Does sugar addiction really exist?
I admit, on the story of sugar that hurts and causes addiction, I fell too : I too had a sugar-free diet (by sugar I mean: white or raw sugar, or sucrose). It took a while for me to realize that not only eliminating sugar altogether did not give any particular benefit to my diet, as I replaced it with other calorie sweeteners like molasses or honey, but it is a very stressful practice. . Glucose, salt, water . These are three elements on which most of the food myths revolve, but they are and remain three vital elements for our health.

Of course, we can also get glucose from other forms of both simple and complex carbohydrates, so sucrose itself is not essential to life. Clear (two) that too much glucose, as well as too much of anything (too much water, too much salt) is bad. And therefore too much sugar is also bad.

But there are three things that, when it comes to sugar addiction, are false. They have been denied and it makes no sense to sacrifice one’s diet in defense of our fixation.

The first false thing is that cane sugar is more nutritious than refined sugar : therefore (it is not clear why), refined sugar is bad, cane sugar is healthy. There are minimal differences between the two sugars. Dario Bressanini has brilliantly dispelled this myth in this article that I invite you to read : he has also dispelled the legend that dyes and other harmful substances were used to make sugar white.

The second false thing is that sugar is a poison. Sucrose is a disaccharide composed of glucose and fructose. Glucose and fructose together are also found in simple fruit, in some vegetables such as beets, potatoes and carrots, in oil and oilseeds (pistachios have 7 grams of sucrose per 100 grams, therefore more than a teaspoon of sugar. ), and even in smaller doses in cereals and legumes. It is true, there is also the glucose-fructose syrup derived from corn which is used to sweeten many industrial products: so if we eat biscuits, snacks or other things, maybe we can avoid the sugar in coffee.

But if we do not consider the foods that I have listed as poison, even if they contain sucrose, why then is sucrose in the form of sugar poison? So it is the dose that makes the poison. But if it is the dose that makes the poison this applies to all substances. But let’s see the history of sugar addiction