Excessive sugar consumption is one of the most widespread vices in the modern world. Here’s why you should stop making sugar a staple of your diet.

It Is Killing You

It has been linked to numerous diseases, including diabetes, Alzheimers, Depression, and heart disease. That Tucker Carlson episode with Dr. Casey Means is just the tip of the iceberg.

Anecdotally, when doctors couldn’t figure out my wife’s own health issues a few years ago, we were largely able to solve them with a drastic reduction in gluten and sugar consumption. What do they teach these people in medical school, anyway?

This stuff is killing you. But why is it killing you?

It Is Abnormal

This is the theme of so much of my work on this site: almost every part of modern life is a historical anomaly.

I remember touring a historical site from the 1700s when I was a young boy. On the table in one of the rooms was a cone of sugar, which the tour guide said would have actually been “rather unusual” at the time since sugar was so rare and expensive to make. Sugar being rare and expensive is normal; ancestral diets did not have a lot of sugar in them.

Nowadays, added sugar is in everything. It’s very difficult to find food without it. This is not normal. Consuming tons of sugar, like consuming tons of screen time, or tons of caffiene, or tons of processed food, or tons of nicotine, or tons of recreation, or having tons of sedentary time, is a huge departure from the kinds of conditions that human nature was designed for.

Normality is eating clean and simple foods from the earth. Modern food is not just peculiar, it’s insanity.

But why has insanity become the new “normal”? Why is sugar in everything?

It Is Addictive

Your body recognizes that sugar is an easy source of energy, and therefore craves it. No one knows this better than food companies.

Added sugar is in all kinds of things that it wouldn’t normally be in. This isn’t esoteric knowledge; just read the nutrition facts on the food you get at the grocery store. Yogurt, ketchup, sauces, cereals, protein bars, canned soups, and many, many other kinds of food are filled with this garbage. These increase your body’s cravings for them, which puts more dollars in the pockets of the big corporations that produce them, which allows them to fund the activist groups and petition the regulatory agencies that are supposed to stop them.

Coca Cola and PepsiCo, the biggest sellers of diabetes water on the planet, are sponsors the American Diabetes Association and the American Heart Assocation. The USDA currently does not have a limit on added sugars in school lunches (though this will be changing starting this year).

You’re on your own, concerned citizen. “The System” will never disenfranchise itself.

What to do?

Dr. Means estimates we are eating about 100 times as much sugar as we did 150 years ago. Your goal should be to get your diet at least back to 1850.

No more gas station meals, fast food, or added sugar. No more soda, treats, candies, or baked goods. No more iced lattes. No more sugar in your coffee. And while you’re at it, no more of those stupid energy drinks or nicotine consumables. Stop being a dependent consoomer.

Remember, the goal is not to be a food hipster or some kind of crunchy. The goal is literally to eat like a normal person again. No one is going to do it for you, or make it easier for you. Big Food needs your money to pay off the regulatory-activist-industrial complex so they can keep selling you their junk. You don’t have to buy it.