Sugar
Various types of sugar - fructose, sucrose (table sugar), glucose, galactose, lactose, maltose, dextrose - are synthesized by Nature in a variety of plants - grasses such as the corn and cane plants, beets, fruits, milk, avocados, potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower. Nuts also contain sugar. It's in honey made by bees. And the human body makes it also - e.g. via the breakdown of potato starch, protein or fat.
In my opinion, added sugars such as high fructose corn syrup (which has toxic mercury contaminating it) do much damage to health and are not worth the temporary pleasure of sweet taste. As you wean yourself from added sugars, you'll notice all your naturally sweet foods will taste better. Mothers know to allow desert only at the end of a meal, as it will kill taste for anything else.
We humans are an adventurous bunch, all the time tinkering with stuff and disturbing the status quo. I remember when televisions were still black-and-white and the antennas were called "rabbit ears". In those days, you had to adjust the picture so it wouldn't roll. I'd go behind and play with it to get a better picture and sound and my mother would say "Why can't you leave well enough alone?" because my messing around had interrupted us all watching the program.
Can we at least agree we on Earth are in a crisis? Our tendency to blame each other reminds me of the old comedy routine in which Laurel says to Hardy "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into." But the Chinese word for "crisis" includes both "emergency" and "opportunity". We are emerging into a new age, both the death of the old and the birth of the new. Let's rise above our differences and work together for the whole.
Some refer to sugar as an addictive substance. The School of Hard Knocks has taught me addiction is no joke. At this time of great change, we each will be better off working to minimize our addictions to: fossil fuels, sugar, cocaine, caffeine, tobacco, alcohol, opiates such as heroin, long-distance travel and transport of foods and other goods, processed food, lawn mowers, leaf blowers, clothes dryers. Cooperation is much more efficient than competition (in the long run and big picture)
In my opinion, added sugars such as high fructose corn syrup (which has toxic mercury contaminating it) do much damage to health and are not worth the temporary pleasure of sweet taste. As you wean yourself from added sugars, you'll notice all your naturally sweet foods will taste better. Mothers know to allow desert only at the end of a meal, as it will kill taste for anything else.
We humans are an adventurous bunch, all the time tinkering with stuff and disturbing the status quo. I remember when televisions were still black-and-white and the antennas were called "rabbit ears". In those days, you had to adjust the picture so it wouldn't roll. I'd go behind and play with it to get a better picture and sound and my mother would say "Why can't you leave well enough alone?" because my messing around had interrupted us all watching the program.
Can we at least agree we on Earth are in a crisis? Our tendency to blame each other reminds me of the old comedy routine in which Laurel says to Hardy "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into." But the Chinese word for "crisis" includes both "emergency" and "opportunity". We are emerging into a new age, both the death of the old and the birth of the new. Let's rise above our differences and work together for the whole.
Some refer to sugar as an addictive substance. The School of Hard Knocks has taught me addiction is no joke. At this time of great change, we each will be better off working to minimize our addictions to: fossil fuels, sugar, cocaine, caffeine, tobacco, alcohol, opiates such as heroin, long-distance travel and transport of foods and other goods, processed food, lawn mowers, leaf blowers, clothes dryers. Cooperation is much more efficient than competition (in the long run and big picture)
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