Is sugar worst than cocaine?

@Deadcutie It's slow poison for sure. There are 3 times the number of diabetics in the USA than there were 15-20 years ago.

@cherokeepatti not just that, but I'm of the oppinion that high sugar, not high fat that causes heart disease..

@Deadcutie the right kind of fat is healthy. The food pyramid that the FDA has promoted since the 1970's is not a healthy diet, people with diabetes don't do good on it even with whole grains...I know 4 people who have followed a low carb diet and got to go off their Metformin for diabetes because a low-carb diet lowers their blood sugar levels.

@cherokeepatti I was watching a Adam ruins everything show on diets, and apparently it was the sugar industry that promoted and blamed high fat diets as culprits, quite successfuly

@Deadcutie They must have bribed the hell out of the FDA. Yeah everything promoted as low-fat or fat-free had added sugar and carbs, people started gaining weight and more diabetes.

@cherokeepatti yes exactly how they put it. Fatfree items tasted terrible and sugar was added to offset the taste.. not only higher diabetes, but heart disease increased as well

@Deadcutie Increased an entire generation's taste for sugar too...most brands of spaghetti sauce became so sweet I couldn't stand the flavor and would make my own or do without if I didn't have time. Bread is too sweet too.

@cherokeepatti everything has sugar nowadays... I also believe things like corn syrup and high over processed foods with chemical ingredients account for the high increase of cancers

@Deadcutie I have read that sugar cane, corn, and sugar beets all have been genetically modified to accept a good dousing of Round-up spray on them, plant them closer together for bigger yields because they can use that spray to kill the weeds. No wonder there's more cancer. And they get sweetener from all 3 of those.