Sugar Is Toxic

[veggiechicken]

You know how to live life to the full, CS!

[Florence Fennel]

I don't like Mars Bars or even chocolate so someone else can eat my share.

and mine

[veggiechicken]

Wonder how many purple (Quality Street or is it Roses) chocolates equal one Mars bar?

[binley100]

wonder how much sugar was in CS's hot choccy..........?

[veggiechicken]

wonder how much sugar was in CS's hot choccy..........?

Don't ask - he'll be soooooo worried!

[Potstubsdustbins]

Well much as I scoffed at the 'tinned tomatoes' scare this is one I have to agree with
especially the 'makes you short tempered and irate' bit

SWMBO has 3 yes 3 sugars in her tea and she does short tempered and irate to perfection.


Colin

[binley100]

I don't have sugar in tea or coffee and can still do short tempered and irate to perfection ......so with respect the don't prove owt.....

[cardiffsteve]

I worried now

[binley100]

and so you should be CS

[veggiechicken]

Well much as I scoffed at the 'tinned tomatoes' scare this is one I have to agree with
especially the 'makes you short tempered and irate' bit

SWMBO has 3 yes 3 sugars in her tea and she does short tempered and irate to perfection.

Colin

Have you thought that it might not be the sugar that's winding her up?

[Potstubsdustbins]

Have you thought that it might not be the sugar that's winding her up?

I can't think what else it could be.

[SarzWix]

I'm trying really hard to do this too. Cut out processed sugars that is. It's bloody hard I tell you, 'specially when the rest of the family aren't that interested in doing it I seem to have developed a bit of an addiction to apples instead, not sure if that's a bad thing or not

[Nicos]

wonder how much sugar was in CS's hot choccy..........?

Yeh!!!.....I just had to go and check didn't I??????
.....standard hot chocolate with no cream = around 21g sugar
( 1 tablespoon=14g sugar)

[chris]

I'm trying really hard to do this too. Cut out processed sugars that is. It's bloody hard I tell you, 'specially when the rest of the family aren't that interested in doing it I seem to have developed a bit of an addiction to apples instead, not sure if that's a bad thing or not

I know someone else the same. It's affected his toilet habbits, but bar that seems to be working. I used to take 3 sugars in my tea, tried going down to 1, just couldn't - it was horrible. Then I tried 2, the same - so after that I just went cold turkey - and it took about 3 years before I started to enjoy tea again.

I don't take sugar in anything now, but on the flip side of the coin I'm disgusting in terms of if I see a packet of biscuits I'll eat the lot, in one go. That's my next thing to sort out!

[Two_Sheds]

That just had to be a Daily Mail story didn't it.

It was a Daily Wail link, but the story isn't new. Pure White & Deadly is 25 years old.

This is another book to read, if you're interested: Sugar Blues and there's Sugar Nation.

We should be eating sugar in its natural forms, like honey and fruit, but it shouldn't be added (in large quantities) to our bread and suchlike. 9 tsp in a Coke, up to 6 tsp in a yogurt.

Cambridge Uni researchers found that the obese people they tested were eating up to 52 tsps of sugar a day.

If you're still reading, and haven't gone off to get a cuppa with three, this is interesting: Would you give your child cocaine?

We noticed that my nephews go absolutely loopy when we give them sweets or fizzy