Yes, yes, we've all heard that sugar is bad for you. It's easy to nod your head when you hear someone say "sugar is bad for your health". It's just common knowledge. But if nearly everyone knows that sugar is bad for you to some extent, than why does more than 75% percent of our population still eat their own body weight (or more) of pounds of sugar every year. After all, if you asked every obese person you meet, or disease patient you meet, if sugar is bad, they will most likely say yes. Incidentally, most of these people don't even understand the strong correlation between weight gain and sugar.
There are many different answers to this question because different people continue to eat sugar for different reasons, but I will try to nail down a couple of possibilities for why we continue to eat dangerous refined sugar when we know it is dangerous to eat. One reason is that our standards of how bad refined sugar is, is often watered down. Many people simple hear and believe that sugar is simply bad for your teeth, and then they end there as if that's all there is wrong with sugar. And it is very true, sugar is very bad for your teeth, but that is only one dangerous effect of a whole host of dangerous effects. Sugar doesn't simply rot your teeth: it robs calcium from your bones (destroying your bones from the inside), prevents the body from absorbing the maximum amount of nutrients it can absorb from food, increases likelihood of birth defects, encourages premature aging, causes diseases. I mean you name it! Sugar destroys your health from the bottom up.
Another huge reason why refined sugar is massively epidemic in our country is that it is everywhere! I probably don't even have to try to convince you that sugar is around virtually every corner on every street, because you observe it in everyday life. Walk into a college and you'll see vending machines for soda and sugary snacks. Take a walk around the city and a doughnut shop or fast food restaurant is nearly always within view. Even in the rural area where I live, there's even soda vending machines at the boat rental places and gas stations. Surely most people do want to eat healthier subconsciously, but it gets a little hard when everywhere you go, there's refined sugar near you as if its a mad stalker. No wonder why people love sugar too much these days!
Those are some pretty straight forward facts about sugar. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that sugar is in fact very bad for your health, and that there is refined sugar on every block of the street. So what can we do to stop this epidemic and create a nation of citizens with vibrant health, clear thinking, and abundant energy? It all starts in the community. In everyday conversations with friends, family, and neighbors, try to educate them in an friendly way about the dangerous effects of sugar. Be a friend to them and encourage them to live a healthier lifestyle. The United States is nothing more than a network of communities stretched from coast to coast. If one person (or more) could start a health revolution in every community across the country, our country would experience a radical change in its health, and we will thrive as a nation with fewer diseases and fatalities due to a a poor diet and lifestyle.
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