The Dictionary.com definition of the word, emperor is, “a sovereign ruler of great power and rank, especially one ruling an empire”. In the American food industry, sugar rules and can loosely be described as an emperor in how it is an added ingredient in large quantities to a horrendously large amount of food that we consume every day.
Not only is it an ever-present food product in the American diet, its tentacles have infiltrated other countries food systems like a foreign invader, setting up new territories to infest the meal times of denizens of people worldwide. Just like the past colonial empires took the resources of the lands and people they conquered and left them defeated, ill and many were murdered and died, in a like manner, The Sugar Emperor has left and is leaving chronic illnesses, injuries, deaths and destructions in its wake Heart failure, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, strokes, vascular disease, kidney failure, diabetes along with amputations are the destructive effects of over consuming sugar.
Added sugar is heavily saturated in breakfast cereals, syrups, jellies and jams, barbecue sauces, spaghetti sauces salad dressings, fast food restaurant meals, sodas, energy drinks, desserts, candies and fruit juices. This infiltration of sugar sources like processed cane sugar, high fructose corn syrup and others over the last several decades has created a pandemic of excessive proportions of chronic diseases in Americans which resulted in the disability, illnesses and deaths, the majority which may have been preventable if not due to the growing additions to sugar, the over-consuming of sugar by many people who were not aware of health recommendations of the maximums of daily in gestation of foods that included added sugar.
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