Are You Addicted to Sugar?
6 October 2009
About 95% of people are addicted to sugar.
Sugar as a basic food carbohydrate primarily comes from sugar cane and from sugar beet, but also appears in fruit, honey, sugar maple (in maple syrup), and in many other sources. But we do not need an excessive amount of sugar in our daily lives.
Many of us have cravings for sweet stuff or have a ‘sweet tooth’, without knowing that we may have an addiction problem. How many of us here loves chocolates, candies, ice-creams, cookies and cakes? Aplenty!
According to a study, refined sugar is far more addictive than cocaine.
They even did a study to allow rats to choose between sugar, water and cocaine. 94% of the rats chose sugar. Even rats which were previously addicted to cocaine, switched their preference to sugar, when sugar was offered as a choice.
Can you believe this?
Look at this bunting. It says, ‘This child eats 43 teaspoons of sugar in a day“.
It is absolutely unacceptable to unknowingly consume such an inordinate amount of sugar in a day.
Malaysians are one of the world’s largest consumers of sugar. We consume about 3.6kg of sugar per month or 25 teaspoons per day. The average world consumption of sugar is only 11 teaspoons per day.
About 3.5 million Malaysians are diabetic. Diabetes causes complications after complications. It will lead to death if left untreated.
What can I say? We often see Malaysians ordering Teh Ais, Teh Tarik, Sirap Ais during a normal meal. Not forgetting the amount of Coke or Pepsi we consume when we visit a nearby KFC or McDonald’s.
Look at our staple food. Rice. A bowl of white rice contains approximately 20 teaspoons of sugar! Now, this is scary!
Having said that, the questions is “Are you addicted to sugar?“
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Posted by Grace at 11:10 am
Categorised as Rantings & Thoughts
October 6th, 2009 at 11:26 am
this was a public service message from dr. grace ong.
October 6th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
I am definitely addicted to sugar X_X
October 7th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
gosh………..yeah read this on a mag….it’s pretty bad………………………………….
October 9th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
OMG, that’s me!!!! I love sweets!!!!
October 19th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
That’s why some people say govt should put scary pic like ones on ciggy packs on sugar packs sold at carrefour, tesco all… and maybe also on all can drinks.
Malaysia aa… haiya, cigarette price increase lagi buhuhu… but sugar far more dangerous than tobacco still subsidise lolwut……
October 20th, 2009 at 10:07 am
kevin: yeah, to ensure you don’t overeat your sugars!
Lut: x_X be careful with your diet then.
Gerald: yeah…especially you and your addiction with sweet kuih and sweet tong sui…
Kim: Yeah…. your love for chocs too…
Tokmoh: yeah… govt should stop subsidizing sugar and let it fluctuate with market rates…then they will think twice on eating sugar…