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Bluelighter
- wikipedia
Now i havn't exactly read this book, but learning about it did prompt me to take a closer look into the history of refined sugar production and consumption, and its relationship to western society and this particular societies health issues.
I say it like that because it seems before the 1900's cancer was unheard of, and when you compare the average amounts of cancer, premature death(caused by health complications) in the west, to places like Sardinia in Italy or Okinawa in Japan, who dont consume sugar like we do, you find these places and even alot of eastern societies have hugely less health problems than we do and a much higher level of centenarians.
Before i get right into my talk about refined sugar, i want you all to take a quick look at this TED lecture, it isn't exactly directly related to my thread, but it is insanely interesting none the less and highlights alot of why our society is organised in the wrong fasion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-jk9ni4XWk
Now into the refined sugar discussion..
The original page and list of sources can be found here
Keeping this in mind, i also want to bring something else to the readers mind, and that is the negative effects of consuming coca cola, pespi ect, all them bullshit soda, fizzy, soft drinks that are consumed in the millions each day by the western world.
Original page can be found here
Our refined sugar consumption, along with our lack of adequete hydration, over consumption of soda drinks, poor lifestyle, culture of excess seem to have created the perfect environment for big companies to make a alot of money at our expense.
You never see this kind of shit being taught in schools or shown on tv, because the sugar companies want you to keep buying their product, the pharma and dentist companies want you to keep fucking up your teeth.
Or is it all total bullshit? Thats the point of this thread is to gather everyones opinions and what have you, and conjur up some form of discussion and or debate reguarding our over consumption of "bad" foods and poor lifestyle/culture.
Also i'm aware of the presense of sugars in fruit and what not, but i think there is a huge difference consuming the empty calories of refined sugar and bullshit heat treated honey, than eating good fruit and raw honey.
What does everyone else think? By the way, i dont exactly personally 100% beleive all of these claims although i'm quickly starting to, this isnt a 'omg all who eat sugar are going to hell, do as i say!' thread, i'm not trying to sway anyones beleifs or opinions, just trying to initiate some discussion and debate reguarding the topics i've presented you fine people.
Cheers for reading. (picture an aussie fella smiling and giving you a thumbs up as he says that)
) I searched this forum for this very topic earlier today. I had cut down on my sugar intake in the last few months and within the past few days relapsed majorly. It got me thinking why I had stopped eating sugar in the first place. Most of the changes in my diet are intuitive but I tend to relapse unless I have some intellectual/scientific basis as support. I found this post about the addictive properties of sugar. 
. It is just common sense that sugar is a poor nutritional choice. What I take offence to is bullshit pseudo scientific rhetoric that was sprouted in your first post.
