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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
the amount of sugar (and high fructose corn syrup, and all the imitation sweetners) that they put into 95% of our food is ridiculous. I cannot/will not eat most of the pre-prepared foods. it is no wonder that diabetes and obesity is so rampant in this country
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Rest assured, it will only get worse :-(
It's similar here, though I think not quite as bad as in america. We're on our way, though.
I've once seen a documentation stating that even baby food contains too much sugar.
Not, as some conspiracy theorists might think, because they want to train us all on sugar, but because (too) many parents (themselves adjusted to very sweet tastes) would try the food before feeding it, and would otherwise decide it's not good because it doesn't taste sweet enough...
The only way out now, IMO, is unfortunately not reducing sugar (next to impossible), but replacing it. Artificial sweeteners or newly found plants or whatever.
Of course, that will still alter the taste and lots of people will harp about how bad all those artificial sweeteners are, even if they don't even know what they're talking about.
(Fun fact: there are several completely different groups of sweeteners. How come "a study claimed that sweeteners cause hunger" can be taken serious if the actual stuff isn't even mentioned in this statement? It's not as if, for example, Xylitol or Isomalt behaves the same way Saccharin or Aspartame does. The only thing in common is that they taste sweet.)