You are an addict, and you don’t even know it.
As you settle down to enjoy your favorite cereal, coffee drink, and maybe a piece of toast to top off your breakfast, consider the ingredients that meal contains. I mean in my mind most of the major food groups are checked off...right? You’ve got grains, dairy, the cereal looks like fruit, and coffee boosts your energy, so we’ll say that counts as protein. You have grown up in a society that blinds you from the reality of what you are eating, versus what you actually need to be putting your body. You are brainwashed to assume that fast food restaurants and food packaging companies have your best interests in mind, and are doing all they can to take care of you and your health when it comes to …show more content…
Normally a hamburger bun wouldn’t pop up on your radar as an unhealthy food choice. And I don’t see why it would. A bun should be made of grains, it’s not sweet, it is more of a savory food, which leads you to the assumption that there wouldn’t be any sugar. However, McDonald’s released a statement announcing that they have, “plans to remove high-fructose corn syrup from its buns and replace it with sugar, as ‘part of its drive to target increasingly health-conscious consumers,’” (motherjones.com). Motherjones.com also points out that sugar and high fructose corn syrup, chemically arent that different. And when you finally put all of the ingredients together to make the hamburger, “A Quarter Pounder delivers about 40 percent of the recommended daily maximum sugar intake.” (motherjones.com)
Sugars hide in weird, unexpected places. Most of the time we as a society focus on fast food as being the biggest instigator of our sugar cravings, but what we don’t realize how often the “healthy” food we eat at home, still has sugar in it. The sauces and dressings we put on our chicken, or salads, the granola and yogurt we eat when we want a “healthy” snack, all contain high amounts of sugar (shape.com). Even after a workout when you go grab your protein powder, you aren’t just loading your body with protein, you are also chugging sugar. …show more content…
“Researchers found that people whose diet is 10 to 25 percent added sugars are 30 percent more likely to die from cardiovascular disease. If your sugar intake is more than 25 percent of your diet, your risk is tripled.” (shape.com) The long term effects of consuming too much sugar in your lifetime are more dangerous than you know. That sweet high you get from the release of dopamine when you eat sugar is actually pushing you into a deep dark pit of cardiovascular complications, higher risk of obesity, and Type 2 Diabetes (mercola.com). But the scariest part of all of this, is even if you turn your head to the consequences by eating all the sugar you want and acting like you don’t care, is that this is the example the next generation is going to follow. By looking the other way, you are ignoring the fact that,” Childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents in the past 30 years.” according to the Center of Disease Control and
As you settle down to enjoy your favorite cereal, coffee drink, and maybe a piece of toast to top off your breakfast, consider the ingredients that meal contains. I mean in my mind most of the major food groups are checked off...right? You’ve got grains, dairy, the cereal looks like fruit, and coffee boosts your energy, so we’ll say that counts as protein. You have grown up in a society that blinds you from the reality of what you are eating, versus what you actually need to be putting your body. You are brainwashed to assume that fast food restaurants and food packaging companies have your best interests in mind, and are doing all they can to take care of you and your health when it comes to …show more content…
Normally a hamburger bun wouldn’t pop up on your radar as an unhealthy food choice. And I don’t see why it would. A bun should be made of grains, it’s not sweet, it is more of a savory food, which leads you to the assumption that there wouldn’t be any sugar. However, McDonald’s released a statement announcing that they have, “plans to remove high-fructose corn syrup from its buns and replace it with sugar, as ‘part of its drive to target increasingly health-conscious consumers,’” (motherjones.com). Motherjones.com also points out that sugar and high fructose corn syrup, chemically arent that different. And when you finally put all of the ingredients together to make the hamburger, “A Quarter Pounder delivers about 40 percent of the recommended daily maximum sugar intake.” (motherjones.com)
Sugars hide in weird, unexpected places. Most of the time we as a society focus on fast food as being the biggest instigator of our sugar cravings, but what we don’t realize how often the “healthy” food we eat at home, still has sugar in it. The sauces and dressings we put on our chicken, or salads, the granola and yogurt we eat when we want a “healthy” snack, all contain high amounts of sugar (shape.com). Even after a workout when you go grab your protein powder, you aren’t just loading your body with protein, you are also chugging sugar. …show more content…
“Researchers found that people whose diet is 10 to 25 percent added sugars are 30 percent more likely to die from cardiovascular disease. If your sugar intake is more than 25 percent of your diet, your risk is tripled.” (shape.com) The long term effects of consuming too much sugar in your lifetime are more dangerous than you know. That sweet high you get from the release of dopamine when you eat sugar is actually pushing you into a deep dark pit of cardiovascular complications, higher risk of obesity, and Type 2 Diabetes (mercola.com). But the scariest part of all of this, is even if you turn your head to the consequences by eating all the sugar you want and acting like you don’t care, is that this is the example the next generation is going to follow. By looking the other way, you are ignoring the fact that,” Childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents in the past 30 years.” according to the Center of Disease Control and