Lawmakers should impose a restraint on the amount of sugar each person ingests. According to Dr. Robert Lustig people have either heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, or obesity mainly because of too much sugar consumption. This is important to know because people are just devouring sugar without knowing what harm they are doing to themselves. Additionally from a study, americans consume around an average of 130 pounds of sugar! That is roughly about ⅓ of a pound everyday! This confirms that without a doubt sugar is affecting all of us in a bad way. Whether it’s obesity or heart problems. As well as Dr. Lustig, Dr. Kimber Stanhope experimented on volunteers and found out something disturbing as well as fascinating. The volunteers are under 24 …show more content…
And the increased levels LDL and other risk factors occurred in only weeks after the consumption of high-fructose corn syrup. This supports the claim that lawmakers should impose a restraint on the amount of sugar each person ingests because look at how people are treating themselves. Many people know how bad too much sugar is but nothing is really stopping them from going over the limit and increasing their chances of cancer or heart failure. Lewis Cantley, a Harvard professor, learned that eating or drinking sugar spikes our insulin. Insulin however cause harmful effects on several tissues, in a particular concern, cancer. ⅓ of cancer cells have this thing called insulin receptors which in particular take in glucose. Every single cell in our body needs glucose to survive but they can’t get it if the insulin receptors are sucking all the glucose to fuel to cancer cells. So people know why they are getting fat or receiving heart failure, they know how to lower the chances of getting cancer, now all they need to do is just lower their sugar consumption to