- Sugar can suppress your immune system and impair your defenses against infectious disease.1,2
- Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in your body: causes chromium and copper deficiencies and interferes with absorption of calcium and magnesium. 3,4,5,6
- Sugar can cause can cause a rapid rise of adrenaline, hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and crankiness in children.7,8
- Sugar can produce a significant rise in total cholesterol, triglycerides and bad cholesterol and a decrease in good cholesterol.9,10,11,12
- Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function.13
- 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.14,15,16,17,18,19,20
- Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose and can cause reactive hypoglycemia.21,22
- Sugar can weaken eyesight.23
- 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.24,25,26,27,28
- Sugar can cause premature aging.29
- Sugar can lead to alcoholism.30
- Sugar can cause your saliva to become acidic, tooth decay, and periodontal disease.31,32,33
- Sugar contributes to obesity.34
- Sugar can cause autoimmune diseases such as: arthritis, asthma, multiple sclerosis.35,36,37
- Sugar greatly assists the uncontrolled growth of Candida Albicans (yeast infections)38
- Sugar can cause gallstones.39
- Sugar can cause appendicitis.40
- Sugar can cause hemorrhoids.41
- Sugar can cause varicose veins.42
- Sugar can elevate glucose and insulin responses in oral contraceptive users.43
- Sugar can contribute to osteoporosis.44
- Sugar can cause a decrease in your insulin sensitivity thereby causing an abnormally high insulin levels and eventually diabetes.45,46,47
- Sugar can lower your Vitamin E levels.48
- Sugar can increase your systolic blood pressure.49
- Sugar can cause drowsiness and decreased activity in children.50
- High sugar intake increases advanced glycation end products (AGEs)(Sugar molecules attaching to and thereby damaging proteins in the body).51
- Sugar can interfere with your absorption of protein.52
- Sugar causes food allergies.53
- Sugar can cause toxemia during pregnancy.54
- Sugar can contribute to eczema in children.55
- Sugar can cause atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.56,57
- Sugar can impair the structure of your DNA.58
- Sugar can change the structure of protein and cause a permanent alteration of the way the proteins act in your body.59,60
- Sugar can make your skin age by changing the structure of collagen.61
- Sugar can cause cataracts and nearsightedness.62,63
- Sugar can cause emphysema.64
- High sugar intake can impair the physiological homeostasis of many systems in your body.65
- Sugar lowers the ability of enzymes to function.66
- Sugar intake is higher in people with Parkinson's disease.67
- Sugar can increase the size of your liver by making your liver cells divide and it can increase the amount of liver fat.68,69
- Sugar can increase kidney size and produce pathological changes in the kidney such as the formation of kidney stones.70,71
- Sugar can damage your pancreas.72
- Sugar can increase your body's fluid retention.73
- Sugar is enemy #1 of your bowel movement.74
- Sugar can compromise the lining of your capillaries.75
- Sugar can make your tendons more brittle.76
- Sugar can cause headaches, including migraines.77
- Sugar can reduce the learning capacity, adversely affect school children's grades and cause learning disorders.78,79
- Sugar can cause an increase in delta, alpha, and theta brain waves which can alter your mind's ability to think clearly.80
- Sugar can cause depression.81
- Sugar can increase your risk of gout.82
- Sugar can increase your risk of Alzheimer's disease.83
- Sugar can cause hormonal imbalances such as: increasing estrogen in men, exacerbating PMS, and decreasing growth hormone.84,85,86,87
- Sugar can lead to dizziness.88
- Diets high in sugar will increase free radicals and oxidative stress.89
- High sucrose diets of subjects with peripheral vascular disease significantly increases platelet adhesion.90
- High sugar consumption of 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.91,92
- Sugar is an addictive substance.93
- Sugar can be intoxicating, similar to alcohol.94
- Sugar given to premature babies can affect the amount of carbon dioxide they produce.95
- Decrease in sugar intake can increase emotional stability.96
- Your body changes sugar into 2 to 5 times more fat in the bloodstream than it does starch.97
- The rapid absorption of sugar promotes excessive food intake in obese subjects.98
- Sugar can worsen the symptoms of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).99
- Sugar adversely affects urinary electrolyte composition.100
- Sugar can slow down the ability of your adrenal glands to function.101
- Sugar has the potential of inducing abnormal metabolic processes in a normal healthy individual and to promote chronic degenerative diseases.102
- I.V.s (intravenous feedings) of sugar water can cut off oxygen to your brain.103
- Sugar increases your risk of polio.104
- High sugar intake can cause epileptic seizures.105
- Sugar causes high blood pressure in obese people.106
- In intensive care units: Limiting sugar saves lives.107
- Sugar may induce cell death.108
- In juvenile rehabilitation camps, when children were put on a low sugar diet, there was a 44 percent drop in antisocial behavior.109
- Sugar dehydrates newborns.110
- Sugar can cause gum disease.111
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