tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10854425.post-1128531743367900582005-10-05T13:01:00.000-04:002005-10-05T13:19:58.323-04:00146 Reasons Why Sugar Is Ruining Your Health1. Sugar can suppress the immune system.<br /><br />2. Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in the body.<br /><br />3. Sugar can cause hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and crankiness in children.<br /><br />4. Sugar can produce a significant rise in triglycerides.<br /><br />5. Sugar contributes to the reduction in defense against bacterial infection (infectious diseases).<br /><br />6. Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function, the more sugar you eat the more elasticity and function you loose.<br /><br />7. Sugar reduces high density lipoproteins.<br /><br />8. Sugar leads to chromium deficiency.<br /><br />9 Sugar leads to cancer of the ovaries.<br /><br />10. Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose.<br /><br />11. Sugar causes copper deficiency.<br /><br />12. Sugar interferes with absorption of calcium and magnesium.<br /><br />13. Sugar can weaken eyesight.<br /><br />14. Sugar raises the level of a neurotransmitters: dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine.<br /><br />15. Sugar can cause hypoglycemia. <br /><br />16. Sugar can produce an acidic digestive tract.<br /><br />17. Sugar can cause a rapid rise of adrenaline levels in children.<br /><br />18. Sugar malabsorption is frequent in patients with functional bowel disease.<br /><br />19. Sugar can cause premature aging.<br /><br />20. Sugar can lead to alcoholism.<br /><br />21. Sugar can cause tooth decay.<br /><br />22. Sugar contributes to obesity<br /><br />23. High intake of sugar increases the risk of Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis.<br /><br />24. Sugar can cause changes frequently found in person with gastric or duodenal ulcers.<br /><br />25. Sugar can cause arthritis.<br /><br />26. Sugar can cause asthma.<br /><br />27. Sugar greatly assists the uncontrolled growth of Candida Albicans (yeast infections).<br /><br />28. Sugar can cause gallstones.<br /><br />29. Sugar can cause heart disease.<br /><br />30. Sugar can cause appendicitis.<br /><br />31. Sugar can cause multiple sclerosis.<br /><br />32. Sugar can cause hemorrhoids.<br /><br />33. Sugar can cause varicose veins.<br /><br />34. Sugar can elevate glucose and insulin responses in oral contraceptive users.<br /><br />35. Sugar can lead to periodontal disease.<br /><br />36. Sugar can contribute to osteoporosis.<br /><br />37. Sugar contributes to saliva acidity.<br /><br />38. Sugar can cause a decrease in insulin sensitivity.<br /><br />39. Sugar can lower the amount of Vitamin E (alpha-Tocopherol in the blood.<br /><br />40. Sugar can decrease growth hormone.<br /><br />41. Sugar can increase cholesterol.<br /><br />42. Sugar can increase the systolic blood pressure.<br /><br />43. Sugar can cause drowsiness and decreased activity in children.<br /><br />44. High sugar intake increases advanced glycation end products (AGEs)(Sugar bound non-enzymatically to protein)<br /><br />45. Sugar can interfere with the absorption of protein.<br /><br />46. Sugar causes food allergies.<br /><br />47. Sugar can contribute to diabetes.<br /><br />48. Sugar can cause toxemia during pregnancy.<br /><br />49. Sugar can contribute to eczema in children.<br /><br />50. Sugar can cause cardiovascular disease.<br /><br />51. Sugar can impair the structure of DNA<br /><br />52. Sugar can change the structure of protein.<br /><br />53. Sugar can make our skin age by changing the structure of collagen.<br /><br />54. Sugar can cause cataracts.<br /><br />55. Sugar can cause emphysema.<br /><br />56. Sugar can cause atherosclerosis.<br /><br />57. Sugar can promote an elevation of low density lipoproteins (LDL).<br /><br />58. High sugar intake can impair the physiological homeostasis of many systems in the body.<br /><br />59. Sugar lowers the enzymes ability to function.<br /><br />60. Sugar intake is higher in people with Parkinson’s disease.<br /><br />61. Sugar can cause a permanent altering the way the proteins act in the body.<br /><br />62. Sugar can increase the size of the liver by making the liver cells divide.<br /><br />63. Sugar can increase the amount of liver fat.<br /><br />64. Sugar can increase kidney size and produce pathological changes in the kidney.<br /><br />65. Sugar can damage the pancreas.<br /><br />66. Sugar can increase the body's fluid retention.<br /><br />67. Sugar is enemy #1 of the bowel movement.<br /><br />68. Sugar can cause myopia (nearsightedness).<br /><br />69. Sugar can compromise the lining of the capillaries.<br /><br />70. Sugar can make the tendons more brittle.<br /><br />71. Sugar can cause headaches, including migraine.<br /><br />72. Sugar plays a role in pancreatic cancer in women.<br /><br />73. Sugar can adversely affect school children's grades and cause learning disorders..<br /><br />74. Sugar can cause an increase in delta, alpha, and theta brain waves.<br /><br />75. Sugar can cause depression.<br /><br />76. Sugar increases the risk of gastric cancer.<br /><br />77. Sugar and cause dyspepsia (indigestion).<br /><br />78. Sugar can increase your risk of getting gout.<br /><br />79. Sugar can increase the levels of glucose in an oral glucose tolerance test over the ingestion of complex carbohydrates.<br /><br />80. Sugar can increase the insulin responses in humans consuming high-sugar diets compared to low sugar diets.<br /><br />81 High refined sugar diet reduces learning capacity.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />83. Sugar can contribute to Alzheimer’s disease.<br /><br />84. Sugar can cause platelet adhesiveness.<br /><br />85. Sugar can cause hormonal imbalance; some hormones become underactive and others become overactive.<br /><br />86. Sugar can lead to the formation of kidney stones.<br /><br />87. Sugar can lead to the hypothalamus to become highly sensitive to a large variety of stimuli.<br /><br />88. Sugar can lead to dizziness.<br /><br />89. Diets high in sugar can cause free radicals and oxidative stress.<br /><br />90. High sucrose diets of subjects with peripheral vascular disease significantly increases platelet adhesion.<br /><br />91. High sugar diet can lead to biliary tract cancer.<br /><br />92. Sugar feeds cancer.<br /><br />93. High sugar consumption of pregnant adolescents is associated with a twofold increased risk for delivering a small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infant.<br /><br />94. High sugar consumption can lead to substantial decrease in gestation duration among adolescents.<br /><br />95. Sugar slows food's travel time through the gastrointestinal tract.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />97. Sugar increases estradiol (the most potent form of naturally occurring estrogen) in men.<br /><br />98. Sugar combines and destroys phosphatase, an enzyme, which makes the process of digestion more difficult.<br /><br />99. Sugar can be a risk factor of gallbladder cancer.<br /><br />100. Sugar is an addictive substance.<br /><br />101. Sugar can be intoxicating, similar to alcohol.<br /><br />102. Sugar can exacerbate PMS.<br /><br />103. Sugar given to premature babies can affect the amount of carbon dioxide they produce.<br /><br />104. Decrease in sugar intake can increase emotional stability. <br /><br />105. The body changes sugar into 2 to 5 times more fat in the bloodstream than it does starch.<br /><br />106. The rapid absorption of sugar promotes excessive food intake in obese subjects.<br /><br />107. Sugar can worsen the symptoms of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).<br /><br />108. Sugar adversely affects urinary electrolyte composition.<br /><br />109. Sugar can slow down the ability of the adrenal glands to function.<br /><br />110. Sugar has the potential of inducing abnormal metabolic processes in a normal healthy individual and to promote chronic degenerative diseases.<br /><br />111.. I.Vs (intravenous feedings) of sugar water can cut off oxygen to the brain.<br /><br />112. High sucrose intake could be an important risk factor in lung cancer.<br /><br />113. Sugar increases the risk of polio.<br /><br />114. High sugar intake can cause epileptic seizures.<br /><br />115. Sugar causes high blood pressure in obese people.<br /><br />116. In Intensive Care Units, limiting sugar saves lives.<br /><br />117. Sugar may induce cell death.<br /><br />118. Sugar can increase the amount of food that you eat.<br /><br />119. In juvenile rehabilitation camps, when children were put on a low sugar diet, there was a 44% drop in antisocial behavior.<br /><br />120. Sugar can lead to prostrate cancer.<br /><br />121. Sugar dehydrates newborns.<br /><br />122. Sugar increases the estradiol in young men.<br /><br />123. Sugar can cause low birth weight babies.<br /><br />124. Greater consumption of refined sugar is associated with a worse outcome of schizophrenia<br /><br />125. Sugar can raise homocysteine levels in the blood stream.<br /><br />126. Sweet food items increase the risk of breast cancer.<br /><br />127. Sugar is a risk factor in cancer of the small intestine.<br /><br />128. Sugar may cause laryngeal cancer.<br /><br />129. Sugar induces salt and water retention.<br /><br />130. Sugar may contribute to mild memory loss.<br /><br />131. As sugar increases in the diet of 10 years olds, there is a linear decrease in the intake of many essential nutrients.<br /><br />132. Sugar can increase the total amount of food consumed.<br /><br />133. Exposing a newborn to sugar results in a heightened preference for sucrose relative to water at 6 months and 2 years of age.<br /><br />134. Sugar causes constipation.<br /><br />135. Sugar causes varicous veins.<br /><br />136. Sugar can cause brain decay in prediabetic and diabetic women.<br /><br />137. Sugar can increase the risk of stomach cancer.<br /><br />138. Sugar can cause metabolic syndrome.<br /><br />139. Sugar ingestion by pregnant women increases neural tube defects in embryos.<br /><br />140. Sugar can be a factor in asthma.<br /><br />141. The higher the sugar consumption the more chances of getting irritable bowel syndrome.<br /><br />142. Sugar could affect central reward systems.<br /><br />143. Sugar can cause cancer of the rectum.<br /><br />144. Sugar can cause endometrial cancer.<br /><br />145. Sugar can cause renal (kidney) cell carcinoma.<br /><br />146. Sugar can cause liver tumors.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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