How Sugar Ruins Your Health**
In addition to throwing off your body's homeostasis and wreaking havoc on your metabolic processes, excess sugar has a number of other significant consequences.
Nancy Appleton, PhD, author of the book “Lick the Sugar Habit" contributed an extensive list of the many ways sugar can ruin your health from a vast number of medical journals and other scientific publications.
1.
Sugar can
suppress your immune system and impair your defenses against infectious disease.[6]
[7]
2.
Sugar
upsets the mineral relationships in your body: causes chromium and copper
deficiencies and interferes with absorption of calcium and magnesium.[8]
[9] [10] [11]
3.
Sugar can
cause a rapid rise of adrenaline, hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty
concentrating, and crankiness in children.[12]
[13]
4.
Sugar can
produce a significant rise in total cholesterol, triglycerides and bad
cholesterol and a decrease in good cholesterol.[14]
[15] [16] [17]
5.
Sugar
causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function.[18]
6.
Sugar
feeds cancer cells and has been connected with the development of cancer of the
breast, ovaries, prostate, rectum, pancreas, biliary tract, lung, gallbladder
and stomach.[19]
[20] [21]
[22] [23]
[24] [25]
7.
Sugar can
increase fasting levels of glucose and can cause reactive hypoglycemia.[26]
27]
8.
Sugar can
weaken eyesight.[28]
9.
Sugar can
cause many problems with the gastrointestinal tract including: an acidic
digestive tract, indigestion, mal-absorption in patients with functional bowel
disease, increased risk of Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis.[29]
[30] [31]
[32] [33]
10.
Sugar can
cause premature aging.[34] In fact, the single most important factor that
accelerates aging is insulin, which is triggered by sugar.
11.
Sugar can
lead to alcoholism.[35]
12.
Sugar can
cause your saliva to become acidic, tooth decay, and periodontal disease.[36]
[37] [38]
13.
Sugar
contributes to obesity. [39]
14.
Sugar can
cause autoimmune diseases such as: arthritis, asthma, and multiple sclerosis.[40]
[41] [42]
15.
Sugar
greatly assists the uncontrolled growth of Candida Albicans (yeast infections) [43]
16.
Sugar can
cause gallstones.[44]
17.
Sugar can
cause appendicitis.[45]
18.
Sugar can
cause hemorrhoids.[46]
19.
Sugar can
cause varicose veins.[47]
20.
Sugar can
elevate glucose and insulin responses in oral contraceptive users.[48]
21.
Sugar can
contribute to osteoporosis.[49]
22.
Sugar can
cause a decrease in your insulin sensitivity thereby causing an abnormally high
insulin levels and eventually diabetes.[50]
51] [52]
23.
Sugar can
lower your Vitamin E levels.[53]
24.
Sugar can
increase your systolic blood pressure.[54]
25.
Sugar can
cause drowsiness and decreased activity in children.[55]
26.
High
sugar intake increases advanced glycation end products (AGEs), which are sugar
molecules that attach to and damage proteins in your body. AGEs speed up the
aging of cells, which may contribute to a variety of chronic and fatal diseases.
[56]
27.
Sugar can
interfere with your absorption of protein.[57]
28.
Sugar
causes food allergies.[58]
29.
Sugar can
cause toxemia during pregnancy.[59]
30.
Sugar can
contribute to eczema in children.[60]
31.
Sugar can
cause atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.[61]
[62]
32.
Sugar can
impair the structure of your DNA.[63]
33.
Sugar can
change the structure of protein and cause a permanent alteration of the way the
proteins act in your body.[64]
[65]
34.
Sugar can
make your skin age by changing the structure of collagen. [66]
35.
Sugar can
cause cataracts and nearsightedness.[67]
[68]
36.
Sugar can
cause emphysema.[69]
37.
High
sugar intake can impair the physiological homeostasis of many systems in your
body.[70]
38.
Sugar
lowers the ability of enzymes to function.[71]
39.
Sugar
intake is higher in people with Parkinson's disease.[72]
40.
Sugar can
increase the size of your liver by making your liver cells divide, and it can
increase the amount of fat in your liver, leading to fatty liver disease.[73]
[74]
41.
Sugar can
increase kidney size and produce pathological changes in the kidney such as the
formation of kidney stones.[75]
[76]
Fructose is helping to drive up rates of kidney disease.
42.
Sugar can
damage your pancreas.[77]
43.
Sugar can
increase your body's fluid retention.[78]
44.
Sugar is
number one enemy of your bowel movement.[79]
45.
Sugar can
compromise the lining of your capillaries.[80]
46.
Sugar can
make your tendons more brittle.[81]
47.
Sugar can
cause headaches, including migraines.[82]
48.
Sugar can
reduce the learning capacity, adversely affect your children's grades and cause
learning disorders.[83]
[84]
49.
Sugar can
cause an increase in delta, alpha, and theta brain waves, which can alter your
ability to think clearly.[85]
50.
Sugar can
cause depression.[86]
51.
Sugar can
increase your risk of gout.[87]
52.
Sugar can
increase your risk of Alzheimer's disease.[88]
MRI studies show that adults 60 and older who have high uric acid are four
to five times more likely to have vascular dementia, the second most common form
of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease.
53.
Sugar can
cause hormonal imbalances such as: increasing estrogen in men, exacerbating PMS,
and decreasing growth hormone.[89]
[90] [91] [92]
54.
Sugar can
lead to dizziness.[93]
55.
Diets
high in sugar will increase free radicals and oxidative stress.[94]
56.
A high
sucrose diet of subjects with peripheral vascular disease significantly
increases platelet adhesion.[95]
57.
High
sugar consumption by pregnant adolescents can lead to a substantial decrease in
gestation duration and is associated with a twofold-increased risk for
delivering a small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infant.[96]
[97]
58.
Sugar is
an addictive substance.[98]
59.
Sugar can
be intoxicating, similar to alcohol.[99]
60.
Sugar
given to premature babies can affect the amount of carbon dioxide they produce.[100]
61.
Decrease
in sugar intake can increase emotional stability.[101]
62.
Your body
changes sugar into 2 to 5 times more fat in the bloodstream than it does starch.[102]
63.
The rapid
absorption of sugar promotes excessive food intake in obese subjects.[103]
64.
Sugar can
worsen the symptoms of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD).[104]
65.
Sugar
adversely affects urinary electrolyte composition.[105]
66.
Sugar can
impair the function of your adrenal glands.[106]
67.
Sugar has
the potential of inducing abnormal metabolic processes in normal, healthy
individuals, thereby promoting chronic degenerative diseases.[107]
68.
Intravenous
feedings (IVs) of sugar water can cut off oxygen to your brain.[108]
69.
Sugar
increases your risk of polio.[109]
70.
High
sugar intake can cause epileptic seizures.[110]
71.
Sugar
causes high blood pressure in obese people.[111]
72.
In
intensive care units, limiting sugar saves lives.[112]
73.
Sugar may
induce cell death.[113]
74.
In
juvenile rehabilitation centers, when children were put on low sugar diets,
there was a 44 percent drop in antisocial behavior.[114]
75.
Sugar
dehydrates newborns.[115]
76.
Sugar can
cause gum disease.[116]
It
should be exceptionally clear how damaging sugar is. You simply cannot achieve
your highest degree of health and vitality if you are consuming a significant
amount of it.
Fortunately,
your body has an amazing ability to heal itself when given the basic nutrition
it needs, and your liver has an incredible ability to regenerate. If you start
making changes today, your health WILL begin to improve, returning you to the
state of vitality that nature intended.
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