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Everything you need to know about added sugars (and how to avoid them) - Popular Science
A guide to cutting out the least healthy part of your diet.
You should already be avoiding added sugars—but you’re probably not. Whoops.
With all the guidelines on what you should and shouldn’t eat floating around, it’s easy to overlook a few. Most of them seem like nonsense anyway. But avoiding added sugar is one that’s actually important.
Americans consume massive quantities of sugar, much of it in soda and candy, and it’s contributing to the rising rates of obesity. Sugar is delicious, there’s no doubt about it. But it’s also terrible for you. It triggers huge spikes in your blood sugar, prompting your body to store all that excess energy as fat, and eventually desensitizing your pancreas such that it can’t produce insulin in proper quantities (as is the case in people with type II diabetes).
A guide to cutting out the least healthy part of your diet.
You should already be avoiding added sugars—but you’re probably not. Whoops.
With all the guidelines on what you should and shouldn’t eat floating around, it’s easy to overlook a few. Most of them seem like nonsense anyway. But avoiding added sugar is one that’s actually important.
Americans consume massive quantities of sugar, much of it in soda and candy, and it’s contributing to the rising rates of obesity. Sugar is delicious, there’s no doubt about it. But it’s also terrible for you. It triggers huge spikes in your blood sugar, prompting your body to store all that excess energy as fat, and eventually desensitizing your pancreas such that it can’t produce insulin in proper quantities (as is the case in people with type II diabetes).