The food manufacturers use all kinds of code names to disguise sugar in your food. They know that sugar tastes really good to the human taste buds and they try to add sugar to as many foods as possible because it will keep you coming back for more. Pretty sneaky, huh? But when you see “sugar” in the list of ingredients in the food you are about to eat, this is referring to what we think of as table sugar. It’s that bright white, powdery sugar that you see at an old-fashioned diner or use for baking. This table sugar looks all pretty and pristine white… and you probably have fond memories about the snow-white, sugar-covered candy you ate when you were a kid… But this sugar is a highly processed chemical.
Without getting into too much of the technical detail about how they process it, it’s basically a super-concentrated carbohydrate. They take out the sucrose (the natural sugar) from hundreds of beets (yes, those little red vegetables that if eaten WHOLE and in their NATURAL state are very good for you)… But they strip away all of the fiber and vitamins and minerals… leaving only the sucrose (sugar) in an isolated form that would never be found in nature.
Now this super-high concentration of sucrose may come from a natural food, but when you throw away all the other components of the beet – then it is no longer a natural food. It is a man-made, processed food. And that’s BEFORE they even add the extra chemicals to bleach it out to that bright white color, and the additives and preservatives they add to it to keep it from spoiling for years.
By the time it reaches the “table sugar” form that we all know and recognize, the sugar has gone through LOTS of different chemical processes. Now how do you think your body responds to this table sugar when you eat it? Right. It’s the same as taking a hit off a crack pipe.Nothing but a pure, chemical high. No nutrients. No vitamins. No nourishment. Only a rush of super-concentrated carbohydrates and toxic chemicals hitting your blood system as soon as you eat it.
Sounds delicious doesn’t it? So now are you beginning to see why sugar makes you gain so much weight so quickly? Think about it… They have taken out the sucrose from who-knows how many of beets… and concentrated all that sugar down into a single serving. In order to get that much sugar in your body’s system at once, you would have to eat A LOT of beets. And even if you WERE to sit down and stuff yourself with beets, you would at least be eating the fiber and the antioxidants and the vitamins and minerals – all that good NUTRITION you get from eating whole, natural foods.But when you eat table sugar, you are only getting the hit of sugar hitting your system… with NO NUTRITION along with it.
When this much sugar hits your system, your blood sugar spikes up way too high… so high that your body becomes desperate to bring your blood sugar levels back down again. And it does this by storing fat. You can see that after years of this behavior, your fat cells will get bigger and bigger and bigger. And then when those fat cells are so big they can’t get any bigger, your body creates MORE fat cells. And table sugar is not the worst offender… the mega foods industry has mainly replaced sugar with even MORE powerful super-sugars like high-fructose corn syrup.
These super-sugars have an even higher glycemic impact (triggers even MORE fat storage). And if you’ll notice that they are putting this in EVERYTHING from sodas, to baked goods, to frozen dinners, to bread, sauces… things that you would never even think that there would be sugar in it. It’s a never ending cycle towards obesity.
When you are craving for sweet foods the next time … think again!
