Sugar- A Friend or a Villain?

 Sugar has probably replaced many villains across years- oil, additives and so on.

Is it really the villain it is made out to be?

My household always had sugar in our tea, about 2 or 3 cups a day. Or coffee. Most of my aunts lived to be 80 or older, including my mother. They did have arthritis in some cases, but hardly any problems related to sugar intake.. no diabetes.

Apparently, our brain requires some amount of glucose for its functions. Sugar can also provide that, along with other foods, in my view. As long as we don't overdose on it, sugar may not be any more of a villain than many other harmful things we ingest. I am not sure artificial sweeteners are good for us, though they are a big industry and lobby.

What do you think?

Give us our Daily Soap

Here are some new prayers for the modern generation.

1. Give us our daily soap- as in mind-numbing soap opera, not the body-cleaner.

2. Give us a new Facebook profile- a new way to look at ourselves. Mirrors are so old-fashioned. Vanity, thou hast a new FACE!

3. Give us the daily dose of instant wisdom. Some out-of-context quotes from online storehouses which now replace Himalayan Masters and the Oracles of Delphi.

4. Give us a disaster a day, to keep our media alive. With only one condition, God, that I don't figure in any of them.

5. Give us our high fat, high sodium, high sugar diet so we can be on a permanent high.

Amen!