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The Sugar Canary

The Sugar Canary. The Sugar canary is falling off his perch because he's so overweight. He was looking to avoid sugar as he heard it was one of the biggest problems causing weight gain. He made sure to look at food labels and skip ones that had a lot of "Sugar". But he didn't see the " Hidden Sugar " The warning coming from this canary? He didn't look for these 61 synonyms for sugar and then add them all up to find how much sugar was really in his supermarket purchase. So don't forget! , things like Maltol, Barley Malt, Treacle, and Carob syrup are just other words for sugar.  Agave nectar Confectioner's sugar Glucose solids Muscovado Barbados sugar Corn sweetener Golden sugar Palm sugar Barley malt Corn syrup Golden syrup Panocha Barley malt syrup Corn syrup solids Grape sugar Powdered sugar Beet sugar Date sugar HFCS (High-Fructose Corn Syrup) Raw sugar Brown sugar Dehydrated cane juice Honey Refiner's syrup Buttered syru...
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Why "Share the Canary" ?

Distortion, fabrication, and falsification on the net, advertising, and in the news is suffocating our lives Coal miners once had a suffocating problem. They could be in an area of a mine that was choking and killing them without realizing it. They found that a canary was affected by toxins much faster. Canaries falling in their cage would alert them to get out. Many of us live in situations that are choking our creativity, our happiness and our lives. Whether it's politics, friends, the neighborhood or the world of today, we need to be alert, we need a canary. Each of us can help by Sharing a canary story. What has suffocated you and how can you alert others to the dangers? -  # Share the Canary This is not about sharing your point of view, your side of the story. What we need to find are  deceptions that point us in one direction or the other. There are many powerful forces, with different agendas, that work everyday to put a cloud over our heads. We need a lot of...
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