Sugar Friend or Foe
Sugar : Friend or Foe? ... Not exercising, fatty take out foods, and unsuccessful diets are causes, sure, but, what about sugar? Sucrose, commonly known as table sugar, we know of, but there are many other names for sugar now a days. ... of sugar a year,(1) usually unbeknownst to them. And sugar, as empty calories is probably one of the main causes of being overweight in our society.(3,4,6,8,9,10,11,12) What most people dont realize is sugar, in its common form or further added to, is addictive and acts like a drug in the human body. So, even if a person diets, they are still eating pounds of sugar, usually hidden, and they are so addicted they dont even realize it.(3,6,8,9,10,11,12) Without becoming too scientific (as then I would have to write a book) our bodies get our energy from sugar, glucose, known as blood sugar. ... There is a process to breaking down food for energy, the sugar chain. The further up the sugar chain the food is, the longer your body takes to process it into glucose.