Global sugar production is hitting record highs, up nearly 5% worldwide, thanks to bumper crops in Brazil, India, and Thailand. For candy and soda makers, it’s a jackpot. But for public health advocates, it’s a disaster.
Cheaper sugar means even cheaper junk food flooding cities, exacerbating the obesity epidemic and chronic disease crisis already gripping America.
Chalk one up for insulin resistance. While Big Food cashes in, local governments and taxpayers foot the bill for rising healthcare costs and diet-driven illness.
Bottom line: this sugar rush is great news for processed food giants, but a bitter pill for communities working to break free from industrial food’s destructive cycle.
Another thing… high blood sugar? What about stop eating sugar? No? Why? Because this orchestrated addition is real and maybe taste bud pleasure trumps public health education.