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Seeking a Tick For 5 years before 2011, the Australian Heart Foundation gave their coveted tick to a McChicken, 6 Chicken Nuggets and a Filet-o-Fish. They currently don’t consider sugar a major health concern.    So this morning I awoke from one of the better sleeps I have had since the sugar inhaling began. My … Continued

Sugar and Love A lesson in how sugar is made.   Cane is extracted from the fields and taken to the mill. At the mill, machines wash, cut and shred the stalks into a pulpy mass. This pulpy mass is crushed between rollers to squeeze out the sugary juice, called cane juice. This grayish-green liquid … Continued

Fruity Friday The average American consumes 1.4 kilos of sugar per week or roughly 1610 kilograms in a lifetime. That is 1,767,900 purple skittles.   So as I awoke this morning I was kindly alerted that I had made an error in my teaspoon calculations yesterday. The bottle of Lucozade I drank was actually 10 … Continued

The Gremlin Slayer I read an interesting study today from the University of Vermont. High school children that had 5 or more soft drinks per week showed much higher levels of violent behaviour than those that didn’t consume the drinks. Despite my hoovering of sweetened teas and juices, I can assure everyone that my lady … Continued

My little ‘Tolerance’ ‘Miracle Berry’ is a small African fruit that hijacks the tastebuds so that anything you eat tastes sweet for 10 minutes, even a lemon. It was seen as a godsend for diabetics in the mid 70s. It was, however considered a ‘dangerous additive’ by the FDA . Aspartame was approved shortly after.  … Continued

The confused Fruche Just a quick recap for those who may be new. 1 teaspoon of sugar = 4.2 grams (we’re saying 4 grams here). Sugar that you see on the table is called Sucrose and its 50% glucose and 50% fructose. I am currently eating 40 teaspoons a day and putting my body though … Continued

Sugar soup How can I not start a post about sugar consumption without letting you all know that tennis star Maria Sharapova has decided to change her name to Maria ‘Sugarpova’ for next week’s US Open, to endorse her new confectionary line. I am thinking of switching my name to Damon Gateau (French for cake) … Continued

Grapes of Wrath The term ‘sweetheart’ actually came about in the 13th century from ‘swete hert’ which meant ‘fast beating heart’. The term gradually became associated with love as it was linked to someone who made your heart throb or beat faster. I am currently living off a whole range of goods that could happily … Continued

The World Sugar Party So far this week has registered extremely high on the sugarometer. I’ve had 160 teaspoons, Maria ‘Sugar’pova entered our reality and now a woman today is telling me to ‘Don’t Quit Sugar’. I am not sure if I could actually keep going with this 40 teaspoons per day business, so perhaps … Continued

There Will Be Blood Orange Sugar was once so rare and precious that at parties in the 18th century, people would occasionally carry sugar in small containers and when the need arose they would have a ‘pinch’ of sugar. If that is the hardest drug my child does at a party 18 years from now, … Continued

Red Cans in the Red Centre The place I am visiting today has a population of just under 400 Aboriginal people. In 2007 the town consumed 40,000 litres of soft drink. Of those 40,000 litres, 20,000 litres were ice cold, bubbling black, Coca Cola.   Today has been a long day of travel and I … Continued

The Magic Ones According to an incredible aboriginal woman I interviewed today, before us ‘considerate’ Europeans came along, the sweetest thing the aboriginal community would eat was a honey ant or the nectar of the flower off a special tree that they would mix with water. Oh how things have changed.   It is very … Continued