“Added sugars have become such a predominant feature of the North American diet that we can’t help but recognize their major contribution to excess calories,” says Linda Van Horn, a professor of preventive medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. The naturally occurring sugars found in fruits and vegetables are not the problem. It’s the refined white sugar, the high fructose corn syrup, the glucose-fructose, the liquid invert sugar and other manufactured forms of sugar that are the real problem. This is an especially big problem because sugar is everywhere in our foods. There have been 146 reasons that sugar ruins our health documented! Rest assured that I don’t intend to cover all of them – I do, however, want to outline some of the more major health risks posed by too much sugar.