The Sweetener Debate: The Truth About Agave

A spoonful of sugar may help the medicine go down, however the average American consumes about 150 pounds of sugar a year, and is thought to be responsible for the epidemic of obesity, diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is a combination of 2 or more of the following: high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high triglycerides and increased waist to hip ratio (belly fat) and low HDL. Sugar is not so sweet when it comes to health effects. It can age you fast.