For decades, scientists slammed the research showing that sugar is making us sick. And the people (like Sarah) who brought it into focus.
As the harmful effects of sugar become more and more indisputable, here’s our mate Peter FitzSimons on why you really don’t need to be a scientist to realise the sweet stuff is no good.
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Why, exactly, would companies manufacturing sugary products be sponsoring something like the Dietitians Association of Australia and the Australian Heart Foundation?
Do you really think it’s just because they want to get the message out there that everyone should be eating healthily?
Sugar-funded science.
Take a look at the next story purporting to give you the good oil [on your health].
Now see how often the upshot of the story, subtle or otherwise, is that it really is okay to consume sugar, and those of us who waffle on about the dangers of it should just eat waffles soaked with syrup as they do, and there is no problem.
[Editor’s note: while many groups such as the DAA and AHF have made progress around their sugar messaging recently, the relationships between public health bodies and the sugar industry are still very problematic.]
Become the message.
If you can see this as clearly as I do, it will make you doubly determined, as your own body will be the best advertisement possible in helping to lead our whole population back to health.
Yes, seeing as you ask, I do expect this book to take flak from that broad [sugar] lobby, just as David Gillespie, Robert Lustig, Sarah Wilson and all the rest have come under fire as the sugar lobby tries to poke holes in their credentials or lack thereof. And more particularly their science.
Well, they’re in for a nice surprise when they try to attack my credentials.
I don’t have any credentials! Attack that, you mongrels!
What I can point to is that I have lost 45 kilos by getting my head around the basic principles that the anti-sugar brigade espouse, and embracing those principles in my selection of what I do and don’t put in my mouth.
The five obvious outcomes of radically cutting your sugar intake.
- First, your level of hunger will drop.
- Second, you will eat less.
- Third, with fewer calories coming in through sugar, and less overall, you will lose weight.
- Fourth, you are likely to have a healthier liver, prevent diabetes and heart attacks.
- Fifth, and most importantly, you will be healthier!
- And the problem would be what, exactly, Officer? What is not to like about those outcomes?
Quit sugar and you’ll naturally quit processed crap.
And as to all the hand-wringing over the idea that by demonising sugar we give a free pass to all the other baddies out there, I call bullsh*t.
For starters, if you avoid sugar by steering away from processed foods, the other baddies disappear too, as they are found in the same foods.
You can find out for about Peter FitzSimons’ sugar-quitting journey
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