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The saying can be improved dramatically by prepending one word: added. There's absolutely NO health benefit to having any added sugar in food products. Manufa
by tejohnso 5y ago
The saying can be improved dramatically by prepending one word: added.
There's absolutely NO health benefit to having any added sugar in food products.
Manufacturers know that it is harmful, they know that they are encouraging addiction, and they know that consumers are suffering as a result. And then there's the advertising, especially to children. Ninety percent of the breakfast aisles in most grocery stores should absolutely be illegal and people should be ashamed to be poisoning their children with products like these[1].
It's this combination of addiction, harmfulness, and advertising that are so similar to the cigarette industry.
[1]: https://www.metroparent.com/parenting/advice/kids-cereals-sugar/ https://www.metroparent.com/parenting/advice/kids-cereals-su...
- delusional 5y ago> There's absolutely NO health benefit to having any added sugar in food products. That's a better take, to be sure. I haven't done the research, but I feel confident in agreeing that there are no health benefits to added sugar. Much like there are no health benefits to smoking. At that point it becomes too nuanced of a subject for the "our generations smoking" argument though. It makes no difference to my body if the fructose in my juice came from the apple that was juiced, or if it was added later on. It doesn't matter if the fructose I added to my chocolate cake came from orange juice or HFCS. So it becomes an argument of quantity, with the argument being that there's too must sugar in processed foodstuffs. And hey, I agree. I think that's a fine argument to make, but it's miles away from the "any amount is bad, and if you do it, it says something bad about your character" that we've used against smoking.