There are many reliable nutritional reports listing the best and worst foods a person can buy and consume.  The glaring commonality found among the worst food lists is that they all have refined sugar being by far the worst item.  Sugar is not only the worst, but also the most deceptive product, because sugary products are usually made and advertised to look and smell compelling. 

Frequently listed among the worst foods items are doughnuts, French fries, and sodas.  Each have a number of poor health issues, but the added sugar is the most overwhelming bad ingredient.  Doughnuts are all about sugar, yielding 200 to 300 deceptive calories, plus it is associated with breakfast foods, which causes people to experience an energy crash, thereby making you hungrier sooner than normal.  Fried anything is a serious health crippler, but deceptively, French fries get that golden brown color by first dipping the raw potato in sugar. 

Sodas average 10 teaspoons of added refined sugar and 150 calories per 12-ounce can.  The deception is in the labeling that will show the amount of added sugar by grams.  You need to divide that number by 4 (each teaspoon of sugar is equal to 4 g) to convert it to teaspoons.  For example, if sugars are listed as 12 g [rams], you are getting 3 teaspoons of sugar per serving.  When you routinely drink soda you run a high risk of contracting joint pain, osteoporosis, obesity, tooth decay and heart disease. 

In addition, drinking sugar suppresses the appetite for healthy foods, which pave the way for nutritional deficiencies.  Furthermore, they are loaded with phosphoric acid, an extremely acidic substance that very effectively flushes much-needed minerals (such as calcium, magnesium and zinc) out of the body. The diet sodas have artificial sweeteners like aspartame and acesulfame that are linked to neurological problems from headaches, seizures and cancer. 

The renowned television doctor and heart surgeon, Dr. Oz says that when you eat or drink sugar “the sudden energy surge your body experiences are followed by an insulin surge that rapidly drops the blood sugar level - so two hours later, you feel famished and tired.”  Dr. Oz recommends that we replace simple carbohydrates with complex ones so the absorption is more controlled and you experience long-term fullness.

The worst part of eating sugar is how it depletes the body's own nutrient reserves, while contributing to weight gain, dental carries, blood sugar imbalances, and suppression of the immune system.  For those who care about looking old then you should also know that all added sugar consumption is so deceptive that it tends to stick to the body’s proteins to form nonfunctional hybrid molecules, which accelerate the aging process and tissue destruction.

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Dean Jones is a marketing strategist with Southland Partnership Corporation and such articles stem from too many enterprises taking advantage of our food and water supply.