Sugar: FAO Scientific Consultation In Doubt - Financed by Sugar Industry

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Health Supreme Update: Sugar: FAO Scientific Consultation In

Doubt - Financed by Sugar Industry

 

 

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Health Supreme Update: Sugar: FAO Scientific Consultation In Doubt -

Financed by Sugar Industry

 

October 09, 2004

 

 

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Sugar is a refined carbohydrate devoid of all the nutrients

necessary to assimilate and metabolise it in the human body. It

is a net robber of nutrients. That means, for each gram of

sugar we eat our body needs to utilize vitamins and minerals

obtained from other foods - just to metabolize the sugar and

unlock its energy potential. Sugar, in other words, is a

positively unhealthy food. Who would have thought that the

official dietary recommendations with regards to carbohydrates

were largely financed by the sugar industry? Panorama in the UK

investigated and has a program on this tonight. The UN's Food

and Agriculture Organisation is reviewing the claims...

 

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