Sour Warning on Sugar

From Dallas Texas, The American Heart Association (AHA) see us as patients rather than participants and when you go to their website they separate their information in that category. We only think of ourselves as patients when we're forced to seek medical attention. When we're seeking information we consider ourselves curious. Yet when the reports were that we eat too much sugar we didn't want to hear this information. We've heard it from our parents and friends for decades warning us that we'd get diabetes if we continued to eat and add the sugar to our drinks and food. Thankfully their warning didn't come true. Before we prepared to write this article we finished the bag of sugar candies and ate them all. In their "Scientific Statement" published in Circulation magazine and based on information from 2001 to 2004 the AHA reached this conclusion: "Over the past 30 years, total calorie intake has increased by anaverage of 150 to 300 calories per day, and approximately 50% of this increase comes from liquid calories (primarily sugar-sweetened beverages). At the same time, there has been no apparent change in physical activity. Hence, it is likely that weight gain over the same period must be related in part to increased intake of added sugars, even though research tools thus far have been insufficient to confirm a direct link."

The statement admits to making leaps that research hasn't demonstrated in an effort to allow us couch potatoes to live our lives with less sugar. Given the choice between giving up sugar or more physical activity we'll chose more physical activity. No, really we will. Honestly. This time we really really mean it. So after our nap we're going to take a nice leisurely walk around the neighborhood - all to keep our sweet tooth sweet. Another warning that we hear but we'll chose a different path. The choice is yours. Give up the sweets or walk the walk or use the gym for more than a place to use the bathroom when you're out at the mall.