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By Gundhramns Hammer
November 9, 2013
Sugar (Sanskrit sharkara = candied or ground sugar), a substance extracted from sugarcane (chiefly Saccharum officinarum) has played an important role in man´s history. It has been behind the rise and fall of empires, the birth of merchant dynasties, rampant contraband, pirates and corsaries´ greed and the slave trade in the past.
The importance of this saccharide has not slackened off yet. It is even bigger now. It is a grand queen. The global sugar manufacturing industry is certainly a multibillion business.
But there is a dark side to sugar, just as it had it in the past. Right now in the XXI century, the excessive consumption of sugar is one of the chief agents causing a cascade of human ailments and diseases around the world.
As a matter of fact, according to some experts, excessive sugar consumption is the epicentre of an obesity epidemic in "developed" and "undeveloped" nations.
Obese people is the trading mark of anyone who can afford to stuff himself with sweets, soda pop and junk food. There is plenty of human adipose tissue around. So much so that if properly tapped, human fat could become a fountain of unsustainable "sustainable" energy, a source of biofuel.
Sugar is the in thing in the XXI century. People cannot pass a day without having sugar. People go nuts without a dose of sugar. Some people even kill to get a cup of sugar. And lots of people die because of sugar.
People are addicted to sugar everywhere. Avena et al. (2008) indicactes that sugar is "noteworthy as a substance that releases opioids and dopamine and thus might be expected to have addictive potential" in the brain. In other words, sugar is a drug. And it is legal.
But there is a dark side to sugar, just as it had it in the past. Right now in the XXI century, the excessive consumption of sugar is one of the chief agents causing a cascade of human ailments and diseases around the world.
As a matter of fact, according to some experts, excessive sugar consumption is the epicentre of an obesity epidemic in "developed" and "undeveloped" nations.
Obese people is the trading mark of anyone who can afford to stuff himself with sweets, soda pop and junk food. There is plenty of human adipose tissue around. So much so that if properly tapped, human fat could become a fountain of unsustainable "sustainable" energy, a source of biofuel.
Sugar is the in thing in the XXI century. People cannot pass a day without having sugar. People go nuts without a dose of sugar. Some people even kill to get a cup of sugar. And lots of people die because of sugar.
People are addicted to sugar everywhere. Avena et al. (2008) indicactes that sugar is "noteworthy as a substance that releases opioids and dopamine and thus might be expected to have addictive potential" in the brain. In other words, sugar is a drug. And it is legal.
Sugar + additives have made humans (Homo insapiens) irritable, lazy, batty and sick. Humans are having a slow and quiet sugared death, a sweet departure for this Valley of Tears (Video 1).
Have you had your sugar today?
Go easy on her or she might screw up your life. What is left of it, anyway. After all, we are all tombstonebound.
References
Avena N. M., Rada P. & Hoebel B. G. (2008). Evidence of sugar addiction: Behavioral and neurochemical effects of intermittent, excessive sugar intake. Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev., 32 (1): 20-39.
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