Sugar is absolutely everywhere, whatever food we eat, we find sugar in one form or another. Take the trouble to read the labels while shopping and you will be surprised to notice that manufacturers add sugar everywhere: refined sugar, cane sugar or even fructose, glucose, glucose syrup, maltose and many others. One poison after another, our mass-market foods are enriched with sugar in one way or another.

Learning to spot the different added sugars on labels is a priority in our healthy living habits.

Our consumption has also increased, we have all become sugar addicts and the statistics prove it. In France, the annual consumption of sugar in 1800 was 5 kilos per year; today we are close to 35 kilos per year per person (and 46 kilos in Belgium). This number is frightening and it really scares for the future of our health.

Should we remove all sugars from our plate?

Absolutely not! Sugars are essential to the good health of our body and mainly of our brain whose cells are fed only by carbohydrates. It remains to consume them in a conscious and thoughtful way: slow and natural sugars from plants are essential to our proper functioning, they are our fuel. Let's not condemn them!
The sugars to be eliminated are without question the refined, added and processed sugars. These are real poisons that clog our body and intoxicate us completely. They are also addictive and the effects could be compared to those of a hard drug.

Refined white sugar, which is none other than sucrose, extracted from sugar beet, is chemically made up of a fructose molecule linked to a glucose molecule. This type of sugar is the one that is unfortunately found in many cupboards, in restaurants, in cafés, the one that is used by the majority of people, that is used by the great bakers, the star chefs but also by the 20th century housewife. It is however to be abolished. Contrary to the sugars that are good for our health, sucrose, after having passed through the hands of industrialists who will transform, refine and whiten it, has no nutritional quality to help us move forward in life.

What are the risks of eating refined white sugar?

This type of sugar, like any other quick sugar, promotes the proliferation of fungi and the one highlighted is none other than Candida Albicans.

• When glucose is poorly absorbed by the cells, it concentrates in the blood and disturbs the secretion of insulin. This disease, well known to all, is none other than diabetes, which is increasingly encountered in younger and younger children.
• Excess sucrose causes a deficiency in B vitamins. Group of vitamins essential for the proper functioning of the nervous system. Do not hesitate to supplement with vitamins if you consume too many foods composed of this type of sugar.
• Sugar is cariogenic and therefore leads to cavities more quickly.
• A definite weight gain and a tendency to obesity.
• Hypo and hyperglycemia
• Finally, this sugar is acidifying and who says acidification of the ground says disease.

If fruit sugar is good, can I eat fructose?

Although fruits are mainly composed of fructose and are essential to the proper functioning of the body, they are not a source of sugar. Excessive consumption of fructose - as a replacement for glucose, for example - is not an option in a healthy diet. Indeed, studies prove that the abuse of fructose would have consequences on the level of triglycerides in the blood and therefore it would be a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, stick to the fructose found in fruit and not the added fructose available in the industrial network today. In short, do not consume any sugar that you cannot find as is in nature, we have not been programmed to consume this kind of chemical and processed product. An apple, a date, a mango...nothing like it for a healthy nutritional and energy intake.