Did you know 74 ways by which sugar can ruin your health?
By Unknown Author - Jul 15, 2009
1. Sugar can suppress your immune system and impair your defences against infectious disease. 2. Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in your body: it causes chromium and copper deficiencies and interferes with absorption of calcium and magnesium. 3. Sugar can cause a rapid rise of adrenaline, hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty in concentrating, and crankiness in children. 4. Sugar can produce a significant rise in total cholesterol, triglycerides and bad cholesterol and a decrease in good cholesterol. 5. Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function. 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. 7. Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose and can cause reactive hypoglycemia. 8. Sugar can weaken eyesight. 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. 10. Sugar can cause premature aging. 11. Sugar can lead to alcoholism. 12. Sugar can cause your saliva to become acidic; it leads to tooth decay and periodontal disease. 13. Sugar contributes to obesity. 14. Sugar can cause auto-immune diseases such as arthritis, asthma, multiple sclerosis. 15. Sugar greatly assists the uncontrolled growth of Candida albicans (yeast infections). 16. Sugar can cause gallstones. 17. Sugar can cause appendicitis. 18. Sugar can cause hemorrhoids. 19. Sugar can cause varicose veins. 20. Sugar can elevate glucose and insulin responses in oral contraceptive users. 21. Sugar can contribute to osteoporosis. 22. Sugar can cause a decrease in your insulin sensitivity thereby causing an abnormally high insulin