Take the Sugar Out of Your Diet.

This is a complete no-brainer. The evidence that added sugar in our diet is harmful is significant. That's particularly important with regard to fructose.

Dr John Yudkin warned us in the 1970's after 20 years of research. He was ignored and discredited, but apparently he wasn't wrong.

Dr Robert Lustig, is the latest researcher to strongly make the case against added sugar in your diet.

Prof. Wayne Potts of the University of Utah, experiments by adding sugar, in small amounts that did not cause obesity, to the diet of mice. "Our experiments provide evidence that added sugar consumed at concentrations currently considered safe, exert dramatic adverse impacts on mammalian health." Dr Potts said that he and his family have taken active steps to reduce the amount of sugar they are consuming.

The Take-Out Diet

The science is getting clearer about added sugar in your diet. Take it out.

There are immense vested interests from both food companies and drug companies, telling you to maintain your consumption of carbohydrates.

The metabolic influence of the food you eat may take 5 to 20 years, before the effect is clearly measurable. This is the difference between food an medicine. Food has a slow influence, while medicines are quick.

It's impossible to do life-long food studies on people. That's why we use mice or rats to study the life-time effect of dietary changes.

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