Secret Sugar

Last night on Sixty Minutes they covered a story about the amount of hidden sugar found in common foods that people consume every single day. I think it’s fantastic that this type of investigation is being publicised on mainstream television, as it is obvious from the copious quantities of processed foods on the supermarket shelf, that the majority of consumers are still unaware of just what goes into processed foods.

The sugar issue is a big one. Refined white sugar is a highly addictive product, targeting pleasure centres in the brain that make us feel good – for a …read more