Sugar – Ill effects to Brain and Body!
10 Ways Sugar Can Ruin Your Health
Contributed by Nancy Appleton, PhD
Author of the book Lick The Sugar Habit
In addition to throwing off the body’s homeostasis, excess sugar may result in a number of other significant consequences. The following is a listing of some of sugar’s metabolic consequences from a variety of medical journals and other scientific publications.
1. Sugar can suppress your immune system and impair your defenses against infectious disease.1,2
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
3. Sugar can cause can cause a rapid rise of adrenaline, hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and crankiness in children.7,8
4. Sugar can produce a significant rise in total cholesterol, triglycerides and bad cholesterol and a decrease in good cholesterol.9,10,11,12
5. Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function.13
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.14,15,16,17,18,19,20
7. Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose and can cause reactive hypoglycemia.21,22
8. Sugar can weaken eyesight.23
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.24,25,26,27,28
10. Sugar can cause premature aging.29
What else does Sugar do to your Body and Brain-
- Sugar can cause your saliva to become acidic, tooth decay, and periodontal disease.31,32,33
- Sugar can lead to alcoholism.30
- 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
