The Dangers of Sugars and ‘Bad Fats’ Explained by Mike Donkers
By far the chief wreckers of our health today are sugars and bad
fats. So which are the good ones and which ones are bad? My aim
is to enable you to make better food choices for you and your
family. Sugars are more than just the white grains you put in
your coffee or tea. Sugars are also to be found in the caffeine
in coffee, alcohol, honey, fruit juice without the pulp and
peeled potatoes. Even the so-called slow sugars, such as whole
grains, are still sugars. We are the descendants of Stone Age
men. By an evolutionary twist, this man was a mammal whose liver
was not capable of converting sugar into vitamin C (most mammals
can, in fact, do this). Thus we need to get our vitamin C from
external sources, such as vegetables and fruit. We are not
genetically equipped to deal with a whole lot of sugar. One
needs to distinguish between fast and slow sugars. Fast sugars
are sugars which are not converted into energy by the liver but
into fat instead. Th