Daily Amounts of Sugar and Examples in Foods.
There is an epidemic since after the second world war, that we are kind of aware of but just not fully informed on it to the extent of which its damaging out health's and keeping us in a cycle of addiction. I'm talking of refined sugar that has been added to supermarket foods we are eating daily as the way we started to live changed food wise dramatically after WWII.
It happened when processed meals we first created. Designed for the housewife not to have to cook fresh meals which were consuming a couple of hours each day to prepare - when instead the woman of the house could be at work and have enough time to work a day then come home and still prepare a meal for her family just like a proud wife used to do.
"We must rebuild the country, and women should have the right to work as men do!" - suddenly the workforce of the population was nearly doubled, and the quality of food took a turn for the worse.
Anyway not to go of the track here so I digress - But please go check out this super long documentary split into 4 parts, Here's the first part and it's called Happiness Machines. If you wonder how society became how it is, then you should watch all the parts, its a real eyeopener and answers your question.
This seems expensive visually compared to the cheaper jams available, it is the perfect great example of how food company's are hiding sugar in food that you think are better than the cheaper choices, its tiny compared to the normal size jar and its double the price (I think,I rarely buy food as it can be recycled!).
This jam shown in the picture is a whopping 50% sugar!! Whilst cheaper jam has 25%. In this country, an average Jar of jam/marmalade is weighing say 400g of content. if 30% of this is added sugars then that means that just from a jar of jam, you will eat 133g of refined added sugars that are linked to many illnesses of which will be the subject of another post adding to this series. 133g is the equivalent of 6 days of a female's "ok" amount of added sugars, or 4 days for a male. These numbers can be disputed but I trust on an average from the lowest numbers I came across, all of which were from independent news articles and nothing mainstream. It might not sound much , but this is just one food item that you will eat in the day, even the bread you smear it on - has added sugars inside it. go look!
Healthy Daily Amounts of Added Sugars & Processed Foods.
The main thing to consider here is that the Added Sugars are the main problem causing catastrophic amounts of human deaths on the planet.
Even to learn that 95% of food in supermarkets have been created with added sugars inside of the worse kind available- anyone who wants to see a better future for the humans race should be slightly alarmed and question what they are eating and how this sugar makes its way into the foods were are consuming in everyday life. At the beginning I touched upon the start of "easy to cook" meals, and in the taste tests before mass production everything tasted horrible, and it was just bland.
Its a fact that things "taste better" with sugar in them and so now we see everything that we are eating spiked with dangerous levels of sugar that have had everything good taken away from them being whilst in processing to make us keep eating it.
Have you ever seen an African person's reaction when they see a white person magically pull a whole cooked meal out of an oven? It's something quiet alien to them, because really it is quite mad that we are buying food already made in a factory - which is meant to be for our "benefit of convenience" - but actually the truth is, it's just making everyone very sick because its been spiked with very high levels of sugar at the factory.
Just top be clearer the sugar added to foods is always the refined white one - the worse kind.
Before traveling and never to return, I was also living the Drone Lifestyle of working to exist in society doing the same thing week in and week out. I was cooking for myself since I was 19 and was working a full time job. Luckily my first job "career" was cooking when I left school which gave me an insight into food, of which I would have never learnt anywhere else from education. I still didn't understand though what processed foods actually were but had then soon realized in these last years that I had been eating them everyday - as I was too tired to cook fresh things to eat. The oven was flicked on to preheat, and the freezer held various combinations that could be cooked to complete what looks like a delicious and not so unhealthy meal. I even had frozen vegetables, prepared to just go into hot water!
Lasagna, Pizza, "Toad in the hole", Fries, Onion Rings, Chicken Nuggets, Fish Fingers, Chicken Kiev, Pies - So much frozen foods all and they were always worth buying because of the value for money, and who doesn't want the weekly wage to last as long as it can?!
I learnt that it was cheap enough for me to buy because it had been made in a factory by machines which meant it cost's not much to produce, and then was stuffed with sugar which costs nothing in huge quantity's and they know its addictive side effects will keep you buying the same foods because you "like them". Seriously, get up and go look in your freezer at items and see if they have sugar in them, you will be very shocked!
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You can still be tricked into thinking that to make a stir fry from fresh goods would be healthy, but as soon as you add sweet and sour sauce for example, then you can kiss goodbye to the freshness that was about to be stir fried. Here is a translation for you from the words used to trick you - More Flavor, just means - More Sugar been added at the factory.
After learning by myself about sugar over some years now, I have found an average amount of added sugars that's not healthy to exceed but still we have hardly no other choice than to eat sugar, or the only real choice you do have its to just start eating rice and vegetable and fruit for a dessert. The amount of added sugars are just horrendous, and it should be said as a "Sugar Epidemic", but its one that has become now normal. I'm not joking here, you can eat a big tub of yogurt and it would be over the average said amount of sugar intake, leaving you not able to eat anything else for the day that held any added sugars - that's the extent to how much sugars are in the food we eating.
Some how I'm struggling to write how much sugar is in everything we are eating because its truly unbelievable, and the worst part is that it effect each one of us directly.
Start Looking around the back and not the front!
When we are in the supermarkets for the Bi-weekly shop, we are bedazzled by marketing strategies designed to make us buy a certain product and then the price of course for most people is the end decider. Food in Europe is cheap and in the USA I guess its even cheaper. The processing and then spiking of foods of sugar make its possible for them to be cheap because firstly they are mainly sugar which is very cheap, and secondly the sugar will not make you satisfied and that you will buy more food the next time you go shopping because "there wasn't enough last time and little Johnny boy was always hungry"- oh and a good point not to forget the amount of money the pharmaceutical company's will make from selling you medicine after the added sugar was the ignition for one of multiply illness's.
Start making it more a habit to go see the backside of the can or packet, to see the percentage of sugar amounts contained! this is the start of taking control of your health.
I would love comments below from people who decided to go check the amount of sugar in something's they eat often in the kitchen, and let me know if you worked out your average sugar intake's - I'm surprised im not dead already when I calculate the added sugars I was eating and also adding into hot drinks! All of it was white sugar also!!
Here are the previous parts to this series:
- Part 1 - Sugar and Our Mood
- Part 2 - Sugar and Our Hunger
- Part 3 - Sugar, Slavery and You
- Part 4 - Sugar, The Browner The Better
Smash that Resteem button! Let's decentralize and educate each other if no one else is willing to and go check out the next part The Effects of Sugar - Teeth & Sickness
Big Love & Abundance..
