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In addition to throwing
off the body's homeostasis (natural balance), excess sugar results
in a large number of significant health problems. The following
is a list of some of sugar's metabolic consequences from a variety
of medical journals and other scientific publications.
- Sugar can suppress your immune system and impair your defenses
against infectious disease.
- Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in your body: causes
chromium and copper deficiencies and interferes with absorption
of calcium and magnesium.
- Sugar can cause can cause a rapid rise of adrenaline, hyperactivity,
anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and crankiness in children.
- Sugar can produce a significant rise in total cholesterol, triglycerides
and bad cholesterol and a decrease in good cholesterol.
- Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function.
- 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.
- Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose and can cause reactive
hypoglycemia.
- Sugar can weaken eyesight.
- 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.
- Sugar can cause premature aging.
- Sugar can lead to alcoholism.
- Sugar can cause your saliva to become acidic, tooth decay, and
periodontal disease.
- Sugar contributes to obesity.
- Sugar can cause autoimmune diseases such as: arthritis, asthma,
and multiple sclerosis.
- Sugar greatly assists the uncontrolled growth of Candida, Albicans
(yeast infections).
- Sugar can cause gallstones.
- Sugar can cause appendicitis.
- Sugar can cause hemorrhoids.
- Sugar can cause varicose veins.
- Sugar can elevate glucose and insulin responses in oral contraceptive
users.
- Sugar can contribute to osteoporosis.
- Sugar can cause a decrease in your insulin sensitivity thereby
causing an abnormally high insulin levels and eventually diabetes.
- Sugar can lower your Vitamin E levels.
- Sugar can increase your systolic blood pressure.
- Sugar can cause drowsiness and decreased activity in children.
- Sugar can interfere with your absorption of protein.
- Sugar causes food allergies.
- Sugar can cause toxemia during pregnancy.
- Sugar can contribute to eczema in children.
- Sugar can cause arteriosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.
- Sugar can impair the structure of your DNA.
- Sugar can change the structure of protein and cause a permanent
alteration to the way proteins act in your body.
- Sugar can make your skin age by changing the structure of collagen.
- Sugar can cause cataracts and nearsightedness.
- Sugar can cause emphysema.
- High sugar intake can impair the physiological balance of many
systems in your body.
- Sugar lowers the ability of enzymes to function.
- Sugar intake is higher in people with Parkinson's disease.
- Sugar can increase the size of your liver by making your liver
cells divide and it can increase the amount of liver fat.
- Sugar can increase kidney size and produce pathological changes
in the kidney such as the formation of kidney stones.
- Sugar can damage your pancreas.
- Sugar can increase your body's fluid retention.
- Sugar is enemy #1 of your bowel movement.
- Sugar can compromise the lining of your capillaries.
- Sugar can make your tendons more brittle.
- Sugar can cause headaches, including migraines.
- Sugar can reduce the learning capacity and adversely affect
school children's grades and cause learning disorders.
- Sugar can cause an increase in delta, alpha, and theta brain
waves, which can alter your mind's ability to think clearly.
- Sugar can cause depression.
- Sugar can increase your risk of gout.
- Sugar can increase your risk of Alzheimer's disease.
- Sugar can cause hormonal imbalances such as: increasing estrogen
in men, exacerbating PMS, and decreasing growth hormone.
- Sugar can lead to dizziness.
- Diets high in sugar will increase free radicals and oxidative
stress.
- High sugar consumption of pregnant adolescents can lead to a
two-fold increased risk for delivering a small infant.
- Sugar is an addictive substance.
- Sugar can be intoxicating, similar to alcohol.
- Sugar given to premature babies can affect the amount of carbon
dioxide they produce.
- Decrease in sugar intake can increase emotional stability.
- Your body changes sugar into 2 to 5 times more fat in the bloodstream
than it does starch.
- The rapid absorption of sugar promotes excessive food intake
in obese subjects.
- Sugar can worsen the symptoms of children with attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
- Sugar adversely affects urinary electrolyte composition.
- Sugar can slow down the ability of your adrenal glands to function.
- Sugar has the potential of inducing abnormal metabolic processes
in a normal healthy individual and to promote chronic degenerative
diseases.
- Intravenous feeding of sugar water can cut off oxygen to your
brain.
- Sugar increases your risk of polio.
- High sugar intake can cause epileptic seizures.
- Sugar causes high blood pressure in obese people.
- In intensive care units: Limiting sugar saves lives.
- Sugar may induce cell death.
- In juvenile rehabilitation camps, when children were put on
a low sugar diet, there was a 44 percent drop in antisocial behavior.
- Sugar dehydrates newborns.
- Sugar can cause gum disease.
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