I have never considered myself a thin person. I like to consider myself as a big boned person as opposed to being plain fat. I try to watch what I am eating as the effects can be devastating.

But the environment you’re in plays a big part of on you.

For example: everyone here in the US seems to be concerned with… sugar. Sugar? Yes, sugar.

From bread, meat (ever heard of meat with honey?), yogurt, milk, cereals, ketchup, everything is pumped up with sugar over here. What the …?

Turns out that the people over here are literally in the middle of a sugar rush. Isn’t that just wonderful? Not as wonderful as the fact that your average Joe consumes about 1-1,5 kg of sugar PER WEEK.

As I start to count the number of diseases that can be induced by obesity I start to wonder why this is happening and slowly start to feint.

The thing that really made me mad was descovering the sugar amount in a glass of “low fat” milk. It’s not more or less than 11 GRAMS. I though it was kinda funny how the sweet the milk is as I was enjoying a glass of milk before bed but was horrified to read the label. Somebody is going to stop drinking milk [at least this brand for sure].

You can find a list of all the good effects of sugar here.

My favorites:

Sugar can cause premature aging.
Sugar can increase cholesterol.
Sugar can cause depression.
Sugar can cause hemorrhoids.

Related posts:

1. Cereal Label Fail
2. Health Effects of Obesity (Losing weight saga – Prologue)
3. Zig Zag (Losing weight saga – 9)