Sugar gets the red light from consumers in new study

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releas...00228102257.htm

Finally! Fat and salt are actually our friends.

True - but it seems that only the general public has figured out when it comes to the traffic light system, high sugar content is the one to avoid:


TPTB (The Powers That Be) which came up with the traffic light system still have fat and salt targeted as being just as troublesome as sugar, if not more troublesome, otherwise this would not likely have been a news story deemed worth reporting.

Now if the traffic light system had a green light for high fat content, and red for high sugar AND overall high carb content, we might be getting somewhere.

Now, Calianna, careers are at stake here! Let's not lose our focus on what is really important!

As a society, we have not yet evolved a mechanism that will let people be wrong. And look at all the mayhem that comes from that.

Yes, that's all too true. If the change to LC as the officially recommended diet happens too quickly, it affects far more than merely the careers and income of those who have spent decades pushing low fat/high carb propaganda, and factory farm operations.

It would negatively affect many, many people very far down the line, from the millions of baked goods/cereal/snack foods factory line workers who will no longer be needed to produce those goods, to the person making barely more than minimum wage stocking shelves at the local grocery store (because the fact of the matter is that if everyone switched to LC tomorrow, customers would not need nearly as much food, so not nearly as much would be sold, and therefore not nearly as many shelves to stock, and not nearly as many workers needed), to the construction workers who would no longer be needed to build or remodel ever larger grocery stores to accommodate the ever increasing number of grain based products on the shelves, to the small family farming operation which is already being squeezed to the limit by the yearly expenses involved in farming, on top of their investment in the extremely expensive, specialized equipment needed to plant and harvest grains) - switching to all the completely different equipment and supplies needed for livestock based production would be an an insurmountable drain on their finances, and result in many more farmers going bankrupt. Bananas, which are the most popular fruit sold in this country would drop off to almost nothing - which would negatively affect the banana production workers in other countries.

In addition to that, if there was a sudden massive increase in the amount of LC friendly foods required to feed a nearly overnight massive surge in LCers, supply and demand would increase the price of LC friendly foods to completely un-affordable levels for most people.

It's certainly not good for those who will continue to eat LF/HC through all the years/decades of little increments that it takes to implement a complete change towards LC, but the longer it takes, the more it will minimize the financial effects and food shortages for the general population. I just need to remember that any cut in the consumption of carbs is a good thing, even if it's only cutting out excess sugars for the time being.

An excellent point, when you consider the tiny amount of people who make tons of money from processed, much of it subsidized by OUR taxes.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/...-unhealthy.html

This is a very good thing that people are finally realizing just how bad all that sugar is for you, but I have to wonder what kind of sandwiches are high in sugar?


I suppose there's always the plant-based choice, peanut butter and jelly - that's going to be high in sugar, because of the sugary jelly, although most peanut butters are also sweetened, so that adds to the sugar total.

If it's on whole grain bread, it'll be even higher in sugar, because whole grain breads are always sweetened more than white breads, in order to cover up the rancidity of the oils in the germ, and the bitterness of the bran. Might as well call it a giant cookie/biscuit.

Condiments on meat, fish, cheese and/or egg-based sandwiches are often loaded with sugar
Think sweet pickles and relish, ketchup, barbecue sauce, honey mustard, chutneys and the like .

Ah - all those things I've never liked. I've never been able to gag them down, because I've always hated sweet stuff on savory foods, and never understood how anyone could possibly like glazed ham, or sweet BBQ sauce on meats, which is why those things didn't occur to me. I should have remembered it though, since those sort of ingredients are the reason I never liked commercially made egg salad, tuna salad, chicken salad, etc. Even a lot of deli meats are awfully sweet - honey ham, sweet bologna, BBQ chicken, etc.

I've found that abstaining from sugar lets me taste the sweet far more; and then, to more sugar avoidance.

This is a good start, however, considering the hair splitter I've become regarding eating lifestyle, I want to know what type of fat we have for ingredients. Certain fats, primarily omega 6 highly processed oils are a concern for me. Small but important steps regarding sugar. I'll still scrutinize the labels rather than worry about running a red light. Dangerous traffic looms.