And that’s good. Because it’s time to turn the ship around and sail for healthier shores. It’s time to give your body the food it was designed to thrive on. The Truth About Carbs If you’re like most people today, you probably think all carbohydrates are bad given the fear instilled in us by super popular diets like the Atkins Diet.
Just How Much Sugar Are You Eating Anyway Believe it or not, the average person consumes 115 to 160 pounds of sugar per year! And according to a recent study, kids today eat as much as 45 teaspoons a day! How is it possible to eat that much sugar? Because it’s in almost everything you eat .
If any of this food gets into the bloodstream, it can cause your immune system to go into action, fighting off this “foreign” substance.
And the more addicted you become to sugar, the more likely it is that you’ll reach for their product. Far-fetched? Not at all . . . here are some surprising sugar facts . . . A small bottle of orange juice has 10.5 teaspoons of sugar. Up to 50% of the ingredients of breakfast cereals are made up of sugar. An innocent bowl of tomato soup can contain 8 teaspoons of sugar. A 2/3 cup of fruit-flavored yogurt is loaded with 7 teaspoons of sugar. Other sugar-containing foods include white flour, commercial vegetables oils, hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated vegetables oils, MSG, and canned and bottled juice.
The chain reaction continues . . . when minerals decrease because your body is out of balance, critical enzymes are unable to do their job, which means food is not digested properly.
By the way, do you know how much sugar health authorities recommend as an absolute maximum limit per day? Only 10 teaspoons.
. . including foods that are NOT sweet. That’s right. Open your food pantry and pull out the peanut butter, pasta sauces, canned vegetables, boxed dinners .
. . even table salt! All of these have sugar and not because it’s required but rather because the food companies know you’re addicted to it.
(There goes that daily cup of orange juice.) When you’re done, you’ll probably be looking at a very bare cupboard.
That means your immune system is busy fighting elsewhere when it’s needed to ward off diseases. All of this from just two teaspoons of sugar. Just imagine the chaos when you give in to a craving for cookies or ice cream or doughnuts. If you consider that you may be swallowing the recipe for everything from diabetes to kidney stones, yeast infections, headaches, arthritis or allergies, you might turn down that slice of chocolate cream pie.