77 reasons to leave your sugar...
Someone sent this to me… not sure where they got it … but I thought it’s worth sharing, so here you go:
Too much sugar can lead to damaging effects to your health. I counted no less than 77 reasons why (yes, you read that right!) sugar can cause serious health risks and why you should drop using it. For your convenience, these are divided into five categories: Increased Risk of Diseases and Ill-health, Nutrient Imbalance or Deficiency, Bodily Impairments, Behavioral Modifications and The Ultimate Reason. At the end there’s a video link about sugar addiction.
Nutrient Imbalance or Deficiency
Upsets the mineral relationships in your body
Chromium deficiency
Interferes with the absorption of calcium, magnesium, and protein
Increases total cholesterol, triglycerides, and bad cholesterol levels
Decreases HDL (good cholesterol)
Lowers vitamin E levels
Body changes sugar into two to five times more fat in the bloodstream compared to starch
Behavioral Modifications
8. Addictive and intoxicating, similar to alcohol
9. Rapid rise of adrenaline, hyperactivity, and anxiety
10. Leads to difficulty in concentration, drowsiness, and crankiness in children
11. Results in decreased activity in children
12. Reduces learning capacity and can cause learning disorders that could affect schoolchildren’s grades
13. Increases risk of antisocial behaviour
14. Decrease in emotional stability
15. Depression
16. Alcoholism
Increased Risk of Diseases and Ill-health
17. Feeds cancer cells
18. Can induce cell death
19. Increases fasting levels of glucose
20. Increases systolic blood pressure
21. Significant increase in platelet adhesion
22. Leads to formation of kidney stones and gallstones
23. Rapid sugar absorption promotes excessive food intake
24. Obesity
25. Decreases insulin sensitivity, leading to high insulin levels and eventually diabetes
26. Reactive hypoglycaemia
27. Headaches, including migraines
28. Dizziness
29. Gastrointestinal tract problems
30. Food allergies
31. Promotes chronic degenerative diseases
32. Causes atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases
33. Causes cataracts and near-sightedness
34. May lead to autoimmune diseases like arthritis, asthma, and multiple sclerosis
35. Causes emphysema
36. Contributes to osteoporosis
37. Contraction of appendicitis, haemorrhoids, and varicose veins
38. Parkinson’s disease (people with said disease have high sugar intake)
39. Increases risk of gout and Alzheimer’s disease
40. Acidity in saliva, tooth decay, and periodontal diseases
41. Gum disease
42. Greatly promotes uncontrolled growth of Candida Albicans (yeast infections)
43. Toxaemia in pregnancy
44. Contributes to eczema in children
45. Worsens symptoms of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
46. Increases risk of polio
47. May lead to epileptic seizures
48. Could lead to high blood pressure in obese people
49. Increased consumption in intensive care units can induce death
Bodily Impairments
50. Has potential to induce abnormal metabolic processes in a normal healthy individual
51. Suppression of immune system, increasing risk of contracting infectious diseases
52. Loss of tissue elasticity and function
53. Weaker eyesight
54. Premature aging
55. Increases advanced glycation end products wherein sugar molecules attach to proteins and end up damaging them
56. DNA structure impairment
57. Can cut off oxygen to brain via intravenous feedings
58. Change in protein structure and causes a permanent alteration of protein acts in your body
59. Changing of collagen structure
60. Skin aging
61. Impairs physiological homeostasis of bodily systems
62. Lowers ability of enzymes to function
63. Increases liver size by making liver cells divide, increasing the amount of liver fat
64. Increase kidney size and producing pathological changes
65. Pancreatic damage
66. Increase in body’s fluid retention
67. Affects urinary electrolyte composition
68. Slows down ability of adrenal glands to function
69. Compromises lining of capillaries
70. Brittle tendons
71. Can cause an increase in delta, alpha, and theta brain waves, which can alter the mind’s ability to think clearly
72. Causes hormonal imbalances
73. Increases free radicals and oxidative stress
74. Leads to substantial decrease in gestation, with a twofold increased risk for delivering a small- for-gestational-age infant
75. Dehydration among new-borns
76. Affects carbon dioxide production when given to premature babies
The Ultimate Reason.
77. Udi says so!!!
Kick the sugar addiction: http://www.doctoroz.com/article/5-step-plan-kick-your-sugar-addiction
