It’s Not My Fault! Part 2

I’m sorry, I debated with myself about posting more about this. Part of me doesn’t want to talk much about this anymore, but there was a thought I had, that I forgot to put in first time. So here we go…

82 grams of sugar per serving still just blows my mind. First, I would like to establish that sugar is not a main food item. Sugar is in the category of flavor enhancer, improver, almost like a spice but not quite. It’s something to add to something else to make it taste better. No one sits down with a bowl of sugar and just eats it.

Ok, now let’s imagine that we have a drink and we replace the 20 teaspoons of sugar with 20 spoons of something else.

First, let’s replace the sugar with 20 spoons of salt. Could you even find a person who would drink something with 20 spoons of salt? What would happen? According to Wikipedia: “Eventually the blood’s sodium concentration rises to toxic levels, removing water from cells and interfering with nerve conduction, ultimately producing fatal seizure and cardiac arrhythmia.”

Ok, that doesn’t sound very good!

Let use something that is good for you. How about Vitamin C? Our bodies don’t produce it naturally, so we need an external source. 82 grams, huh……ok, a person’s body can ingest about 10 to 12 grams, without negative effect. So about 1/8 of 82. Once you go over 10 to 12 grams, you experience diarrhea and vomiting. I’m not sure what would happen if you drank 82 grams of vitamin C in one go?

Certainly they have high dose IV vitamin C which bypasses your gut. I’ve had it myself. Without a properly trained doctor, that starts around 50 grams and ramps you up to the 80 level, you can die from it.

82 grams of cinnamon? 82 grams of oregano? 82 grams of cumin? 82 grams of Reishi? 82 grams of Chili pepper? Do you see my point? How insane 82 grams of sugar in a drink is? People only do it because it tastes good, but I promise you there are health consequences, just like ingesting 82 grams of anything else.