Agave is NOT a Healthy Sweetener!

Agave syrup is becoming a favorite of health-minded folks. But beware as that bubble is burst: agave syrup is neither healthy or natural! Dr. Ingrid Kohlstadt, a fellow of the American College of Nutrition and an associate faculty member at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health has reported:

"Agave is almost all fructose, a highly processed sugar with great marketing."

Refined sugar consumption is definitely something to be concerned about, but FRUCTOSE is even more problematic.

There are two overall reasons fructose is so damaging:

1. Your body metabolizes fructose in a much different way than glucose. Fructose is broken down in your liver just like alcohol and produces many of the side effects of chronic alcohol use, right down to the "beer belly."
2. People are consuming fructose in quantities that are 400-800 percent higher than they were 100 years ago due to its pervasive presence in just about all processed foods

Egads! Agave products have the highest percentage of fructose of any sweeteners on the market, over 50 percent more fructose than high fructose corn syrup!

Agave syrup is fattening! It has about 16 calories per teaspoon which is the same as sucrose (table sugar). The glycemic index is immaterial, once we understand the full extent of the risk this product poses to our health.

Consuming high amounts of sugar is making America FAT and SICK!