Nutrition & diet
Did you know 74 ways by which sugar can ruin your health?
1. Sugar can suppress your immune system and impair your defences against infectious disease.
2. Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in your body: it causes chromium and copper deficiencies and interferes with absorption of calcium and magnesium.
3. Sugar can cause a rapid rise of adrenaline, hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty in concentrating, and crankiness in children.
4. Sugar can produce a significant rise in total cholesterol, triglycerides and bad cholesterol and a decrease in good cholesterol.
5. Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function.
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.
7. Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose and can cause reactive hypoglycemia.
8. Sugar can weaken eyesight.
9. Sugar can cause many problems with the
gastrointestinal tract including: an acidic
digestive tract, indigestion, malabsorption
in patients with functional bowel disease,
increased risk of Crohn’s disease, and
ulcerative colitis.
10. Sugar can cause premature aging.
11. Sugar can lead to alcoholism.
12. Sugar can cause your saliva to become
acidic; it leads to tooth decay and periodontal
disease.
13. Sugar contributes to obesity.
14. Sugar can cause auto-immune diseases
such as arthritis, asthma, multiple sclerosis.
15. Sugar greatly assists the uncontrolled
growth of Candida albicans (yeast infections).
16. Sugar can cause gallstones.
17. Sugar can cause appendicitis.
18. Sugar can cause hemorrhoids.
19. Sugar can cause varicose veins.
20. Sugar can elevate glucose and insulin
responses in oral contraceptive users.
21. Sugar can contribute to osteoporosis.
22. Sugar can cause a decrease in your insulin
sensitivity thereby causing an abnormally
high insulin levels and eventually diabetes.
23. Sugar can lower your Vitamin E levels.
24. Sugar can increase your systolic blood
pressure.
25. Sugar can cause drowsiness and decreased
activity in children.
26. High sugar intake increases advanced
glycation end products (AGEs) (sugar
molecules attaching to and thereby damaging proteins in the body).
27. Sugar can interfere with your absorption
of protein.
28. Sugar causes food allergies.
29. Sugar can cause toxemia during pregnancy.
30. Sugar can contribute to eczema in children.
31. Sugar can cause atherosclerosis and cardio
vascular disease.
32. Sugar can impair the structure of your DNA.
33. Sugar can change the structure of protein
and cause a permanent alteration of the
way the proteins act in your body.
34. Sugar can make your skin age by changing
the structure of collagen.
35. Sugar can cause cataracts and shortsightedness.
36. Sugar can cause emphysema.
37. High sugar intake can impair the physiological homeostasis of many systems in
your body.
38. Sugar lowers the ability of enzymes to
function.
39. Sugar intake is higher in people with
Parkinson’s disease.
40. Sugar can increase the size of your liver by
making your liver cells divide and it can
increase the amount of liver fat.
41. Sugar can increase kidney size and produce
pathological changes in the kidney such as
the formation of kidney stones.
42. Sugar can damage your pancreas.
43. Sugar can increase your body’s fluid
retention.
44. Sugar is enemy #1 of your bowel movement.
45. Sugar can compromise the lining of your
capillaries.
46. Sugar can make your tendons more brittle.
47. Sugar can cause headaches, including
migraines.
48. Sugar can reduce the learning capacity,
adversely affect schoolchildren’s grades
andcause learning disorders.
49. Sugar can cause an increase in delta, alpha,
and theta brain waves which can alter your
mind’s ability to think clearly.
50. Sugar can cause depression.
51. Sugar can increase your risk of gout.
52. Sugar can increase your risk of Alzheimer’s
disease.
53. Sugar can cause hormonal imbalances
such as: increasing estrogen in men,
exacerbating PMS, and decreasing growth
hormone.
54. Sugar can lead to dizziness.
55. Diets high in sugar will increase free
radicals and oxidative stress.
56. High sucrose diets of subjects with perip
heral vascular disease significantly increases
platelet adhesion.
57. High sugar consumption by pregnant
adolescents can lead to substantial decrease in
gestation duration and is associated with a
twofold increased risk for delivering a
small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infant.
58. Sugar is an addictive substance.
59. Sugar can be intoxicating, similar to
alcohol.
60. Sugar given to premature babies can affect
the amount of carbon dioxide they produce.
61. A decrease in sugar intake can increase
emotional stability.
62. Your body changes sugar into 2 to 5 times
more fat in the bloodstream than it does
starch.
63. The rapid absorption of sugar promotes
excessive food intake in obese subjects.
64. Sugar can worsen the symptoms of children
with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD).
65. Sugar adversely affects urinary electrolyte
composition.
66. Sugar can slow down the ability of your
adrenal glands to function.
67. Sugar has the potential of inducing abnormal
metabolic processes in a normal healthy
individual and to promote chronic
degenerative diseases.
68. I.V.s (intravenous feedings) of sugar water
can cut off oxygen to your brain.
69. Sugar increases your risk of polio.
70. High sugar intake can cause epileptic
seizures.
71. Sugar causes high blood pressure in obese
people.
72. In intensive care units, limiting sugar
intake saves lives.
73. Sugar may induce cell death.
74. In juvenile rehabilitation camps, when
children were put on a low sugar diet,
there was a 44 per cent drop in anti-social
behaviour.
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