Today’s people live in continuous sugar shock!

By: Trademagazin Date: 2023. 06. 20. 11:40

We don’t attach as much importance to sugar consumption as it does to our lives and our everyday lives. June 27th, World Diabetes Day, draws attention to the fact that this disease affects more and more people, including children, all over the world. Although this problem could be avoided with a healthy lifestyle and care. Dr. Gábor Lenkei wants to help those who are already affected by diabetes to improve their condition in connection with the World Day, and others to avoid it.

Compared to the fact that Hungary does not have a centuries-old tradition of sugar consumption, it has become a staple food in a short time. It is true that it was already available at the end of the 1400s, but the price was so high that very few people found it on their tables. Even much later, at the end of the 1800s, sugar was not a widespread consumer product. Large-scale cultivation and industrial processing of sugar beet began in Europe in the 19th century, which laid the foundation for its rapid spread. But even in the first decades of the 1900s, they only consumed a tenth as much sugar as today.

“Hungarians eat an average of 400,000 tons of sugar every year, which is 400 million kilograms. Broken down per person, this means the consumption of 40 kg of sugar per year, which is 3.33 kg per month, of which 11 dekagrams of pure sugar per day. It is no exaggeration to say that today sugar consumption is one of the most important sources of health problems”

– drew attention to Dr. Gábor Lenkei, author of the book Censored Health.