They're getting rid of it because they're concerned about the health impacts. Sanjay Gupta: Would it surprise you that almost every scientist that we talked to in researching this story told us they are eliminating all added sugars. With all this new science emerging, we wanted to hear from the sugar industry, so we visited Jim Simon, who's on the board of the Sugar Association, at a sugar cane farm in Louisiana.ĭr. The result: you eat more than ever.Įric Stice: If you overeat these on a regular basis it causes changes in the brain that basically it blunts your reward region response to the food, so then you eat more and more to achieve the same satisfaction you felt originally. As strange as it sounds, that means the more you eat, the less you feel the reward. Sanjay Gupta: So far be it for people to realize this 'cause sugar is everywhere, but you're saying this is one of the most addictive substances possibly that we have?Įric Stice: It certainly is very good at firing the reward regions in our brain.Įric Stice says by scanning hundreds of volunteers, he's learned that people who frequently drink sodas or eat ice cream or other sweet foods may be building up a tolerance, much like drug users do. I'm experiencing some pleasure from having this Coke.ĭr. Sanjay Gupta: This idea that sugar increases this particularly bad LDL, the small dense particles that are associated with heart disease. Robert Lustig: Take the fat out of food, it tastes like cardboard. Lustig believes that's primarily because we replaced a lot of that fat with added sugars.ĭr. And guess what? Heart disease, metabolic syndrome, diabetes and death are skyrocketing.ĭr. Sanjay Gupta: So with the best of intentions, they say, "Time to reduce fat in the American diet?"ĭr. That's when a government commission mandated that we lower fat consumption to try and reduce heart disease.ĭr.
So imagine, for these healthy young people, drinking a sweetened drink might be just as bad for their hearts as the fatty cheeseburgers we've all been warned about since the 1970s. Kimber Stanhope: I would have to say I was surprised because when I saw our data, I started drinking and eating a whole lot less sugar. Sanjay Gupta: The mantra that you hear from most nutritionists is that a calorie is a calorie is a calorie. That suggests calories from added sugars are different than calories from other foods.ĭr. She's in the middle of a groundbreaking, five-year study which has already shown strong evidence linking excess high fructose corn syrup consumption to an increase in risk factors for heart disease and stroke. For years, he's been a controversial voice.īut now, studies done by Kimber Stanhope, a nutritional biologist at the University of California, Davis are starting to back him up. Lustig believes those sweeteners are helping fuel an increase in the most deadly disease in America: heart disease. Americans now consume 130 pounds per person a year - that's a third of a pound every day.ĭr. Lustig's theory is that we used to get our fructose mostly in small amounts of fruit - which came loaded with fiber that slows absorption and consumption - after all, who can eat 10 oranges at a time? But as sugar and high fructose corn syrup became cheaper to refine and produce, we started gorging on them. Robert Lustig: We were born this way.Ĭentral to Dr. So when you taste something that's sweet, it's an evolutionary Darwinian signal that this is a safe food.ĭr. I think one of the reasons evolutionarily is because there is no food stuff on the planet that has fructose that is poisonous to you. Lustig says they are both toxic because they both contain fructose - that's what makes them sweet and irresistible.ĭr. Since the 1970s, sugar consumption has gone down nearly 40 percent, but high fructose corn syrup has more than made up the difference. Sanjay Gupta: Is it worse than just table sugar?ĭr. And what about the man-made, often vilified sweetener, high fructose corn syrup?ĭr. Lustig means the obvious things such as table sugar, honey, syrup, sugary drinks and desserts, but also just about every processed food you can imagine, where sugar is often hidden: yogurts and sauces, bread, and even peanut butter. Lustig has published a dozen scientific articles on the evils of sugar, it was his lecture on YouTube, called "Sugar: The Bitter Truth," that brought his message to the masses.īy "bad food" Dr. Robert Lustig: Seventy-five percent of it is preventable.
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