5 Secrets That the SUGAR Industry Does Not Want You to Know About

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 30 September 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Today, I’m going to share five secrets that the sugar industry doesn’t want you to know. 1. They hid the truth about the dangers of sugar They quietly paid researchers to cover up a study that connected eating sugar to increasing the risk of heart attacks, other cardiovascular events, and cancer. 2. They made sugar an essential ingredient in food An average person in the US consumes 26 teaspoons of sugar every day. 3. Sugar is subsidized in the United States Tax dollars are paid to farmers to produce sugar. 4. The bliss point This is the optimized amount of sugar to create a delicious effect, which causes a spike in endorphins. This practice trains the mind that to feel pleasure, you need to keep eating sugar. 5. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics establishes food policies This is a group of dietitians who are the most influential over food policy. Unfortunately, they have a close relationship with the ultra-processed food industry. Sugar is composed of fructose and glucose. Glucose is metabolized by all of your cells. But, fructose is only metabolized by the liver. When you consume high amounts of table sugar or high-fructose corn syrup, you’re creating a toxic effect on the liver, similar to alcohol toxicity. When you cut sugar out of the diet, your body replaces it with ketones. Ketones are a super fuel for the body. Cutting out sugar and going on a low-carb diet is not only better for your health, but it will also help shift the market to a healthier one.

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0:00.0	I want to share five secrets that the sugar industry does not want you to know about,
0:06.1	and you probably have never heard about. Number one, they hid the truth about 60 years ago,
0:11.6	and I'm talking about a study that related eating sugar to increasing the risk of heart attacks
0:18.3	and other cardiovascular events and certain types of cancer. And this hiding of the truth actually
0:25.7	occurred even before the tobacco industry hid some of their studies. And what they did is they
0:32.5	quietly paid researchers to cover this up to basically lie. In this study was called the project
0:40.0	259. And what they did is they shift the blame from sugar to fat. Number two, they actually made
0:49.9	sugar an essential ingredient in foods. You know, this is probably why they talk about, you know,
0:56.4	sugar is necessary for your brain because it's the primary source of fuel. So we need sugar,
1:01.0	right? Because it's essential. The sugar industry is a 37 billion dollar industry. And that was
1:07.1	in 2021. I don't know what it is now. They produce over 180 billion metric tons of sugar every
1:16.0	single year. An average person in United States consumes 26 teaspoons every single day. That's
1:24.3	what this is right here. 26 teaspoons. That's a lot of sugar. All right. Number three, sugar is
1:29.7	subsidized in the US. Tax dollars goes to pay these farmers to produce sugar. So basically we pay
1:37.8	double. And when I'm talking about pay, I'm talking about four billion dollars a year and an average
1:42.0	a household of four people pays about 50 dollars a year. This is regardless of whether you eat
1:47.2	sugar or not. You're contributing to the overhead of the production of sugar. Incredible. Why don't
1:54.8	they do that with salad or vegetables? You know, something that's good versus the thing that is
2:01.5	behind so many health problems. The lobbyist group are so powerful. They actually kind of keep
2:09.6	controlled pretty well. All right. The next point, there's something called the bliss point.
2:14.5	It's an optimized amount of sugar to create this delicious effect. If you keep adding sugar
2:22.6	to any ingredient at some point, it's going to be like, and that's too much. I don't like it. So
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