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Because sadly sugar is just business to the people who buy and sell it and the bottom line is that supermarkets and food manufacturers are just businesses too. This means they are not as likely to have a personal interest in our well being as we like to imagine. It is our responsibility to know this and understand it and be careful of what we consume. LC

Posted 1 April 2010 at 13:06 by Lucy Case

Given that we are meant to be eating healthier hoe come they still sell so much stuff packed with sugar and encourage kids to eat more and more sugar?

Posted 4 March 2010 at 13:30 by Poppy Barry

this was interesting to read and the context you wrote it in did explain it clearly. It is true therefore that we must read the lables and be savvy, because, when being "sold" something low-fat it tends to be "high sugar" and when we are being sold something "low sugar" it tends to be "high fat" and basically "they" get away with it.....Sally

Posted 22 January 2010 at 12:45 by sally sanders

Yes, it is I am afraid. It is such a shame as I love sugary things too. As our understanding of the body and how it works develops then some things which were thought to be correct a few years later become disproved. In the case of eggs and cholesterol it seemed logical that if eggs contain cholesterol and ones cholesterol reading were high then to reduce the intake of eggs would fix it. Of coures time passed and this was disproved as it was discovered that injested cholesterol did not just turn into the cholesterol in our bodies, just as injested fat doesnt turn into stored fat. The issue with sugar is the effect on the blood sugar levels. It is not something apparant in so many people as their bodies work hard the whole time to compensate it, a bit like smoking, so many people smoke for 20 years and say "but I feel fine". It is a stress on the body coping with sugar (and smoking) and this stressing process leads to damage internally. LC

Posted 23 November 2009 at 11:40 by Lucy Case