We were late getting Sunday lunch together I was busy doing the dishes and Chris was creating a fabulous stir fry,
All Veggy Sirtfry..Yum!
however lunch was understandably taking a while and I was getting rather peckish. During my cleanup I stumbled upon a cake tin containing leftover cupcakes.
A cake like this tempted me!
I immediately started licking my lips because there was a strawberry yoghurt icing on the cakes and it had been good. That had been two weeks go. Anyways I could not resist.. What surprised me was how the sugar in that icing almost burned me. Since I bought the cakes we have radically changed our diet and I’m trying to avoid store bought baked goods. It was like the sugar content was way too extreme but I only noticed it this time because my taste buds have had a week of getting acclimated to the lower naturally occurring sugar levels in fruit and vegetables. That got me to wondering about what all that extra sugar was doing to me? So I started doing a little research.
According to the US government figures the average American consumes 156 lbs of added sugar per year. Note: this is “added sugar,” ie sugar that is in addition to the naturally occurring sugars in fruits, grains and vegetables.
This recent story; What Eating Too Much Sugar does to your Brain documents a link between excess sugar and both depression and dementia.
Eat Well Live Longer 