Wednesday, November 07, 2012

Watch your sugar intake...

I've been reading some nutrition related information and books the last few weeks and have learnt one thing: that sugar is a killer! Here's an nytimes article in which the author (also of the book: Good calories, bad calories ...) discusses at length the perils of sugar and how the American sugar industry has kept legislation away from acting on sugar.

OTOH, in India, we happily munch away at our Deepavali sweets ignoring the perils of Type II diabetes, which is already an epidemic in India. Time to pause and think!

Not just sweets, it's also time to be watchful of products that look and proclaim to be 'healthy' on the outside. Here's one such.