Aww Sugar, Sugar, you are my CANDY girl....

If you are old enough to remember the song from the Archie's, then we are close to the same generation.  Did we EVER imagine that everything we put in our mouth for nutrition and sustenance would come from a package or bag?  And that EVERY one of these packages would contain SUGAR or one of it's deriviatives?  It's no wonder that we are FAT and getting fatter!  Many of us don't even realize when we are eating, let's say a salty bag of BAKED or FRIED chips that we are also eating sugar.  I challenge you to check the ingredients on the next bag of chips you eat.  Look for one of the terms below.  Chances are, you will find one of more in the list.   It's probably because the food industry has at least 51 different ways to list this highly addictive and very cheap ingredient.

Some of the industries TERMS for sugar include:

1. Barley malt
2. Beet sugar
3. Brown sugar
4. Buttered syrup
5. Cane juice crystals
6. Cane sugar
7. Caramel
8. Corn syrup
9. Corn syrup solids
10. Confectioner’s sugar
11. Carob syrup
12. Castor sugar
13. Date sugar
14. Demerara sugar
15. Dextran
16. Dextrose
17. Diastatic malt
18. Diatase
19. Ethyl maltol
20. Fructose
21. Fruit juice
22. Fruit juice concentrate
23. Galactose
24. Glucose
25. Glucose solids
26. Golden sugar
27. Golden syrup
28. Grape sugar
29. High-fructose corn syrup
30. Honey
31. Icing sugar
32. Invert sugar
33. Lactose
34. Maltodextrin
35. Maltose
36. Malt syrup
37. Maple syrup
38. Molasses
39. Muscovado sugar
40. Panocha
41. Raw sugar
42. Refiner’s syrup
43. Rice syrup
44. Sorbitol
45. Sorghum syrup
46. Sucrose
47. Sugar
48. Treacle
49. Turbinado sugar
50. Yellow sugar
51. organic evaporated cane juice 

The single largest source of calories for Americans comes from sugar—specifically high fructose corn syrup. Just take a look at the sugar consumption trends of the past 300 years:[1]

• In 1700, the average person consumed about 4 pounds of sugar per year.
• In 1800, the average person consumed about 18 pounds of sugar per year.
• In 1900, individual consumption had risen to 90 pounds of sugar per year.
• In 2009, more than 50 percent of all Americans consume one-half pound of sugar PER DAY—translating to a whopping 180 pounds of sugar per year!

Sugar is loaded into your soft drinks, fruit juices, sports drinks, and hidden in almost all processed foods—from bologna to pretzels to Worcestershire sauce to cheese spread. And now most infant formula has the sugar equivalent of one can of Coca-Cola, so babies are being metabolically poisoned from day one if taking formula.

(Bold section was copied from Dr. Mercola's website www.mercola.com)

The other day my precious allergy riddled food sensitive daughter was shopping with her great aunt and uncle.  They amazed and impressed when she turned around each item and read the ingredients!  And I must say, when they bragged about it to me later, I was so delighted!!  But at the same time, how sad it is, that we have come to this place when even young children have to watch dog the food industry!  

We need to emulate my darling daughter, and read, read, read!