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When somebody thinks of poison, the first thing that comes to mind is most likely some kind of toxin or dangerous chemicals, but a type of poison usually overlooked is none other than 'sugar'.
You see, although eating a single teaspoon of the thing isn't going to kill you immediately, the fact that sugar is very overlooked when it comes to harming your body helps in the death of millions of people worldwide. Around 1500-ish years ago, the average junk food was usually just a piece of bread and some little amount of sugar. But nowadays with technology and science, the invention of food dyes, chemicals, and all other random crap companies put into your food is the stereotypical junk food. The addition of very harmful edible dyes and chemicals is normalized and does not help the body in any way whatsoever. They are only meant to give off the sweet and delicious taste that they give.
The thing is, companies do not care about your health. As long as it makes them money, they'll do it without hesitation. For example, according to Google, a normal 710 liter of Coca-Cola contains 42 grams of sugar ( 16 teaspoons ). And it only gets worse from here! Because the average Mountain Dew bottle contains 77 grams of sugar ( 18 teaspoons ). Drinking one bottle of any of these brands may not kill you, but prolonged consumption of these foods daily leads to a non-balanced diet, which will guarantee cause some kind of dietary disease such as diabetes, increased rate of heart attacks, hypertension, and in some cases, a one-way ticket to God.
Of course, greedy companies can't risk the customers to realize this, and thus they are never mentioned in advertisements, their packaging, and overall it is never mentioned by the company themselves, unless they need to make more money, in which they release their "healthier" options. Like Diet Coke. Now, although Diet Coke does not contain sugar or any carbohydrates, and while they are healthier than regular Coke, they are far from healthy. They may not have sugar, but a can of Diet Coke contains a crap ton of artificial sweeteners and 40 milligrams of sodium (don't be fooled, sodium contains little to no nutritional value and consumption of Diet Coke regularly is still unhealthy for you).
Not even biscuits are safe from this. Biscuits are a very common and popular snack in Southeast Asia, where it is common as a snack and is very common to find in households. Chips for America is like biscuits for India. But unlike chips which will kill you of just carbs, and how sodas will kill you of just sugar, biscuits are kind of an in-between, because they contain both way too much carbs and way too much sugar. Even the wheat biscuit companies try to advertise their wheat biscuits as healthy, and they are better than sodas but still contain a crap ton of sugar. If anything, biscuits are more of a threat than chocolate, because while most parents only allow their children to eat 1-2 chocolates per week, biscuits are eaten daily as lunch and have been normalized by southeastern Asia.
To put this simply, if your food or lunch comes from the supermarket from a big company, it's guaranteed diabetes (kind of). What I'm trying to say is, I'm not stopping you from stopping on eating sweets overall, I'm just trying to imply the fact that eating something good once in a while doesn't hurt, but prolonged consumption of these unhealthy foods is very bad for you and no matter what anybody says, your health and well-being are very important to you and nothing is going to stop that.
"Health is Wealth"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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