Sugar consumption

vladimir · Post by **vladimir** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 1:02 pm

We often complain Khmers put sugar in everything, but until I started noticing what is in food, I didn't realise just how pervasive the encouraged addiction is, even in weren't diets.

In fact I'm wondering which society eats more sugar, a typical western one or a Khmer one.

Back home there is sugar in almost every sauce we buy, every can of food, almost everything we drink except (maybe) water.

Is the Khmer diet really that much more unhealthy than ours? (wrt sugar content only)

rick_o'shea · Post by **rick_o'shea** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 2:25 pm

My diet is my diet, not our diet. I don't add sugar to food and don't eat much processed foods at all. I can say with certainty that I don't eat much sugar.

Anchor Moy · Post by **Anchor Moy** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 2:33 pm

Cheap food & drink typically contain a lot of salt and/or sugar plus flavouring to replace the content.
But, certain things in Cambodia stand out as sweeter, like bread for example.

wackyjacky · Post by **wackyjacky** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 2:50 pm

Current data seems to indicated that artificial sweeteners are worse for you than the sugar. I just removed them from my diet after 20+ years. I only used them for coffee and tea anyway. Many doctors in the US are trying to get sugar and corn syrup declared poisons by the FDA. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

JBTrain · Post by **JBTrain** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 2:55 pm

vladimir wrote:We often complain Khmers put sugar in everything, but until I started noticing what is in food, I didn't realise just how pervasive the encouraged addiction is, even in weren't diets.

In fact I'm wondering which society eats more sugar, a typical western one or a Khmer one.

Back home there is sugar in almost every sauce we buy, every can of food, almost everything we drink except (maybe) water.

Is the Khmer diet really that much more unhealthy than ours? (wrt sugar content only)

You're projecting. Not every westerner buys their food in cans.

cptrelentless · Post by **cptrelentless** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 4:03 pm

They seem to add sugar to most soups and stews to counter the acidity of the flavours they use. Also I have a beef (heh) with the tomato sauces they make, as in pretend Italian stuff that's popular here in SHV, which are always too sweet. They don't ripen their tomatoes enough so fling sugar in. They drink a lot of sugary energy drinks like that vile Samurai stuff. Still, at least it's cane sugar and not High Fructose corn syrup that gets chucked into everything in the US.

Kuroneko · Post by **Kuroneko** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 4:04 pm

The increase in sugar consumption is to say the least alarming, I cut it out of my diet around 1970. The worst culprit I think is HCFS. Some research at Princeton University linking HCFS to obesity http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/arch ... topstories and interesting article here http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-h ... 61913.html

Cambodia went from consuming 0.6 kg sugar per capita in 1991 to 17kg per capita in 2012 http://www.mah.se/CAPP/Globalsugar/Risk ... tion-WPRO/

Increase in per capita sucrose consumption UK 1815-1970

Increase in refined sugar consumption per capita in the US 1970-2000
Note the alarming increase in HCFS
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/81/2/341.full

frank lee bent · Post by **frank lee bent** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 4:10 pm

I have lost 8 kg in 6 months

vladimir · Post by **vladimir** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 4:50 pm

JBTrain wrote:
vladimir wrote:We often complain Khmers put sugar in everything, but until I started noticing what is in food, I didn't realise just how pervasive the encouraged addiction is, even in weren't diets.

In fact I'm wondering which society eats more sugar, a typical western one or a Khmer one.

Back home there is sugar in almost every sauce we buy, every can of food, almost everything we drink except (maybe) water.

Is the Khmer diet really that much more unhealthy than ours? (wrt sugar content only)
You're projecting. Not every westerner buys their food in cans.

I'm not projecting. Nowhere did I say that every westerner buys food in cans. But I would estimate that close to 80% have at some stage purchased canned food regularly., basing that on urban populations and alack of awareness.

And if we compare a westerner living in America, for example, with a Khmer living in Cambodia, I have absolutely no doubt you will find that the westerners are way ahead in buying canned/bottled foods.

And don't forget boxed cereal, what do you put on those cornflakes? How much sugar is in them already?

There is a shitload of sugar in something very commonly used like ketchup/tomato sauce, for example, as well as a lot of sodium and preservatives, colouring etc.

I'm just trying to find out how much sugar an average westerner consumes in America in a month, compared to the average Khmer living in Cambodia. I suspect the westerner consumes more.

vladimir · Post by **vladimir** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 4:54 pm

Kuroneko, I read somewhere that fructose has been deliberately used because it shuts down the body's message telling us we are full. So the companies are addicting us so we buy more. Correct? And when people tried to get it banned, the fast food clowns used lawyers to get around it.

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