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• Sugar – Sweet With a Bitter Aftertaste.

  1 November, 2013

  A Report from the Credit Suisse Research Institute.

  A couple of interesting points from the Credit Swiss Research Institute research paper that came with this video was.

  1. There is not one single bit of research that shows sugar is good for you.

  2. Ingesting a beverage did not change how many calories people ingested during the subsequent meal, or in the following 24 hours. When a solid food was given, the were lass calories consumed in the subsequent meal and in the following 24 hours. Suggesting that calories from liquid nutrition were somehow processed differently and therefore added on to the total calories consumed.

  3. Globally, 35% of adults are considered overweight and 12% of all adults are obese 6. The rates of obesity increased from 5% for men and 8% for women in 1980 to 10% of men and 14% of women in 2008. It is now estimated that 7 205 million men and 297 million women over the age of 20 are obese, or more than half a billion adults worldwide.

  4. The direct cost of managing obesity-related conditions has been estimated to be around USD 190 billion in the USA alone. There are also indirect costs related to issues such as increased absenteeism, increased disability and increased premature mortality that have been estimated to add as much as USD 66 billion in additional costs in the USA.

  5. The extensive lobbying power of the sugar industry is legendary (it is often referred to as the second most political commodity in the world – after oil). The industry is a huge employer across the globe (there are 15 million cane growers in China, and 350,000 beet growers in Europe). Politicians are very sensitive to protecting these businesses, and tailor regimes to do exactly that.

  6.Natural fruit juices and fruit juices derived from concentrate do not fare much better than full-calorie sodas when looking at this issue from a health perspective.

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