124 ways sugar can ruin your health

124 Ways Sugar Can Ruin Your Health
by Nancy Appleton, Ph.D.
http://www.nancyappleton.com
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.

Sugar can suppress the immune system

Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in the body

Sugar can cause hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and
crankiness in children

Sugar can produce a significant rise in triglycerides

Sugar contributes to the reduction in defense against bacterial
infection (infectious diseases)

Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function, the more sugar
you eat the more elasticity and function you loose

Sugar reduces high density lipoproteins

Sugar leads to chromium deficiency

Sugar leads to cancer of the breast, ovaries, prostrate, and rectum

Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose

Sugar causes copper deficiency

Sugar interferes with absorption of calcium and magnesium

Sugar can weaken eyesight

Sugar raises the level of a neurotransmitters: dopamine, serotonin,
and norepinephrine

Sugar can cause hypoglycemia

Sugar can produce an acidic digestive tract

Sugar can cause a rapid rise of adrenaline levels in children

Sugar malabsorption is frequent in patients with functional bowel
disease

Sugar can cause premature aging

Sugar can lead to alcoholism

Sugar can cause tooth decay

Sugar contributes to obesity

High intake of sugar increases the risk of Crohn's disease, and
ulcerative colitis

Sugar can cause changes frequently found in person with gastric or
duodenal ulcers

Sugar can cause arthritis

Sugar can cause asthma

Sugar greatly assists the uncontrolled growth of Candida Albicans
(yeast infections)

Sugar can cause gallstones

Sugar can cause heart disease

Sugar can cause appendicitis

Sugar can cause multiple sclerosis

Sugar can cause hemorrhoids

Sugar can cause varicose veins

Sugar can elevate glucose and insulin responses in oral contraceptive
users

Sugar can lead to periodontal disease

Sugar can contribute to osteoporosis

Sugar contributes to saliva acidity

Sugar can cause a decrease in insulin sensitivity

Sugar can lower the amount of Vitamin E in the blood

Sugar can decrease growth hormone

Sugar can increase cholesterol

Sugar can increase the systolic blood pressure

Sugar can cause drowsiness and decreased activity in children

High sugar intake increases advanced glycation end products
(AGEs)(Sugar bound non- enzymatically to protein)

Sugar can interfere with the absorption of protein

Sugar causes food allergies

Sugar can contribute to diabetes

Sugar can cause toxemia during pregnancy

Sugar can contribute to eczema in children

Sugar can cause cardiovascular disease

Sugar can impair the structure of DNA

Sugar can change the structure of protein

Sugar can make our skin age by changing the structure of collagen

Sugar can cause cataracts

Sugar can cause emphysema

Sugar can cause atherosclerosis

Sugar can promote an elevation of low density lipoproteins (LDL)

High sugar intake can impair the physiological homeostasis of many
systems in the body

Sugar lowers the enzymes ability to function

Sugar intake is higher in people with Parkinson’s disease

Sugar can cause a permanent altering the way the proteins act in the
body

Sugar can increase the size of the liver by making the liver cells
divide

Sugar can increase the amount of liver fat

Sugar can increase kidney size and produce pathological changes in
the kidney

Sugar can damage the pancreas

Sugar can increase the body's fluid retention

Sugar is enemy #1 of the bowel movement

Sugar can cause myopia (nearsightedness)

Sugar can compromise the lining of the capillaries

Sugar can make the tendons more brittle

Sugar can cause headaches, including migraine

Sugar plays a role in pancreatic cancer in women

Sugar can adversely affect school children's grades and cause
learning disorders

Sugar can cause an increase in delta, alpha, and theta brain waves

Sugar can cause depression

Sugar increases the risk of gastric cancer

Sugar and cause dyspepsia (indigestion)

Sugar can increase your risk of getting gout

Sugar can increase the levels of glucose in an oral glucose tolerance
test over the ingestion of complex carbohydrates

Sugar can increase the insulin responses in humans consuming
high-sugar diets compared to low sugar diets

High refined sugar diet reduces learning capacity

Sugar can cause less effective functioning of two blood proteins,
albumin, and lipoproteins, which may reduce the body’s ability to
handle fat and cholesterol

Sugar can contribute to Alzheimer’s disease

Sugar can cause platelet adhesiveness

Sugar can cause hormonal imbalance; some hormones become underactive
and others become overactive

Sugar can lead to the formation of kidney stones

Sugar can lead to the hypothalamus to become highly sensitive to a
large variety of stimuli

Sugar can lead to dizziness

Diets high in sugar can cause free radicals and oxidative stress

High sucrose diets of subjects with peripheral vascular disease
significantly increases platelet adhesion

High sugar diet can lead to biliary tract cancer

Sugar feeds cancer

High sugar consumption of pregnant adolescents is associated with a
twofold increased risk for delivering a small-for-gestational-age
(SGA) infant

High sugar consumption can lead to substantial decrease in gestation
duration among adolescents

Sugar slows food's travel time through the gastrointestinal tract

Sugar increases the concentration of bile acids in stools and
bacterial enzymes in the colon

Sugar increases estradiol (the most potent form of naturally
occurring estrogen) in men

Sugar combines and destroys phosphatase, an enzyme, which makes the
process of digestion more dificult

Sugar can be a risk factor of gallbladder cancer

Sugar is an addictive substance

Sugar can be intoxicating, similar to alcohol

Sugar can exacerbate PMS

Sugar given to premature babies can affect the amount of carbon
dioxide they produce

Decrease in sugar intake can increase emotional stability

The body changes sugar into 2 to 5 times more fat in the bloodstream
than it does starch

The rapid absorption of sugar promotes excessive food intake in obese
subjects

Sugar can worsen the symptoms of children with attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

Sugar adversely affects urinary electrolyte composition

Sugar can slow down the ability of the adrenal glands to function

Sugar has the potential of inducing abnormal metabolic processes in a
normal healthy individual and to promote chronic degenerative
diseases

I.Vs (intravenous feedings) of sugar water can cut off oxygen to the
brain

High sucrose intake could be an important risk factor in lung cancer

Sugar increases the risk of polio

High sugar intake can cause epileptic seizures

Sugar causes high blood pressure in obese people

In Intensive Care Units: Limiting sugar saves lives

Sugar may induce cell death

Sugar may impair the physiological homeostasis of many systems in
living organisms

In juvenile rehabilitation camps, when children were put on a low
sugar diet, there was a 44% drop in antisocial behavior

Sugar can cause gastric cancer

Sugar dehydrates newborns

Sugar can cause gum disease

Sugar increases the estradiol in young men

Sugar can cause low birth weight babies

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