Sugar is BAD. BAD. BAD.
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Sugar can suppress your immune system and impair your defenses against infectious disease.
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Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in your body: causes chromium and copper deficiencies and interferes with absorption of calcium and magnesium.
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Sugar can cause can cause a rapid rise of adrenaline, hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and crankiness in children.
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Sugar can produce a significant rise in total cholesterol, triglycerides and bad cholesterol and a decrease in good cholesterol.
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Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function.
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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.
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Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose and can cause reactive hypoglycemia.
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Sugar can weaken eyesight.
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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.
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Sugar can cause premature aging.
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Sugar can lead to alcoholism.
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Sugar can cause your saliva to become acidic, tooth decay, and periodontal disease.
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Sugar contributes to obesity.
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Sugar can cause autoimmune diseases such as: arthritis, asthma, multiple sclerosis.
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Sugar greatly assists the uncontrolled growth of Candida Albicans (yeast infections)
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Sugar can cause gallstones.
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Sugar can cause appendicitis.
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Sugar can cause hemorrhoids.
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Sugar can cause varicose veins.
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Sugar can elevate glucose and insulin responses in oral contraceptive users.
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Sugar can contribute to osteoporosis.
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Sugar can cause a decrease in your insulin sensitivity thereby causing an abnormally high insulin levels and eventually diabetes.
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Sugar can lower your Vitamin E levels.
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Sugar can increase your systolic blood pressure.
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Sugar can cause drowsiness and decreased activity in children.
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High sugar intake increases advanced glycation end products (AGEs)(Sugar molecules attaching to and thereby damaging proteins in the body).
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Sugar can interfere with your absorption of protein.
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Sugar causes food allergies.
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Sugar can cause toxemia during pregnancy.
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Sugar can contribute to eczema in children.
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Sugar can cause atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.
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Sugar can impair the structure of your DNA.
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Sugar can change the structure of protein and cause a permanent alteration of the way the proteins act in your body.
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Sugar can make your skin age by changing the structure of collagen.
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Sugar can cause cataracts and nearsightedness.
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Sugar can cause emphysema.
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High sugar intake can impair the physiological homeostasis of many systems in your body.
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Sugar lowers the ability of enzymes to function.
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Sugar intake is higher in people with Parkinson's disease.
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Sugar can increase the size of your liver by making your liver cells divide and it can increase the amount of liver fat.
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Sugar can increase kidney size and produce pathological changes in the kidney such as the formation of kidney stones.
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Sugar can damage your pancreas.
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Sugar can increase your body's fluid retention.
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Sugar is enemy #1 of your bowel movement.
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Sugar can compromise the lining of your capillaries.
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Sugar can make your tendons more brittle.
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Sugar can cause headaches, including migraines.
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Sugar can reduce the learning capacity, adversely affect school children's grades and cause learning disorders.
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Sugar can cause an increase in delta, alpha, and theta brain waves which can alter your mind's ability to think clearly.
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Sugar can cause depression.
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Sugar can increase your risk of gout.
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Sugar can increase your risk of Alzheimer's disease.
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Sugar can cause hormonal imbalances such as: increasing estrogen in men, exacerbating PMS, and decreasing growth hormone.
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Sugar can lead to dizziness.
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Diets high in sugar will increase free radicals and oxidate stress.
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High sucrose diets of subjects with peripheral vascular disease significantly increases platelet adhesion.
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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.
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Sugar is an addictive substance.
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Sugar can be intoxicating, similar to alcohol.
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Sugar given to premature babies can affect the amount of carbon dioxide they produce.
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Decrease in sugar intake can increase emotional stability.
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Your body changes sugar into 2 to 5 times more fat in the bloodstream than it does starch.
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The rapid absorption of sugar promotes excessive food intake in obese subjects.
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Sugar can worsen the symptoms of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
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Sugar adversely affects urinary electrolyte composition.
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Sugar can slow down the ability of your adrenal glands to function.
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Sugar has the potential of inducing abnormal metabolic processes in a normal healthy individual and to promote chronic degenerative diseases.
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I.V.s (intravenous feedings) of sugar water can cut off oxygen to your brain.
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Sugar increases your risk of polio.
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High sugar intake can cause epileptic seizures.
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Sugar causes high blood pressure in obese people.
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In intensive care units: Limiting sugar saves lives.
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Sugar may induce cell death.
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In juvenile rehabilitation camps, when children were put on a low sugar diet, there was a 44 percent drop in antisocial behavior.
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Sugar dehydrates newborns.
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Sugar can cause gum disease.
