(NaturalNews) Most of us have heard the good advice that we need
to eat less sugar - and rightly so. However, despite the
numerous warnings by health authorities of the ill effects of
sugar, the majority of the population is still consuming sugar
on a daily basis in some form or other. "Sugar" is both a broad
category and a misleading one. Let's examine it for our health's
sake. We do not have to consume white, refined sugar to be
consuming sugar. Sugar includes glucose, fructose (as in fruit
sugar), lactose (as in milk), sucrose (as in table sugar),
maltose or malts (as in rice malt and honey), jam (contains
concentrated juice, which is high in fruit sugar), maple syrup,
corn syrup, palm sugar (traditionally used in macrobiotic
cooking), and the very deceiving organic brown sugar, which is
not all that different from white sugar. Even alcohol is a
sugar. All of these sugars are problematic in many different
ways. The sugar industry is not in decline and obesity is on the
increase. Sugar is a major culprit in