Sugar Is at the Heart of America’s Health Problems

Americans are increasingly afflicted with chronic obesity and diabetes. While the medical community struggles with how to tackle these problems, it’s becoming clear that the culprit may be an ingredient common to the majority of processed foods.
This time on Financial Sense Newshour, we spoke with Gary Taubes, author of several books, including his latest release, The Case Against Sugar, where he argues that America’s addiction to sweet, processed foods is by far one of the main contributing causes for widespread health problems in the US.
Conventional Thinking Is Incorrect
The conventional thinking on obesity is that we become overweight because we consume more calories than we expend, Taubes stated.
The explanation implies that as populations become more affluent and more appetizing foods are available, and we have less reason to do manual labor or exercise, we therefore develop an issue with caloric imbalance.
‘This is a very nave way to think about a very complex physiological defect akin to a growth defect,’ Taubes said.

This post was published at FinancialSense on 03/17/2017.