124 Ways Sugar Can Ruin Your Health
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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. 1. Sugar can suppress the immune system 2. Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in the body 3. Sugar can cause hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and crankiness in children 4. Sugar can produce a significant rise in triglycerides 5. Sugar contributes to the reduction in defense against bacterial infection (infectious diseases) 6. Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function, the more sugar you eat the more elasticity and function you loose 7. Sugar reduces high density lipoproteins 8. Sugar leads to chromium deficiency 9. Sugar leads to cancer of the breast, ovaries, prostrate, and rectum 10. Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose 11. Sugar causes copper deficiency 12. Sugar interferes with absorption of calcium and magnesium 13. Sugar can weaken eyesight 14. Sugar raises the level of a neurotransmitters: dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine 15. Sugar can cause hypoglycemia 16. Sugar can produce an acidic digestive tract 17. Sugar can cause a rapid rise of adrenaline levels in children 18. Sugar malabsorption is frequent in patients with functional bowel disease 19. Sugar can cause premature aging 20. Sugar can lead to alcoholism 21. Sugar can cause tooth decay 22. Sugar contributes to obesity 23. High intake of sugar increases the risk of Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis 24. Sugar can cause changes frequently found in person with gastric or duodenal ulcers 25. Sugar can cause arthritis 26. Sugar can cause asthma 27. Sugar greatly assists the uncontrolled growth of Candida Albicans (yeast infections) 28. Sugar can cause gallstones 29. Sugar can cause heart disease 30. Sugar can cause appendicitis 31. Sugar can cause multiple sclerosis 32. Sugar can cause hemorrhoids 33. Sugar can cause varicose veins 34. Sugar can elevate glucose and insulin responses in oral contraceptive users 35. Sugar can lead to periodontal disease 36. Sugar can contribute to osteoporosis 37. Sugar contributes to saliva acidity 38. Sugar can cause a decrease in insulin sensitivity 39. Sugar can lower the amount of Vitamin E in the blood 40. Sugar can decrease growth hormone 41. Sugar can increase cholesterol 42. Sugar can increase the systolic blood pressure 43. Sugar can cause drowsiness and decreased activity in children 44. High sugar intake increases advanced glycation end products (AGEs)(Sugar bound non- enzymatically to protein) 45. Sugar can interfere with the absorption of protein 46. Sugar causes food allergies 47. Sugar can contribute to diabetes 48. Sugar can cause toxemia during pregnancy 49. Sugar can contribute to eczema in children 50. Sugar can cause cardiovascular disease 51. Sugar can impair the structure of DNA 52. Sugar can change the structure of protein 53. Sugar can make our skin age by changing the structure of collagen 54. Sugar can cause cataracts 55. Sugar can cause emphysema 56. Sugar can cause atherosclerosis 57. Sugar can promote an elevation of low density lipoproteins (LDL) 58. High sugar intake can impair the physiological homeostasis of many systems in the body 59. Sugar lowers the enzymes ability to function 60. Sugar intake is higher in people with Parkinson’s disease 61. Sugar can cause a permanent altering the way the proteins act in the body 62. Sugar can increase the size of the liver by making the liver cells divide 63. Sugar can increase the amount of liver fat 64. Sugar can increase kidney size and produce pathological changes in the kidney 65. Sugar can damage the pancreas 66. Sugar can increase the body's fluid retention 67. Sugar is enemy #1 of the bowel movement 68. Sugar can cause myopia (nearsightedness) 69. Sugar can compromise the lining of the capillaries 70. Sugar can make the tendons more brittle 71. Sugar can cause headaches, including migraine 72. Sugar plays a role in pancreatic cancer in women 73. Sugar can adversely affect school children's grades and cause learning disorders 74. Sugar can cause an increase in delta, alpha, and theta brain waves 75. Sugar can cause depression 76. Sugar increases the risk of gastric cancer 77. Sugar and cause dyspepsia (indigestion) 78. Sugar can increase your risk of getting gout 79. Sugar can increase the levels of glucose in an oral glucose tolerance test over the ingestion of complex carbohydrates 80. Sugar can increase the insulin responses in humans consuming high-sugar diets compared to low sugar diets 81. High refined sugar diet reduces learning capacity 82. 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 83. Sugar can contribute to Alzheimer’s disease 84. Sugar can cause platelet adhesiveness 85. Sugar can cause hormonal imbalance; some hormones become underactive and others become overactive 86. Sugar can lead to the formation of kidney stones 87. Sugar can lead to the hypothalamus to become highly sensitive to a large variety of stimuli 88. Sugar can lead to dizziness 89. Diets high in sugar can cause free radicals and oxidative stress 90. High sucrose diets of subjects with peripheral vascular disease significantly increases platelet adhesion 91. High sugar diet can lead to biliary tract cancer 92. Sugar feeds cancer 93. High sugar consumption of pregnant adolescents is associated with a twofold increased risk for delivering a small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infant 94. High sugar consumption can lead to substantial decrease in gestation duration among adolescents 95. Sugar slows food's travel time through the gastrointestinal tract 96. Sugar increases the concentration of bile acids in stools and bacterial enzymes in the colon 97. Sugar increases estradiol (the most potent form of naturally occurring estrogen) in men 98. Sugar combines and destroys phosphatase, an enzyme, which makes the process of digestion more dificult 99. Sugar can be a risk factor of gallbladder cancer 100. Sugar is an addictive substance 101. Sugar can be intoxicating, similar to alcohol 102. Sugar can exacerbate PMS 103. Sugar given to premature babies can affect the amount of carbon dioxide they produce 104. Decrease in sugar intake can increase emotional stability 105. The body changes sugar into 2 to 5 times more fat in the bloodstream than it does starch 106. The rapid absorption of sugar promotes excessive food intake in obese subjects 107. Sugar can worsen the symptoms of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) 108. Sugar adversely affects urinary electrolyte composition 109. Sugar can slow down the ability of the adrenal glands to function 110. Sugar has the potential of inducing abnormal metabolic processes in a normal healthy individual and to promote chronic degenerative diseases 111. I.Vs (intravenous feedings) of sugar water can cut off oxygen to the brain 112. High sucrose intake could be an important risk factor in lung cancer 113. Sugar increases the risk of polio 114. High sugar intake can cause epileptic seizures 115. Sugar causes high blood pressure in obese people 116. In Intensive Care Units: Limiting sugar saves lives 117. Sugar may induce cell death 118. Sugar may impair the physiological homeostasis of many systems in living organisms 119. In juvenile rehabilitation camps, when children were put on a low sugar diet, there was a 44% drop in antisocial behavior 120. Sugar can cause gastric cancer 121. Sugar dehydrates newborns 122. Sugar can cause gum disease 123. Sugar increases the estradiol in young men 124. Sugar can cause low birth weight babies References 1. Sanchez, A., et al. Role of Sugars in Human Neutrophilic Phagocytosis, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Nov 1973;261:1180_1184. Bernstein, J., al. Depression of Lymphocyte Transformation Following Oral Glucose Ingestion. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.1997;30:613. 2. Couzy, F., et al."Nutritional Implications of the Interaction Minerals," Progressive Food and Nutrition Science 17;1933:65-87. 3. Goldman, J., et al. Behavioral Effects of Sucrose on Preschool Children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.1986;14(4):565_577. 4. Scanto, S. and Yudkin, J. The Effect of Dietary Sucrose on Blood Lipids, Serum Insulin, Platelet Adhesiveness and Body Weight in Human Volunteers, Postgraduate Medicine Journal. 1969;45:602_607. 5. Ringsdorf, W., Cheraskin, E. and Ramsay R. 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My grandfather, born in the later 1800's, and who died at around aged 96 or thereabouts, ate heaps of white sugar all his life. At the same time, almost everything else he consumed was home grown and unprocessed.
There is a danger of singling out one thing and then trotting out all the correlations it has been shown to have with various bad events. The implication is that if we just stop consuming all sugar, these evils will go away. This kind of simplistic thinking is a minefield. In a world that also contains lots of prescribed medications, plastics exposed to the sun (e.g. car dashboards), X rays, microwave exposure, foods that have been raised with pesticides and hormones, etc etc etc...to just narrow it down to sugar as the principal demon is stupid. There is rarely ONE cause for anything that happens. Many people live to ripe old ages happily consuming cakes and candies in moderation. We here choose to not consume these things because we have insulin and weight issues. Some people can't eat gluten either, or foods that trigger gout... I am not trying to advocate for sugar...far from it..I am saying lets not go off the deep end looking for the ONE cause. We humans should, for the most part, be able to eat small amounts of sugar. Bears, also omnivores like us, manage to eat the occasional feast of honey and berries, harvested with a fair amount of effort, and live out their bear lives without all the threats suggested in this article. It is our tendency to eat profligately of these over-available treats that brings problems. Val |
Val,
I certainly agree with you that fixing one cause is not a total solution, but I found the list very interesing in that all the problems were documented. I have seen similar lists that list what problems low-carb diets cause, but they never have references to any studies. |
I agree it was interesting, and it is indeed preferable to provide citations..but just because something is referenced does not mean the study referenced was a good one. I can think of many studies, including one that was dissected here recently, that was pro-hi carb, are very poorly done. So equally it is possible that a lot of the links provided anti-sugar were poorly done.
My comment was really not about this though, but about the tendency to isolate, or reduce, issues to one main baddy when they are likely multi-factorial. So it is not 'just sugar', or 'just low fat', or just one anything that caused all our obesity. It is also lack of exercise overall, huge portions, mixing fats and carbs, transfats, processing, and so on. Then we have all the other potential evils mentioned in my previous post such as plastics in their infinite variety which can also be linked to bad health outcomes.. Just making a point. We are quite happy to tear apart the citations and evidence given against what we embrace, say sucralose, but not against sugar. I don't believe that either of them, unless one has a considerable and obvious problem with them, if consumed very moderately as millions do, is going to be a big problem. The same is true for say alcohol...if consumed very moderately it is not a problem. One could just as easily create a similar, well documented list of the evils of demon drink. The WHO has been saying for some years that refined sugar is a big problem but in our globalized world, economic forces larger than WHO lobby our governments. Same is true for the massive pharmaceutical industry who totally orchestrate how we think about disease...the case against sat fats being an example. But that's another discussion... So just as I choose not to drink more than 2 glasses of wine, so I choose to rarely, if ever consume refined sugar. I avoided sugar, honey etc. for probably 20 years, but still got fat. My grandfather ate heaps of it and was always slim. Val |
Well, it just puts me in mind of the Gloria Swanson interview, where she referred to it as "White Death!"
Which is how we refer to it in our household.:) |
Wow...
Quite a lot of info to support the list. I copied and pasted so I can look into some things that my apply to me or my family. I appreciate you posting this, although it was almost a year ago. I haven't read the whole list, and I never heard the term "White Death". I do however feel strongly about sugar and I figure if my body went through so much getting it out of my system, such as the headaches etc while doing induction, it should never have been there in the first place. Recently---- a few weeks ago, I don't know exactly why, but it was during vacation I started drinking Mocha's everyday. Up tho that point I had been feeling quite well, not perfect, after all I still weighed 260... I was running around Disney land and Universal studios and such... I got into the Mocha's--- and within a day or so of being home I started feeling sluggish again, first time since about a week into induction last December. I also started having muscle spasms, again something that had subsided for 9 months. I know in my heart and soul that sugar triggered these for me. Maybe some people can tolerate sugar--- or wheat for that matter... and some of us can't. It's definitely something to look into and you gave us some great places---124 of them to start that looking. |
I believe you exchange high insulin level for sugar in all those points.
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Thanks for sharing the list. It is very interesting. |
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I agree, this article refers just to sugar, but if you look at it as refined carbs, which are particularly good at raising insulin levels and causing insulin resistance, you might be able to see how Val's grandfather, who ate sugar balanced with unprocessed foods (as Val said), lived slimly to 96, while Val avoided sweets (and I presume consumed lots of refined carbs) and gained weight. [Val, please correct me if I'm wrong.] |
It's not just white sugar, it's all the refined, over processed foods that we eat in this day in age. I first heard the term White Death being used for sugar, in a book Sugar Blues, written in 1976.
The author talks about how all foods grow with the correct amount of fiber to balance the carbs naturally present in the food. We have processed so many of these foods that they are no longer in balance. Add to this all the chemicals we put in food to preserve them and bingo, you've got a recipe for future health problems. |
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