Sugar: The Bitter Truth
An Analysis by Josh Seal
After watching the video “Sugar: The Bitter Truth”, it is easy to determine what the message from the video; that all calories are not the same. Dr. Robert Lustig explains how our society has been brainwashed with the standard that if you eat a certain amount of calories and don’t work them off the rest of the day, then you gain weight. He explains that the obesity epidemic isn’t because of fat intake, but because of sugar and carbohydrates. In particular, fructose, one of the main sugars used in foods and high fructose corn syrup is “toxic”. Fructose is digested completely differently by the body and “tricks the brain into wanting to eat more and the food industry knows it”.
Even though we need glucose, another type of sugar, to perform our bodily functions, fructose doesn’t help anything in the body. It actually does the complete opposite, for consuming calories of fructose creates the equal amount of calories of fat. He also compares drinking a soda and a beer together, showing that even though the beer has maltose (another type of sugar derived from ethanol, which is a version of fructose), the effect is the same; obesity. Another point that he made was that sugar can be addicting. Sodas, junk food, and other types of sugars can all be as addicting as hardcore drugs, and that is why people keep the same diets and keep getting obese. The food industry is what keeps our economy running, because they profit year round all the time and keep people happy in the current economic struggles. Dr. Lustig defines why all calories are not the same in his lecture “Sugar: The Bitter Truth”, by explaining how sugars can ruin your body and that we must stop the obesity epidemic.
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