Saturated Fat

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What would you say to the unhealthiest food on the planet?
Trans fat?
Saturated fat?
Salt?
Well, I’d like to tell it's the white stuff we bake with, the brown stuff we sprinkle on our porridge. It's honey. Molasses, maple syrup or the high fructose corn syrup you've heard of, but chemically it's all the same thing and it's in nearly everything we eat - it's sugar. Sugar is now the most hidden poison ever. Believe it or not, the average person in this room consume 40 kilos of sugar per year. That’s 20 bags! It’s destroying our health and we don't even realise it. For our ancestors sugar was only available as fruit at harvest time, which is only a few months in the year and as honey, which was well guarded by the bees. In recent years sugar …show more content…

Quitting sugars is not a diet but a new way of living. The worst thing about sugar is it causes intense craving but there's no need to give up the sweets stuff altogether as there are now great natural alternatives. Stevia is 300 times sweeter than sugar and it’s now even in your coke. Coconut sugar, maple syrup are a two that can also replace sugar.

On a national level there has not yet been any drastic political measures against sugar and this is a shame because if there had been interventions it would lead to major gains for our health, just like it has on the fight against smoking and other poisons. So, even though we are surrounded by it every day, our foods are loaded with it and it’s no surprise the we are eating way too much of it, we must listen to the facts and make healthier choices. Sugar affects our bodies in a powerful way and we are consuming more of it than ever before. It has been a constant companion in our lives but now we know the damaging effects it has on us. If we educate ourselves we will be able to lead healthier and more productive lives as individuals we are given one body to get us from birth to death, let’s put the biggest space possible between those two events and we know, by quitting sugar, life would become a whole lot

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