Michael Langston

Sugar poses a far greater threat to the health of our nation and of our world than the so-called pandemic that we heard so much about. Sugar and the diseases caused by sugar is the real pandemic. We have a pandemic of obesity and diabetes caused by sugar.

If Coca-Cola and other soft drink companies told consumers the truth in their commercials, no one in their right mind would consume these dangerous beverages. These harmful products have zero nutritional value and increase one’s risk for serious disease.

Why do we allow unscrupulous corporations such as the sugar industry and the processed-food industry to promote and market products that are causing so much harm to ourselves and our children? Sugar is just as harmful as tobacco and perhaps even more so.

Sugar is harmful to our health in a variety of different ways. In addition to making us fat, it also raises our risk for many deadly diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. Sugar has brought disease and death to countless millions of people.

The sugar industry won’t stop marketing it, and most people won’t stop eating it despite its negative health effects, and they won’t stop giving it to their children either, so the health of the entire population will very likely continue to deteriorate.