Sugar Addiction - 76 ways sugar can ruin your health

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Sugar Addiction

By Appleton, Ph.D.

Can you go for more than a day without eating sugar in

any form?Do you drink soft drinks or milkshakes, eat

Danish pastry, fruit yogurt (a 6 oz. cartoon has 7

teaspoons of sugar or honey), donuts, bagels, cakes,

cookies, most bran muffins or many other sugary items.

Can you go without any other foods that contain words

ending in " ose " such as sucrose, fructose, etc., or

contain corn syrup, corn sweetener, honey, barley

malt, maple syrup, sugar cane solids, or rice syrup?

Do you pig out on a carton of ice cream or a bag of

cookies? If you find that sugar is part of your diet

every day, you may have a problem.

The average person eats 153 pounds of sugar a year.

That is equivalent to over 1/2 cup of sugar a day.

The teenage boy eats twice that much. So you say,

" Who cares? " What is wrong with sugar?

There is much scientific evidence written in many

medical journals showing that sugar can ruin your

health. Do you have any of the following symptoms?

Do you fall asleep after meals, have allergies, gas,

bloating, extended stomach after meals, joint pains,

headaches, chronic fatigue, constipation, diarrhea,

over weight, skin problems, high blood pressure or

other symptoms? These all can be signs of a sugar

problem.

We have evolved from early man having digestive

mechanisms to digest foods. RARELY did he find a

honey bee hive and get anything sweeter than an

occasional apple.

We do not have the digestive mechanisms to digest the

glut of sugar that we are eating on a daily basis.

Recently, information has emerged as to what happens

to the minerals in the body when sugar and other

abusive foods are eaten. For example, every time we

eat just as little as two teaspoons of sugar our blood

chemistry can change, and we can throw ourselves out

of homeostasis, the wonderful electrochemical balance

needed for health and life itself. Doctors and

clinicians do not usually test the total blood

chemistry of a person before and after ingesting

sugar, but if they did, they would find that the

minerals increase or decrease, and change relationship

with each other. In the usual case the calcium

increases and the phosphorus decreases (the ratio of

calcium to phosphorous increases too much) and there

is toxic calcium in the body because minerals only

work in relation to each other. A mineral can become

toxic to the body when there is an excess of that

mineral in the body. Toxic calcium can cause plaque

on the teeth, kidney stones, arthritis, cataracts,

bone spurs, and hardening of the arteries.

These are effects of an increase in a particular

mineral ratio. When minerals decrease, they can be

reduced to such an extent that our enzymes are unable

to function well as each enzyme is dependent upon a

mineral to function. As a result we do not digest our

food completely and some of this undigested food can

get directly into the blood stream and is treated as a

foreign substance. This by-product of incomplete

digestion, causes the immune system to come into

action. Actually, this is one form of food allergy.

The immune system must respond to this undigested or

partially digested food in the blood stream. For some

of us, this undigested food can cause an inflammatory

response with sneezes and wheezes. For others it

might cause headaches, anger, arthritis, fatigue,

multiple sclerosis, psoriasis or other problems. On

top of all this, too much sugar can overwork and

exhaust our white cells and weaken our immune system.

The white blood cells need protein to function, and

they are not receiving the correct protein

combinations since protein is not being digested and

assimilated properly.

The bottom line is that sugar upsets the body

chemistry and suppresses the immune system. Once the

immune system becomes suppressed, the door is opened

to infectious and degenerative diseases. The stronger

the immune system the easier it is for the body to

fight infectious and degenerative diseases.

Sugar is implicated in the following diseases and many

more: allergies, arthritis, diabetes, hypoglycemia,

osteoporosis, gallstones, kidney stones, headaches,

yeast infections, and cataracts.

So if you have any of the symptoms or diseases

mentioned, remove all forms of sugar from your diet

for two weeks, I think that you will be pleasantly

suprised. Not only will some of those symptoms

disappear but you will be strengthening your immune

system, allowing it to do the job it was meant to,

defend you against foreign invaders.

Appleton, Ph.D., did her undergraduate work at

U.C.L.A. in Food and Nutrition. She received her

Ph.D. from Walden University in Health Services. Her

award willing dissertation was written on " An

Alternative to the Germ Theory, " which will come out

in the book THE CURSE OF LOUIS PASTEUR. She is author

of HEALTHY BONES, LICK THE SUGAR HABIT THE CURSE OF

LOUIS PASTEUR, and HEAL YOURSELF WITH NATURAL FOODS.

For more information on the web: www.nancyappleton.com

76 Ways Sugar Can Ruin Your Health

Contributed by Appleton, Ph.D

Author of the book Lick The Sugar Habit

In addition to throwing off the body's chemical

balance, 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

2. Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in your

body: causes chromium and copper deficiencies and

interferes with absorption of calcium and magnesium

3. Sugar can cause can cause a rapid rise of

adrenaline, hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty

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.30

12. Sugar can cause your saliva to become acidic,

tooth decay, and periodontal disease.

13. Sugar contributes to obesity.

14. Sugar can cause autoimmune diseases such as:

arthritis, asthma, multiple sclerosis.

15. Sugar greatly assists the uncontrolled growth of

Candida Albicans (yeast infections)38

16. Sugar can cause gallstones.39

17. Sugar can cause appendicitis.40

18. Sugar can cause hemorrhoids.41

19. Sugar can cause varicose veins.42

20. Sugar can elevate glucose and insulin responses

in oral contraceptive users.43

21. Sugar can contribute to osteoporosis.44

22. Sugar can cause a decrease in your insulin

sensitivity thereby causing an abnormally high insulin

levels and eventually diabetes.45,46,47

23. Sugar can lower your Vitamin E levels.48

24. Sugar can increase your systolic blood

pressure.49

25. Sugar can cause drowsiness and decreased activity

in children.50

26. High sugar intake increases advanced glycation

end products (AGEs)(Sugar molecules attaching to and

thereby damaging proteins in the body).51

27. Sugar can interfere with your absorption of

protein.52

28. Sugar causes food allergies.53

29. Sugar can cause toxemia during pregnancy.54

30. Sugar can contribute to eczema in children.55

31. Sugar can cause atherosclerosis and

cardiovascular disease.56,57

32. Sugar can impair the structure of your DNA.58

33. Sugar can change the structure of protein and

cause a permanent alteration of the way the proteins

act in your body.59,60

34. Sugar can make your skin age by changing the

structure of collagen.61

35. Sugar can cause cataracts and

nearsightedness.62,63

36. Sugar can cause emphysema.64

37. High sugar intake can impair the physiological

homeostasis of many systems in your body.65

38. Sugar lowers the ability of enzymes to

function.66

39. Sugar intake is higher in people with Parkinson’s

disease.67

40. 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

41. Sugar can increase kidney size and produce

pathological changes in the kidney such as the

formation of kidney stones.70,71

42. Sugar can damage your pancreas.72

43. Sugar can increase your body's fluid retention.73

44. Sugar is enemy #1 of your bowel movement.74

45. Sugar can compromise the lining of your

capillaries.75

46. Sugar can make your tendons more brittle.76

47. Sugar can cause headaches, including migraines.77

48. Sugar can reduce the learning capacity, adversely

affect school children's grades and cause learning

disorders.78,79

49. Sugar can cause an increase in delta, alpha, and

theta brain waves which can alter your mind’s ability

to think clearly.80

50. Sugar can cause depression.81

51. Sugar can increase your risk of gout.82

52. Sugar can increase your risk of Alzheimer’s

disease.83

53. Sugar can cause hormonal imbalances such as:

increasing estrogen in men, exacerbating PMS, and

decreasing growth hormone.84,85,86,87

54. Sugar can lead to dizziness.88

55. Diets high in sugar will increase free radicals

and oxidative stress.89

56. High sucrose diets of subjects with peripheral

vascular disease significantly increases platelet

adhesion.90

57. 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

58. Sugar is an addictive substance.93

59. Sugar can be intoxicating, similar to alcohol.94

60. Sugar given to premature babies can affect the

amount of carbon dioxide they produce.95

61. Decrease in sugar intake can increase emotional

stability.96

62. Your body changes sugar into 2 to 5 times more

fat in the bloodstream than it does starch.97

63. The rapid absorption of sugar promotes excessive

food intake in obese subjects.98

64. Sugar can worsen the symptoms of children with

attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).99

65. Sugar adversely affects urinary electrolyte

composition.100

66. Sugar can slow down the ability of your adrenal

glands to function.101

67. Sugar has the potential of inducing abnormal

metabolic processes in a normal healthy individual and

to promote chronic degenerative diseases.102

68. I.V.s (intravenous feedings) of sugar water can

cut off oxygen to your brain.103

69. Sugar increases your risk of polio.104

70. High sugar intake can cause epileptic

seizures.105

71. Sugar causes high blood pressure in obese

people.106

72. In intensive care units: Limiting sugar saves

lives.107

73. Sugar may induce cell death.108

74. In juvenile rehabilitation camps, when children

were put on a low sugar diet, there was a 44 percent

drop in antisocial behavior.109

75. Sugar dehydrates newborns.110

76. Sugar can cause gum disease.111