
Sugar - Passion or Poison??? - Part 2
In the first part of this article we looked at how sugar consumption can lead to diabetes. In this part I want to show how it can lead to heart disease, high blood pressure and premature ageing. This graph shows how sugar consumption has changed over fifty years and how the consumption of high fructose corn syrup, which causes even more problems than sugar, is on the increase. First of all, though, lets have a brief look at how sugar leads to obesity. Whenever we eat sugar

Sugar - Passion or Poison??? Part 1
Do you watch The Great British Bake Off? Not sure if it’s available in the USA but I hope so because otherwise you are missing out on a great show. I watch it. I love it; I love watching the process (and the pain) of creating, under the pressure of time constraints, all those wonderful looking cakes, biscuits, bread, puddings. I cannot imagine how much sugar is used during the whole series. It must be heading for 1000’s of kilos. I sometimes wonder what happens to all t