BY JOYCE WONG JIN YI
We have been brainwashed into thinking dietary fat causes heart disease and obesity. Sugar is the real culprit behind most of the common diseases in society right now.
Sugar speeds up the ageing process in cells, including the neurons in your brain, leading to an increased risk of dementia. It damages the liver as well. Sugar causes high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and high triglycerides. It spurs inflammation, accelerates weight gain, sets the stage for heart disease and stroke, and contributes to cancer and Alzheimer’s.
We definitely love sugar. Because our brains are programmed to love sugar. Almost 20% of our daily calories come from sugary beverages such as soft drinks, juices sweetened coffee and tea, cakes, pies, biscuits, cookies, breakfast cereals, chocolate milk, fruit, yoghurt and many more.
I know we don’t intentionally add sugar to our daily diet, but food companies add sugar to the food product. Many of us have allowed the food industry to hijack our kitchens and let the food industry poison us for profit. I am a food scientist trained to produce food in the factory to attract customers to continue buying processed food.
