From the time we're kids we've already developed a preference for the sweet taste of candy, sugary cereals, ice cream, cookies and soda. If given the choice, like that famous experiment with lab rats who were able to either choose to push a button to deliver food or an injection of cocaine, the lab rat hit the cocaine button until it died, we are choosing daily to set ourselves up for long term disease, health problems, and obesity from as early as a toddler. Heck, they've discovered heavy added sugar in infant formula, so many of us were set up from birth for the preference. The adulteration of our palettes and taste buds.
Sugar is being added to infant and toddler formula and foods setting a newborn up for a lifetime preference for the sweet poison we've paid little attention to because we're addicted to sweet.
High Sugar Content in Packaged Toddler and Baby Food Products
ScienceDaily (June 28, 2010) — Fifty three percent of food products specifically targeted to babies and toddlers in Canadian grocery stores have an excessive proportion -- more than 20 per cent -- of calories coming from sugar, according to a new study by University of Calgary professor Charlene Elliott.
We're being played again, sleight of hand tricks by the food industry promoting low fat and fat free on their products when they've increased the sugar content in a variety of forms to make the product palette pleasing because removing fat is to remove flavor.
What we personally add to coffee, tea or cereal is nothing however compared to the hidden addition of sugar in nearly every food product you eat. Sodas and sports drinks being the biggest problems for their ability to enter the blood stream rapidly. When we sip a Coke all day long we're making ourselves efficient fat storers, yet even diet drinks play into this because the artificial sweetners, not without their own health risks I won't go into here, are so ultra sweet, they desensitize our palate to want higher levels of sugar or sweetness in other foods. Because we've been indoctrinated into the sugar=love mentality, we equate the flavor with comfort and wholesomeness, like Mom's Apple Pie or the good ol Ice Cream Truck on your street on a hot summer day. We grow up on watching Saturday morning cartoons filled with ads about breakfast cereals, all honey coated, sugar coated, chocolate flavored with some character you can probably see in your head right now. Count Chocula, Tucan Sam, The Silly Rabbit, Trix are for Kids... Diggum Frog , Sugar Bear... this is no mistake, these are multimillion dollar campaigns that work! We begged our moms for sugar pops, sugar smacks, cap'n crunch and all the rest. Now is it any wonder American's are uniquely the fattest humans on the planet and the top causes of death in the US are the only ones in the world that can be directly related to sugar?
Because we are starting to become aware of this issue, sugar being more deadly than smoking in its far reaching disease causing ability the marketing minds are figuring out how to work acceptance back into our heads to stop the trend of sugar awareness by changing names of offending additives like high fructose corn syrup. Dr. Mercola points this out here.
http://thevreelandclinic.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/see-the-amazing-statistics-on-sugar-consumption-in-the-u-s/
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