EP 7 – Eat This: Is Sugar Evil?

Are you an addicted, got-to-have-it kinda person when it comes to sugary and sweet foods? Do you look at others who bypass the chocolates, donuts, and cakes wondering how on earth they don’t stop and stuff their face, because that’s just what you want to do? As humans, don’t we have this innate need for sugar?

In This episode… we discuss SUGAR and how there is a disconnect between what the brain knows and what your body tells you it wants!

The 56 Most Common Names for Sugar (taken from healthline.com)

1. Sugar/Sucrose
2. High-Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS)
3. Agave Nectar
4. Beet sugar
5. Blackstrap molasses
6. Brown sugar
7. Buttered syrup
8. Cane juice crystals
9. Cane sugar
10. Caramel
11. Carob syrup
12. Castor sugar
13. Coconut sugar
14. Confectioner’s sugar (powdered sugar)
15. Date sugar
16. Demerara sugar
17. Evaporated cane juice
18. Florida crystals
19. Fruit juice
20. Fruit juice concentrate
21. Golden sugar
22. Golden syrup
23. Grape sugar
24. Honey
25. Icing sugar
26. Invert sugar
27. Maple syrup
28. Molasses
29. Muscovado sugar
30. Panela sugar
31. Raw sugar
32. Refiner’s syrup
33. Sorghum syrup
34. Sucanat
35. Treacle sugar
36. Turbinado sugar
37. Yellow sugar
38. Barley malt
39. Brown rice syrup
40. Corn syrup
41. Corn syrup solids
42. Dextrin
43. Dextrose
44. Diastatic malt
45. Ethyl maltol
46. Glucose
47. Glucose solids
48. Lactose
49. Malt syrup
50. Maltodextrin
51. Maltose
52. Rice syrup
53. Crystalline fructose
54. Fructose
55. D-ribose
56. Galactose