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<\n\n124 Ways Sugar Ruins Your Health<\/span><\/p>\n

By Nancy Appleton, PhD — Author of Lick the Sugar Habit<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

1. Sugar can suppress the immune system.<\/p>\n

2. Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in the body.<\/p>\n

3. Sugar can cause hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and crankiness in children.<\/p>\n

4. Sugar can produce a significant rise in triglycerides.<\/p>\n

5. Sugar contributes to the reduction in defense against bacterial infection (infectious diseases).<\/p>\n

6. Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function, the more sugar you eat the more elasticity and function you loose.<\/p>\n

7. Sugar reduces high density lipoproteins.<\/p>\n

8. Sugar leads to chromium deficiency.<\/p>\n

9. Sugar leads to cancer of the breast, ovaries, prostate, and rectum.<\/p>\n

10. Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose.<\/p>\n

11. Sugar causes copper deficiency.<\/p>\n

12. Sugar interferes with absorption of calcium and magnesium.<\/p>\n

13. Sugar can weaken eyesight.<\/p>\n

14. Sugar raises the level of neurotransmitters: dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine.<\/p>\n

15. Sugar can cause hypoglycemia.<\/p>\n

16. Sugar can produce an acidic digestive tract.<\/p>\n

17. Sugar can cause a rapid rise of adrenaline levels in children.<\/p>\n

18. Sugar malabsorption is frequent in patients with functional bowel disease.<\/p>\n

19. Sugar can cause premature aging.<\/p>\n

20. Sugar can lead to alcoholism.<\/p>\n

21. Sugar can cause tooth decay.<\/p>\n

22. Sugar contributes to obesity.<\/p>\n

23. High intake of sugar increases the risk of Crohn’s disease, and ulcerative colitis.<\/p>\n

24. Sugar can cause changes frequently found in person with gastric or duodenal ulcers.<\/p>\n

25. Sugar can cause arthritis.<\/p>\n

26. Sugar can cause asthma.<\/p>\n

27. Sugar greatly assists the uncontrolled growth of Candida Albicans (yeast infections).<\/p>\n

28. Sugar can cause gallstones.<\/p>\n

29. Sugar can cause heart disease.<\/p>\n

30. Sugar can cause appendicitis.<\/p>\n

31. Sugar can cause multiple sclerosis.<\/p>\n

32. Sugar can cause hemorrhoids.<\/p>\n

33. Sugar can cause varicose veins.<\/p>\n

34. Sugar can elevate glucose and insulin responses in oral contraceptive users.<\/p>\n

35. Sugar can lead to periodontal disease.<\/p>\n

36. Sugar can contribute to osteoporosis.<\/p>\n

37. Sugar contributes to saliva acidity.<\/p>\n

38. Sugar can cause a decrease in insulin sensitivity.<\/p>\n

39. Sugar can lower the amount of Vitamin E in the blood.<\/p>\n

40. Sugar can decrease growth hormone.<\/p>\n

41. Sugar can increase cholesterol.<\/p>\n

42. Sugar can increase the systolic blood pressure.<\/p>\n

43. Sugar can cause drowsiness and decreased activity in children.<\/p>\n

44. High sugar intake increases advanced glycation end products (AGEs) (Sugar bound non-enzymatically to protein)<\/p>\n

45. Sugar can interfere with the absorption of protein.<\/p>\n

46. Sugar causes food allergies.<\/p>\n

47. Sugar can contribute to diabetes.<\/p>\n

48. Sugar can cause toxemia during pregnancy.<\/p>\n

49. Sugar can contribute to eczema in children.<\/p>\n

50. Sugar can cause cardiovascular disease.<\/p>\n

51. Sugar can impair the structure of DNA<\/p>\n

52. Sugar can change the structure of protein.<\/p>\n

53. Sugar can make our skin age by changing the structure of collagen.<\/p>\n

54. Sugar can cause cataracts.<\/p>\n

55. Sugar can cause emphysema.<\/p>\n

56. Sugar can cause atherosclerosis.<\/p>\n

57. Sugar can promote an elevation of low density lipoproteins (LDL).<\/p>\n

58. High sugar intake can impair the physiological homeostasis of many systems in the body.<\/p>\n

59. Sugar lowers the enzymes ability to function.<\/p>\n

60. Sugar intake is higher in people with Parkinson’s disease.<\/p>\n

61. Sugar can cause a permanent altering the way the proteins act in the body.<\/p>\n

62. Sugar can enlarge the liver by making the liver cells divide.<\/p>\n

63. Sugar can increase the amount of liver fat.<\/p>\n

64. Sugar can enlarge the kidney and produce pathological changes in it.<\/p>\n

65. Sugar can damage the pancreas.<\/p>\n

66. Sugar can increase the body’s fluid retention.<\/p>\n

67. Sugar is enemy #1 of the bowel movement.<\/p>\n

68. Sugar can cause myopia (nearsightedness).<\/p>\n

69. Sugar can compromise the lining of the capillaries.<\/p>\n

70. Sugar can make the tendons more brittle.<\/p>\n

71. Sugar can cause headaches, including migraine.<\/p>\n

72. Sugar plays a role in pancreatic cancer in women.<\/p>\n

73. Sugar can adversely affect school children’s grades and cause learning disorders.<\/p>\n

74. Sugar can cause an increase in delta, alpha, and theta brain waves.<\/p>\n

75. Sugar can cause depression.<\/p>\n

76. Sugar increases the risk of gastric cancer.<\/p>\n

77. Sugar and cause dyspepsia (indigestion).<\/p>\n

78. Sugar can increase your risk of getting gout.<\/p>\n

79. Sugar can increase the levels of glucose in an oral glucose tolerance test over the ingestion of complex carbohydrates.<\/p>\n

80. Sugar can increase the insulin responses in humans consuming high-sugar diets compared to low sugar diets.<\/p>\n

81 High refined sugar diet reduces learning capacity.<\/p>\n

82. Sugar can cause less effective functioning of two blood proteins, albumin, and lipoproteins, which may reduce the body’s ability to handle fat and cholesterol.<\/p>\n

83. Sugar can contribute to Alzheimer’s disease.<\/p>\n

84. Sugar can cause platelet adhesiveness.<\/p>\n

85. Sugar can cause hormonal imbalance; some hormones become under active and others become overactive.<\/p>\n

86. Sugar can lead to the formation of kidney stones.<\/p>\n

87. Sugar can lead to the hypothalamus to become highly sensitive to a large variety of stimuli.<\/p>\n

88. Sugar can lead to dizziness.<\/p>\n

89. Diets high in sugar can cause free radicals and oxidative stress.<\/p>\n

90. High sucrose diets of subjects with peripheral vascular disease significantly increase platelet adhesion.<\/p>\n

91. High sugar diet can lead to biliary tract cancer.<\/p>\n

92. Sugar feeds cancer.<\/p>\n

93. High sugar consumption of pregnant adolescents is associated with a twofold increased risk for delivering a small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infant.<\/p>\n

94. High sugar consumption can lead to substantial decrease in gestation duration among adolescents.<\/p>\n

95. Sugar slows food’s travel time through the gastrointestinal tract.<\/p>\n

96. Sugar increases the concentration of bile acids in stools and bacterial enzymes in the colon. This can modify bile to produce cancer- causing compounds and colon cancer.<\/p>\n

97. Sugar increases estradiol (the most potent form of naturally occurring estrogen) in men.<\/p>\n

98. Sugar combines and destroys phosphatase, an enzyme, which makes the process of digestion more difficult.<\/p>\n

99. Sugar can be a risk factor of gallbladder cancer.<\/p>\n

100. Sugar is an addictive substance.<\/p>\n

101. Sugar can be intoxicating, similar to alcohol.<\/p>\n

102. Sugar can exacerbate PMS.<\/p>\n

103. Sugar given to premature babies can affect the amount of carbon dioxide they produce.<\/p>\n

104. Decrease in sugar intake can increase emotional stability.<\/p>\n

105. The body changes sugar into 2 to 5 times more fat in the bloodstream than it does starch.<\/p>\n

106. The rapid absorption of sugar promotes excessive food intake in obese subjects.<\/p>\n

107. Sugar can worsen the symptoms of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).<\/p>\n

108. Sugar adversely affects urinary electrolyte composition.<\/p>\n

109. Sugar can slow down the ability of the adrenal glands to function.<\/p>\n

110. Sugar has the potential of inducing abnormal metabolic processes in a normal healthy individual and to promote chronic degenerative diseases.<\/p>\n

111..IVs (intravenous feedings) of sugar water can cut off oxygen to the brain.<\/p>\n

112. High sucrose intake could be an important risk factor in lung cancer.<\/p>\n

113. Sugar increases the risk of polio.<\/p>\n

114. High sugar intake can cause epileptic seizures.<\/p>\n

115. Sugar causes high blood pressure in obese people.<\/p>\n

116. In Intensive Care Units: Limiting sugar saves lives.<\/p>\n

117. Sugar may induce cell death.<\/p>\n

118. Sugar may impair the physiological homeostasis of many systems in living organisms.<\/p>\n

119. In juvenile rehabilitation camps, when children were put on a low sugar diet, there was a 44% drop in antisocial behavior.<\/p>\n

120. Sugar can cause gastric cancer.<\/p>\n

121. Sugar dehydrates newborns.<\/p>\n

122. Sugar can cause gum disease.<\/p>\n

123. Sugar increases the estradiol in young men.<\/p>\n

124. Sugar can cause low birth-weight babies.<\/p>\n

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