Health and Fitness - Sugar Detox (Educational)
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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Before we start, we're going to ask you to do something simple. Picture one of those £5 bags of sugar, the kind you find in your average grocery store. Got it. Now picture 15 of them. Hang on to that image. We'll get back to it in a minute. Ah, sugar. The sweet stuff we dash or dump in our coffee, Sprinkle on our oatmeal and caramelized on our creme brulee. In this book, we're not just talking about the sweeteners. We know we add to our foods to give it a little kick. We're also talking about all the hidden sugars. The one you may not know about that are in many of the most popular foods we consume. In fact, sugar consumption is at an all time high, and it's making us unhealthy. So much so that a group of scientists from the University of California at San Francisco have recently recommended that the use of sugar be regulated the same way alcohol and tobacco are in the United States. Yep, sugar is a controlled substance. Some people might find the government monitoring of sugar a bit much, but here's the scoop. A diet high in sugar, such as the one found right here in the use A leads to everything