Liberation Wellness

It’s hard to believe that a fat-free word such as sugar is highly associated with obesity.  For many, “fat” triggers mental images of butter, eggs, and the loosely attached parts of poultry and meat that are white, squishy and malleable.

Most of us associate sugar with diabetes, but that is just one potential side effect of consuming too much of it.   You should also be concerned with weight gain, energy crashes and developing an unhealthy habit.  What has sugar done for you lately except give you short-term pleasure?  Soda is a prime example.  Twelve ounces of soda contains 150 calories, 41g of carbs and zero fat.   None of those stats triggered any “red flag” signs until I converted 41grams into a meaningful formula I could visualize – and it turns out that 41 grams is equal to 10 teaspoons of sugar!

Diet sodas aren’t any better.  They, too, contain artificial ingredients that your body has no use for.

Please don’t get caught in this sweet fat trap. Your body’s relationship with carbs is simple: use what is needed to fuel the body and store the rest as fat.  The problem with high fructose corn syrup (which is found in just about all processed foods) is that the body metabolizes ALL of it as fat, not using any of it as fuel.  Your body doesn’t know it’s working with sugar, so the normal processing channels aren’t used.

This is the connection between sugar and obesity!

For More Information on Sugar

This is an excellent video entitled The Bitter Truth, which features Dr. Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology.  He explores the damage caused by sugary foods.