Sugar, sweet suicide-Part 1

[Nina Kay]

This is a website that I came across. I thought that everyone here might be interested and it goes along with our thread about being abstinent from Obvious Sweets. This is the site that you can go to, but I will also copy some of it here to get you started. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articl...y/ai_104259144

With only 16 calories per teaspoon, what's the harm in a little sugar? Problem is, we can't get enough of the stuff. In a world where soft drinks and processed foods have become dietary staples in lieu of fresh fruit and vegetables, fiber-rich grains, and pure water, people are swallowing an average of 4l teaspoons (or 201 grams) of sugar daily, 31 teaspoons more than the maximum amount recommended by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Over time, that adds up to a whopping 162 pounds per person per year. And when you consider that part of the population eats far less or no sugar at all -- diabetics or babies, for instance -- that figure further soars. Thanks to their love affair with soft drinks, many children are at the higher end of this scale, consuming an additional 21 teaspoons of sugar daily. (1)

[mina86]

Anyone have any interesting websites on salt/sodium?

I'm curious about similiar statistics on that as well. I'm always trying to be conscious of both sugar and sodium because while too much sugar is obviously bad, too much sodium is also, but it can make you bloated which is no good!

Anyhow, please share if anyone has come across anything.