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124 Ways Sugar Can Ruin
Your Health
Contributed by Nancy Appleton, Ph.D.,
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
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| Sugar can cause hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty
concentrating, and crankiness in children |
| Sugar can produce a significant rise in triglycerides
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| 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
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| 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
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| Sugar can make the tendons more brittle |
| Sugar can cause headaches, including migraine
|
| Sugar plays a role in pancreatic cancer in women
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| 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
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| 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
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| Sugar is an addictive substance |
| Sugar can be intoxicating, similar to alcohol
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| 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
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| Sugar causes high blood pressure in obese people
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| 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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