Americans eat a lot of sugar, we eat 150 pounds of sugar per year. People seem to hate High Fructose corn syrup, but both table sugar and HF-CS both contain fructose. Fructose is a complex carbohydrate. We are evolved to love fructose because when humans lived in the wild, we had to eat a lot of fruits for energy.
Also data shows that the more sugar you eat, your risk of heart disease, obesity, and some think that it also increases the chance of cancer. If there is a small tumor in the body, the tumor takes in glucose, and grows.
Eating sugar also fires the reward systems in our brains, similar to drugs like cocaine. Sugar should be eaten very lightly.
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