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