The liver converts excess fructose into fat after using the necessary amount of carbohydrates from sugar and the excess fat is stored in the liver, cells from the body and expelled into the blood. which causes fatty liver or liver dysfunction, obesity and related diseases, as well as high blood pressure as well as cardiovascular diseases such as heart attacks and strokes (Cohen; Goldwert). Generally speaking, dietary fat is believed to cause obesity. In the 1980s, scientists blamed dietary fat as the leading cause of obesity and cardiovascular disease (Syed and Davidson). So food companies began removing fat from foods and, to compensate for their cardboard taste, adding more sugar, mainly in the form of cheap high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), which became the savior of the food industry. But over the past 30 years, with less fat, cases of obesity and diabetes have only increased in number. This is not only because people eat more sugar in processed foods/fast food, but also HFCS disrupts the body's signal system by never informing the brain to stop eating. It suppresses the hormone leptin, which sends a signal to the brain to be “satiated,” so people eat more than they need, leading to widespread abnormal obesity (Bray). Even sadder news from nephrologist Richard Johnson is that the sugar rush depletes the body's energy and makes it harder for people to move, true to the term "couch potato" (Cohen). When it comes to cardiovascular disease, blood that is too sweet damages blood vessels and makes it easy for dangerous LDL cholesterol to invade and cause plaque that leads to heart attacks or strokes (Lund University). Additionally, a recent finding from the University of California-Davis reports that LDL cholesterol, the byproduct of excess... middle of paper ...... ction"). People prefer to choose sugary products now rather than being conscious and cautious about their future health. Moreover, its disadvantages appear slowly or sneakily, it is difficult to blame sugar directly, and people are easily misled by companies. Food companies spend a lot of money on lobbying to keep the facts secret (Syed & Davidson Plus, they make food packaging misleading; Sugar can be disguised under more than 50 different names: HFCS, molasses, corn syrup, dextrose). … (Pikul) Additionally, processed foods such as pasta sauce contain 12g of sugar per half cup (“Better Pasta”) Yes, it's almost impossible to escape sugar 77% of packaged foods contain; sugar (Lustig, “The Sugar-Addiction”). But people don't know the facts well. The average sugar intake of Americans is 22 teaspoons per day, while the American Heart Association suggests only 6 teaspoons for women and 9 for men (“Sugar 101”).