Post by Master Kim on Nov 15, 2014 23:31:08 GMT -5
Sugar Isn’t Just Making You Fat, It’s Making You Sick
Scientists compiled 8,000 studies about the dark side of America’s favorite sweetener and put all the findings into one user-friendly website.
You never hear anyone say, “I shouldn’t have eaten all those Skittles, they’re totally going straight to my endocrine system.” But based on new evidence from the researchers behind SugarScience.org, sugar might be more of a health risk than more people realize.
Scientists from University of California, San Francisco; University of California, Davis; and Emory University reviewed a combined 8,000 clinical research studies on sugar’s role in the metabolic system, then compiled all their unbiased findings in a user-friendly website, which describes itself as “the unsweetened truth.”
The site’s focus? The areas where the researchers say the medical data is strongest: diabetes, liver disease, and heart disease.
The scientists are no longer simply focusing on the relationship between sugar and obesity—a concept espoused so often that we’ve become numb to its meaning. They’re trying to explicitly tell people that this is a matter of life and death. If you consistently overconsume sugar, your risk of chronic dietary disease will increase significantly.....
Sugar Isn’t Just Making You Fat, It’s Making You Sick - www.takepart.com/article/2014/11/14/sugar-isnt-just-making-you-fat-its-making-you-sick-0?cmpid=foodinc-fb
Scientists compiled 8,000 studies about the dark side of America’s favorite sweetener and put all the findings into one user-friendly website.
You never hear anyone say, “I shouldn’t have eaten all those Skittles, they’re totally going straight to my endocrine system.” But based on new evidence from the researchers behind SugarScience.org, sugar might be more of a health risk than more people realize.
Scientists from University of California, San Francisco; University of California, Davis; and Emory University reviewed a combined 8,000 clinical research studies on sugar’s role in the metabolic system, then compiled all their unbiased findings in a user-friendly website, which describes itself as “the unsweetened truth.”
The site’s focus? The areas where the researchers say the medical data is strongest: diabetes, liver disease, and heart disease.
The scientists are no longer simply focusing on the relationship between sugar and obesity—a concept espoused so often that we’ve become numb to its meaning. They’re trying to explicitly tell people that this is a matter of life and death. If you consistently overconsume sugar, your risk of chronic dietary disease will increase significantly.....
Sugar Isn’t Just Making You Fat, It’s Making You Sick - www.takepart.com/article/2014/11/14/sugar-isnt-just-making-you-fat-its-making-you-sick-0?cmpid=foodinc-fb