It’s white, powdery and gives you a high – a rush of energy to accomplish anything. It’s legal and it’s in practically everything North Americans consume. What is it? It’s sugar, an anti-food I like to call “the White Poison.”
Read up on sugar and then remember what you discover, because sugar will kill you, much like its illegal doppelgänger cocaine. Sugar will leave you strung out, but also fat and injecting yourself with insulin to combat diabetes.
Check out some of my favorite resources on the dangers of sugar:
Sugar Blues, by William Dufty
Suicide by Sugar: A Startling Look at Our #1 National Addiction, by Nancy Appleton
People can’t leave sugar alone because they’re addicted. In fact, most people today are sugar addicts – high on the sweet, delicious taste of this substance. Sugar addicts will do anything to get their fix – searching coworkers’ offices for candy, scrounging for loose change to buy Coke from the vending machine, causing scenes when there is no sugar or sweetener available for their afternoon coffee. The more sugar an addict has, the more sugar he/she needs, until it spirals out of control into obesity, diabetes, chronic headaches, migraines, insomnia, ADD and ADHD, anxiety, nervousness and hosts of other health problems. Sugar should be locked up with cocaine as its cellmate, yet sugar is still legal.
Have I scared you? Good! Get sugar out of your diet today if it’s the only thing you do. Don’t even put it in your coffee or tea. Your taste buds will learn to live without it. In fact, once they get used to a sugar-free diet, they will reject sugar if you were to ever put it in your mouth again.
