Nation,
I have discussed at length how man-made sugars and fats are the real culprits in the majority of the diseases we face as we age like heart disease, cancer, diabetes, dementia, etc. Many people think they are eating low sugar, healthy foods because the food industry goes thru great pangs to use "healthy words" like "natural", "low sugar", etc to get you to buy their products. The bottom line is "sugar" isn't always listed as "sugar" in the ingredients. They use "natural" sounding innocuous names like "Brown Rice Syrup" or "Evaporated Cane Juice" to make them sound healthy. ALL syrups are sugars. Even natural sugars like Honey and Lactose when added to processed food are not as healthy as when they are in their natural state as Organic Honey or Lactose in milk. Here are the 58 legal names for sugars in processed foods:
Agave Nectar
Barley Malt
Beet Sugar
Black Strap Molasses
Brown Rice Syrup
Brown Sugar
Buttered Sugar
Cane Juice Crystals
Cane Juice
Cane Sugar
Caramel
Carob Syrup
Caster Sugar
Coconut Sugar
Corn Sweetner
Corn Syrup
Corn Syrup Solids
Crystalline Fructose
Date Sugar
Demara Sugar
Dextran
Diastatic Malt
Diatase
Ethyl Maltol
Evaporated Cane Juice
Fructose
Fruit Juice Concentrate
Galactose
Glucose
Golden Sugar
Golden Syrup
High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS)
Honey
Invert Sugar
Lactose
Malt Syrup
Maltodextrin
Maltose
Maple Syrup
Molasses Syrup
Mucovado Sugar
Organic Raw Sugar
Oat Syrup
Panela
Panocha
Confectioner's Sugar
Rice Bran Syrup
Sorghum
Sorghum Syrup
Sucrose
Sugar
Syrup
Treacle
Tapioca Syrup
Turbinado Sugar
Yellow Sugar
The bottom line is the age old adage that still holds true - if it is in a bag, box, bottle, plastic container, or any other man-made packaging it is a PROCESSED FOOD regardless of the bullshit marketing they put on the outside. Only food in its natural state is truly wholesome and nutritious and will sustain health.
John
