Is Sugar Good Or Bad

fructose corn syrup, fructose, and sucrose are forms of sugar that are made from different crops such as fruits and plants. The most common sugar coming straight from the sugarcane crop. Is sugar bad? That is the question that has almost been covered up from food producers and other crop sellers. Added sugar may be found in the fast-food world as well as our sweets that we purchase right off the shelf at any convenient stores. Sugar is now being taken to a whole other level being called an addictive drug that lures people into want more almost like a high stake drug bought on the streets except it may even be more dangerous than that. Social justice describes by Doctor Matthew Robinson of Appalachian state university as, “assuring the

Sugar has not always been used to provide a sweeter artificial taste to our foods in America. It is dated back before the time Christopher Columbus settled here in 1493 that the start of planting sugarcane that the Native Americans used Honey as a sweetener, which is a way more healthy option to giving food a new taste. It has been researched and found that in today's day in age 74 percent of foods contain added sugar, which is a 28 percent increase since 1983. The average amount of sugar in soda is 44 grams, which increases your risk of a cardiovascular related disease by 20 percent if consuming an average of a can a day. As stated and found by Ferris Jabr, “The average American consumes anywhere between 150-170 pounds of refined sugars in one year...Less than 100 years ago, the average intake of sugar was only about 4 pounds per year per person.” The uproar in the average sugar intake is taking toll in a negative way as our average sugar count by year in terms of pounds has increased by 146 over one decade. It is not just one simple form of sugar that is involved in this crisis either. We are seeing many more forms of sugar, which are actually worse than straight from the sugarcane such as high-fructose corn syrup. This high-fructose corn syrup is made from corn starch, which starch itself is a chain of glucose. Glucose being a simple sugar. When the corn starch is being broken down into these glucose molecules the end product is the well-known product of corn syrup. The problem with sugar is that it is causing an outbreak in obesity not only in the states but all around the world especially the industrialized countries. With such access to these unhealthy sugars that have been entering our diets without any thought for over thirty years now, the question stands of will food producers ever go back to the way they sweetened food in a more natural