37 Sugar: A Trick or a Treat?

Health Currents Radio

Sugar by any other name is, sugar. Are you reading your labels? If you do, you might notice so many different names for the sweet stuff, it makes you dizzy! Here is a partial list: buttered syrup, cane-juice crystals, cane sugar, corn syrup, dextran, dextrose, ethyl maltol, fructose, fruit juice concentrate, glucose, high-fructose corn syrup, lactose, maltodextrin, sorbitol, sucrose, or organic evaporated cane juice. Today we talk all about sugar, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and other metabolic disorders caused by our over consumption of the sweet stuff, with Wolfram Alderson, Executive Director of Robert Lustig‘s institute for Responsible Foods. We are just in time for Halloween, so you might want to rethink grabbing that big bag of candy to add to a child’s trick or treat bags. Could it be, that sugar is killing us, slowly? Listen in and learn more how you can change your health, and the world we live in.