The Experiment
Today I ate a full size candy bar for the first time in many years. I had been craving a Butterfinger all week after finding out they are gluten free, and having a very stressful, tiring week. Several things happened to me during the four or so bites it took to eat the thing:
1. I died
2. After coming back to life, I discovered I was now obese.
3. I started sweating from the sugar rush.
4. I read the label,
5. and fainted. These things have more sugar than a can of pop! And the same amount of Calories as a small meal!
I then had to chug my blissfully sugarless coffee to get the sugar off my teeth (Butterfingers stick like crazy!) and get rid of the nasty sugar aftertaste.
As a comparison, I calculated the amount of sugar I put into the Northern corn bread (read: sweet) that I made the other night, and thought were exceptionally sweet:
24tsp * 4g sugar/ tsp / 12 servings per muffin tin = 8 GRAMS.
Yeah. At 45g sugar per candy bar, I think I just ate my year's supply of sugar.
1. I died
2. After coming back to life, I discovered I was now obese.
3. I started sweating from the sugar rush.
4. I read the label,
5. and fainted. These things have more sugar than a can of pop! And the same amount of Calories as a small meal!
I then had to chug my blissfully sugarless coffee to get the sugar off my teeth (Butterfingers stick like crazy!) and get rid of the nasty sugar aftertaste.
As a comparison, I calculated the amount of sugar I put into the Northern corn bread (read: sweet) that I made the other night, and thought were exceptionally sweet:
24tsp * 4g sugar/ tsp / 12 servings per muffin tin = 8 GRAMS.
Yeah. At 45g sugar per candy bar, I think I just ate my year's supply of sugar.