My reactions are simple, whenever I am depressed I stuff that stuff into my body. According to recent research mindwandering precedes unhappiness. It seems there is some potential activitated that prepares our brain for unhappy feelings. Sugar does not make us happy, but my assumption is that similar to sex sugar brings us for a moment back to our body and thus away from mind wandering. This transition is crucial for an unstoppable addiction to sugar, a diet that many Americans follow.
We need to replace our addiction with a meaningful life, but to be honest sugar is the easiest solution to many of our problems.
Background-Ideas - How to know which nutrition is good for you?
I am not a fan of conspiracy theories, but the sugar industry had clear intent to twist facts about sugar consumption. The former white gold was rare and made money for some millionaires.
"The Association sought out scientists who were trying to prove that fat was the major health threat, not sugar. They gave funding to these scientists to try to push their research ahead of anti-sugar research.6""
"Several months later, the review was published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine.19,20
The report firmly concluded sugar was NOT to blame for America’s growing health problems. And because it came from Harvard, the entire medical community listened.21,2
http://nucific.com/blog/food-truth-letters/harvard-scientists-bribed-to-lie/?utm_campaign=fb_ppe%7Cc_us-g_f-a_18p-pi_n-aud_la10_registration%5Edlp_eathealthy Cutting Sugar from your Diet https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/10/27/cutting-sugar-from-kids-diets-appears-to-have-a-beneficial-effect-in-just-days/
Scientific Knowledge
The problem is that such scientists discredit the progress in science and the question is: How to gain right information?
Now, I think that a philosophy course with the right emphasis on scientific work as well as sociology-studies might help on these issues.
Despite the reliance on the scientific facts, however, ethics should be one of our major guidelines.
