It reminded me of the song: “Sugar in the morning, sugar in the evening, sugar at suppertime, be my little sugar and love me all the time” by The McGuire Sisters 1958.
The announcement to introduce a sugar tax on sugary drinks will not solve our children’s (or adult’s) obesity problem. Sugar is the main component in so many of our foods. It is being drip fed into us, often unknowingly, in so many different ways. It is eight times more addictive than cocaine.
When we eat sugar, our body is designed to only allow a small amount of sugar in the bloodstream at any one time — about 1-2 teaspoonfuls. If we eat more than this, the hormone “insulin” is produced to transport this sugar out of the bloodstream. This sugar, through several mechanisms, gets converted into fat, visibly around the waist, or invisibly around our organs [Eat. Nourish. Glow. by Amelia Freer].
Sugar in food: cakes, sweets, biscuits, breakfast cereals, pasta sauces, salad dressings, wine, fizzy drinks, fruit juices, syrupy coffee at Starbucks or Costas Coffee, tea, coffee, etc. Government should rethink current proposal and introduce sugar tax on a wider range of products.
Nagindas Khajuria
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