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“Sugar is now the most ubiquitous foodstuff worldwide, and has been added to virtually every processed food, limiting consumer choice and the ability to avoid it. Approximately 80 percent of the 600,000 consumer packaged foods in the United States have added caloric sweeteners.”
― Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease
― Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease
“Insulin resistance is an important concept, but it is very less talked about or ignored. Insulin resistance is the starting point for all chronic diseases in our body.”
― Added Sugars-The Slow Poison
― Added Sugars-The Slow Poison
“An average American child consumes 17 TEASPOONS OF ADDED SUGAR EVERY DAY disguised in the form of Breakfast cereals, Sodas, energy bars, energy drinks, sweetened yogurts, salad dressing, Tomato ketchups.”
― Added Sugars-The Slow Poison
― Added Sugars-The Slow Poison
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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“Barry Popkin of the University of North Carolina states that of the six hundred thousand food items for sale in the United States, 80 percent are laced with added sugar. Ninety percent of the food produced in the United States is sold to you by a total of ten conglomerates—Coca-Cola, ConAgra, Dole, General Mills, Hormel, Kraft, Nestle, Pepsico, Procter and Gamble, and Unilever.”
― Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease
― Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease
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