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Death by sugar may not be an

overstatement—evidence is mounting that sugar is THE MAJOR FACTOR causing

obesity and chronic disease.

 

 

 

 

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Is sugar a sweet old friend

that is secretly plotting your demise?

There is a vast sea of research

suggesting that it is. Science has now shown us, beyond any shadow of a doubt,

that sugar in your food, in all its myriad of forms, is taking a devastating

toll on your health.

The single largest source of

calories for Americans comes from sugar—specifically high fructose corn

syrup. Just take a look at the sugar consumption trends of the past 300 years:[1]

·

In 1700, the average person consumed about 4 pounds

of sugar per year.

·

In 1800, the average person consumed about 18 pounds

of sugar per year.

·

In 1900, individual consumption had risen to 90

pounds of sugar per year.

·

In 2009, more than 50 percent of all Americans

consume one-half pound of sugar PER DAY—translating to a whopping 180

pounds of sugar per year!

Sugar is loaded into your soft

drinks, fruit juices, sports drinks, and hidden in almost all processed

foods—from bologna to pretzels to Worcestershire sauce to cheese spread.

And now most infant formula has the sugar equivalent of one can of Coca-Cola,

so babies are being metabolically poisoned from day one if taking formula.

No wonder there is an obesity epidemic in this country.

Today, 32 percent of Americans are

obese and an additional one-third are overweight. Compare that to 1890, when a

survey of white males in their fifties revealed an obesity rate of just 3.4

percent. In 1975, the obesity rate in America had reached 15 percent, and

since then it has doubled.

Carrying excess weight increases

your risk for deadly conditions such as heart disease, kidney disease and

diabetes.

In 1893, there were fewer than three

cases of diabetes per 100,000 people in the United States. Today, diabetes

strikes almost 8,000 out of every 100,000 people.[1]

You don’t have to be a

physician or a scientist to notice America’s expanding

waistline. All you have to do is stroll through a shopping mall or a

schoolyard, or perhaps glance in the mirror.

Sugars 101 -- Basics of How

to Avoid Confusion on this Important Topic

 

It is easy to become confused by the

various sugars and sweeteners. So here is a basic overview:

·

Dextrose, fructose and glucose are all monosaccharides,

known as simple sugars. The primary difference between them is how your body

metabolizes them. Glucose and dextrose are essentially the same sugar. However,

food manufacturers usually use the term “dextrose” in their

ingredient list.

·

The simple sugars can combine to form more complex

sugars, like the disaccharide

sucrose (table sugar), which is half glucose and half fructose.

·

High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is 55 percent

fructose and 45 percent glucose.

·

Ethanol (drinking alcohol) is not a sugar, although

beer and wine contain residual sugars and starches, in addition to alcohol.

·

Sugar alcohols like xylitol, glycerol,

sorbitol, maltitol, mannitol, and erythritol are neither sugars nor alcohols

but are becoming increasingly popular as sweeteners. They are incompletely

absorbed from your small intestine, for the most part, so they provide

fewer calories than sugar but often cause problems with bloating, diarrhea and

flatulence.

·

Sucralose (Splenda) is NOT a sugar,

despite its sugar-like name and deceptive marketing slogan, “made from

sugar.” It’s a chlorinated artificial sweetener in line with aspartame and saccharin, with

detrimental health effects to match.

·

Agave syrup, falsely advertised as

“natural,” is typically HIGHLY processed and is usually 80 percent fructose.

The end product does not even remotely resemble the original agave plant.

·

Honey is about 53 percent

fructose[2], but is completely natural

in its raw form and has many health benefits when used in moderation, including

as many antioxidants as spinach.

·

Stevia is a highly sweet herb

derived from the leaf of the South American stevia plant, which is completely

safe (in its natural form). Lo han (or luohanguo) is another natural sweetener,

but derived from a fruit.

All Sugars are Not Equal

Glucose is the form of energy you

were designed to run on. Every cell in your body, every bacterium—and in

fact, every living thing on the Earth—uses glucose for energy.

But as a country, sucrose is no

longer the sugar of choice. It’s now fructose.

If your diet was like that of people

a century ago, you’d consume about 15 grams per day—a far cry from

the 73 grams per day the typical person gets from sweetened drinks. In

vegetables and fruits, it’s mixed in with vitamins, minerals, enzymes,

and beneficial phytonutrients, all which moderate the negative metabolic

effects. Amazingly, 25 percent of people actually consume more than 130 grams

of fructose per day.

Making matters worse, all of the

fiber has been removed from processed foods, so there is essentially no

nutritive value at all. And the very products most people rely on to lose

weight—the low-fat diet foods—are often the ones

highest in fructose.

It isn’t that fructose itself

is bad—it is the MASSIVE DOSES you’re exposed to that make it

dangerous.

There are two overall reasons

fructose is so damaging:

1.

Your body metabolizes fructose in a

much different way than glucose. The entire burden of metabolizing fructose

falls on your liver.

2.

People are consuming fructose in enormous quantities,

which has made the negative effects much more profound.

The explosion of soda consumption is

the major cause of this.

Today, 55 percent of sweeteners used

in food and beverage manufacturing are made from corn, and the number one source of

calories in America is soda, in the form of high fructose corn syrup.

Food and beverage manufacturers

began switching their sweeteners from sucrose to corn syrup in the 1970s when

they discovered that HFCS was not only far cheaper to make, it’s about 20

percent sweeter than conventional table sugar that has sucrose.

HFCS contains the same two sugars as

sucrose but is more metabolically risky to you, due to its chemical form.

The fructose and the glucose are not bound together

in HFCS, as they are in table sugar, so your body doesn’t have to break

it down. Therefore, the fructose is absorbed immediately, going straight to

your liver.

Too Much Fructose Creates a

Metabolic Disaster in Your Body

Dr. Robert Lustig, Professor of

Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology at the University

of California, San Francisco, has been a pioneer in decoding

sugar metabolism. His work has highlighted some major differences in how

different sugars are broken down and used by the human body.

I highly recommend watching Lustig’s lecture in its entirety if you want to learn how

fructose is ruining your health biochemically.

As I mentioned earlier, after eating

fructose, most of the metabolic burden rests on your liver. This is NOT the

case with glucose, of which your liver breaks down only 20 percent. Nearly

every cell in your body utilizes glucose, so it’s normally “burned

up” immediately after consumption.

So where does all of this fructose

go, once you consume it?

Onto your thighs. It is turned into

FAT (VLDL and triglycerides), which means more fat deposits throughout your

body.

Eating Fructose is Far Worse

than Eating Fat

However, the physiological problems

of fructose metabolism extend well beyond a couple of pant sizes:

·

Fructose elevates uric acid, which decreases nitric

oxide, raises angiotensin, and causes your smooth muscle cells to contract,

thereby raising your blood pressure and potentially damaging your kidneys.[1]

 

Increased uric acid also leads to chronic, low-level inflammation, which has far-reaching

consequences for your health. For example, chronically inflamed blood vessels

lead to heart attacks and strokes; also, a good deal of evidence exists that

some cancers are caused by chronic inflammation. (See the next section for more

about uric acid.)

·

Fructose tricks your body into gaining weight by

fooling your metabolism—it turns off your body’s appetite-control

system. Fructose does not appropriately stimulate insulin, which in turn does

not suppress ghrelin (the “hunger hormone”) and doesn’t

stimulate leptin (the “satiety hormone”), which together result

in your eating more and developing insulin resistance.[3] [4]

·

Fructose rapidly leads to weight gain and abdominal

obesity (“beer belly”), decreased HDL, increased LDL, elevated

triglycerides, elevated blood sugar, and high blood pressure—i.e.,

classic metabolic syndrome.

·

Fructose metabolism is very similar to ethanol

metabolism, which has a multitude of toxic effects, including NAFLD

(non-alcoholic fatty liver disease). It’s alcohol without the buzz.

These changes are not seen when

humans or animals eat starch (or glucose), suggesting that fructose is a

“bad carbohydrate” when consumed in excess of 25 grams per day. It

is probably the one factor responsible for the partial success of many

“low-carb” diets.

One of the more recent findings that

surprised researchers is that glucose actually accelerates fructose absorption,

making the potential health risks from HFCS even more profound.[1]

You can now see why fructose is the

number one contributing factor to the current obesity epidemic.

Is Uric Acid the New

Cholesterol?

By now you are probably aware of the

childhood obesity epidemic in America—but

did you know about childhood hypertension?

Until recently, children were rarely

diagnosed with high blood pressure, and when they were, it was usually due to a

tumor or a vascular kidney disease.

In 2004, a study showed hypertension

among children is four

times higher than predicted: 4.5 percent of American

children have high blood pressure. Among overweight children, the rate is 10

percent. It is thought that obesity is to blame for about 50 percent of

hypertension cases in adolescents today.[1]

Even more startling is that 90

percent of adolescents who have high blood pressure have elevated uric acid

levels.

This has led researchers to ask,

what does uric acid have to do with obesity and high blood pressure?

In his groundbreaking book, The

Sugar Fix: The High-Fructose Fallout That is Making You Fat and Sick,

Dr. Robert

J. Johnson makes a compelling argument for a previously unrecognized connection

between excess sugar consumption and high uric acid levels.

There are more than 3,500 articles

to date showing a strong relationship between uric acid and obesity, heart

disease, hypertension, stroke, kidney disease, and other conditions. In fact, a

number of studies have confirmed that people with elevated serum uric acid are

at risk for high blood pressure, even if they otherwise appear to be perfectly

healthy.

Uric acid levels among Americans

have risen significantly since the early half of the 20th Century.

In the 1920s, average uric acid levels were about 3.5 ml/dl. By 1980, average

uric acid levels had climbed into the range of 6.0 to 6.5 ml/dl and are

probably much higher now.

How Does Your Body Produce

Uric Acid?

It’s a byproduct of cellular

breakdown. As cells die off, DNA and RNA degrade into chemicals called purines.

Purines are further broken down into uric acid.

Fructose increases uric acid through

a complex process that causes cells to burn up their ATP rapidly, leading to

“cell shock” and increased cell death. After eating excessive

amounts of fructose, cells become starved of energy and enter a state of shock,

just as if they have lost their blood supply. Massive cellular die-off leads to

increased uric acid levels.

And cells that are depleted of

energy become inflamed and more susceptible to damage from oxidative stress.

Fat cells actually become “sickly,” bloating up with excessive

amounts of fat.

There is a simple, inexpensive blood

test for determining your uric acid level, which I recommend you have done as

part of your routine health checkups. Your level should be between 3.0 and 5.5

mg/dl, optimally.

There is little doubt in my mind

that your uric acid level is a more potent predictor of cardiovascular and

overall health than your total cholesterol level is. Yet virtually no one

is screening for this.

Now that you know the truth you

don’t have to be left out in the cold, as this is a simple and relatively

inexpensive test that you can get at any doctor’s office. Odds are very

good your doctor is clueless about the significance of elevated uric acid levels,

so it will not likely be productive to engage in a discussion with him unless

he is truly an open-minded truth seeker.

Merely get your uric acid level, and

if it is over 5 then eliminate as much fructose as you can (also eliminate all

beer), and retest your level in a few weeks.

Sugar Sensitization Makes

the Problem Even WORSE!

There is yet another problem with

sugar—a self-perpetuating one.

According to Dr. Johnson1,

sugar activates its own pathways in your body—those metabolic pathways

become “upregulated.” In other words, the more sugar you eat, the

more effective your body is in absorbing it; and the more you absorb, the more

damage you’ll do.

You become “sensitized”

to sugar as time goes by, and more sensitive to its toxic effects as well.

The flip side is, when people are

given even a brief sugar holiday, sugar sensitization rapidly decreases and

those metabolic pathways become “downregulated.” Research tells us

that even two weeks without consuming sugar will cause your body to be less

reactive to it.

Try it for yourself! Take a two-week

sugar sabbatical and see how different you feel.

Are Fruits Good or Bad for

You?

Keep in mind that fruits also

contain fructose, although an ameliorating factor is that whole fruits also

contain vitamins and other antioxidants that reduce the hazardous effects of

fructose.

Juices, on the other hand, are

nearly as detrimental as soda, because a glass of juice is loaded with

fructose, and a lot of the antioxidants are lost.

It is important to remember that

fructose alone isn’t evil as fruits are certainly beneficial. But when

you consume high levels of fructose it will absolutely devastate your

biochemistry and physiology. Remember the AVERAGE fructose dose is 70 grams per

day which exceeds the recommend limit by 300 percent.

So please BE CAREFUL with your fruit

consumption. You simply MUST understand that because HFCS is so darn cheap, it

is added to virtually every processed food. Even if you consumed no soda or

fruit, it is very easy to exceed 25 grams of hidden fructose in your diet.

If you are a raw food advocate, have

a pristine diet, and exercise very well, then you could be the exception that

could exceed this limit and stay healthy.

 

Dr. Johnson has a handy chart, included below, which you can use to estimate how

much fructose you’re getting in your diet. Remember, you are also likely

getting additional fructose if you consume any packaged foods at all, since it

is hidden in nearly all of them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fruit

 

 

Serving Size

 

 

Grams of Fructose

 

 

 

 

Limes

 

 

1 medium

 

 

0

 

 

 

 

Lemons

 

 

1 medium

 

 

0.6

 

 

 

 

Cranberries

 

 

1 cup

 

 

0.7

 

 

 

 

Passion fruit

 

 

1 medium

 

 

0.9

 

 

 

 

Prune

 

 

1 medium

 

 

1.2

 

 

 

 

Apricot

 

 

1 medium

 

 

1.3

 

 

 

 

Guava

 

 

2 medium

 

 

2.2

 

 

 

 

Date (Deglet

Noor style)

 

 

1 medium

 

 

2.6

 

 

 

 

Cantaloupe

 

 

1/8 of med.

melon

 

 

2.8

 

 

 

 

Raspberries

 

 

1 cup

 

 

3.0

 

 

 

 

Clementine

 

 

1 medium

 

 

3.4

 

 

 

 

Kiwifruit

 

 

1 medium

 

 

3.4

 

 

 

 

Blackberries

 

 

1 cup

 

 

3.5

 

 

 

 

Star fruit

 

 

1 medium

 

 

3.6

 

 

 

 

Cherries, sweet

 

 

10

 

 

3.8

 

 

 

 

Strawberries

 

 

1 cup

 

 

3.8

 

 

 

 

Cherries, sour

 

 

1 cup

 

 

4.0

 

 

 

 

Pineapple

 

 

1 slice

(3.5 " x .75 " )

 

 

4.0

 

 

 

 

Grapefruit,

pink or red

 

 

1/2 medium

 

 

4.3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fruit

 

 

Serving Size

 

 

Grams of Fructose

 

 

 

 

Boysenberries

 

 

1 cup

 

 

4.6

 

 

 

 

Tangerine/mandarin

orange

 

 

1 medium

 

 

4.8

 

 

 

 

Nectarine

 

 

1 medium

 

 

5.4

 

 

 

 

Peach

 

 

1 medium

 

 

5.9

 

 

 

 

Orange (navel)

 

 

1 medium

 

 

6.1

 

 

 

 

Papaya

 

 

1/2 medium

 

 

6.3

 

 

 

 

Honeydew

 

 

1/8 of med.

melon

 

 

6.7

 

 

 

 

Banana

 

 

1 medium

 

 

7.1

 

 

 

 

Blueberries

 

 

1 cup

 

 

7.4

 

 

 

 

Date (Medjool)

 

 

1 medium

 

 

7.7

 

 

 

 

Apple

(composite)

 

 

1 medium

 

 

9.5

 

 

 

 

Persimmon

 

 

1 medium

 

 

10.6

 

 

 

 

Watermelon

 

 

1/16 med. melon

 

 

11.3

 

 

 

 

Pear

 

 

1 medium

 

 

11.8

 

 

 

 

Raisins

 

 

1/4 cup

 

 

12.3

 

 

 

 

Grapes,

seedless (green or red)

 

 

1 cup

 

 

12.4

 

 

 

 

Mango

 

 

1/2 medium

 

 

16.2

 

 

 

 

Apricots, dried

 

 

1 cup

 

 

16.4

 

 

 

 

Figs, dried

 

 

1 cup

 

 

23.0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In addition to limiting your intake

of fructose, you should eliminate all sweetened beverages and fruit juices

(including all artificial

sweeteners) and drink only pure water and raw milk.

You can buy pure

glucose (dextrose) as a sweetener for about $1 a pound. It is only 70% as

sweet as sucrose, so you’ll end up using a bit more of it for the same

amount of sweetness, making it slightly more expensive than sucrose—but

still well worth it for your health as it has ZERO grams of fructose.

Remember that glucose can be used

directly by every cell in your body and as such is far safer than the metabolic

poison fructose.

Beer is also a good beverage to

AVOID since it increases uric acid levels, just like fructose does, resulting

in many of the same toxic effects.

All alcoholic beverages cause you to

produce excess uric acid (and block your kidneys from excreting it), but beer

seems to have a more pronounced effect on uric acid levels because it’s a

rich source of guanosine, the type of purine that is most readily absorbed by

the body.1

76 Additional Ways Sugar Can

Ruin Your Health

In addition to throwing

off your body's homeostasis and wreaking havoc on your metabolic

processes, excess sugar has a number of other significant consequences.

Nancy Appleton, PhD, author of the

book Lick the Sugar

Habit[5], contributed

an extensive list of the many ways sugar can ruin your health from a vast

number of medical journals and other scientific publications.

1.

Sugar can suppress your immune system and impair your

defenses against infectious disease.[6]

[7]

 

2.

Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in your body:

causes chromium and copper deficiencies and interferes with absorption of

calcium and magnesium.[8]

[9]

[10]

[11]

 

3.

Sugar can cause a rapid rise of adrenaline,

hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and crankiness in children.[12]

[13]

 

4.

Sugar can produce a significant rise in total

cholesterol, triglycerides and bad cholesterol and a decrease in good

cholesterol.[14]

[15]

[16]

[17]

 

5.

Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and

function.[18]

 

6.

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.[19]

[20]

[21]

[22]

[23]

[24]

[25]

 

7.

Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose and can

cause reactive hypoglycemia.[26]

[27]

 

8.

Sugar can weaken eyesight.[28]

1

9.

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.[29]

[30]

[31]

[32]

[33]

 

10.

Sugar can cause premature aging.[34]

In fact, the single most important factor that accelerates aging is insulin,

which is triggered by sugar. 1

11.

Sugar can lead to alcoholism.[35]

 

12.

Sugar can cause your saliva to become acidic, tooth

decay, and periodontal disease.[36]

[37]

[38]

 

13.

Sugar contributes to obesity. [39]

1

14.

Sugar can cause autoimmune diseases such as:

arthritis, asthma, and multiple sclerosis.[40]

[41]

[42]

 

15.

Sugar greatly assists the uncontrolled growth of

Candida Albicans (yeast infections) [43]

 

16.

Sugar can cause gallstones.[44]

 

17.

Sugar can cause appendicitis.[45]

 

18.

Sugar can cause hemorrhoids.[46]

 

19.

Sugar can cause varicose veins.[47]

 

20.

Sugar can elevate glucose and insulin responses in

oral contraceptive users.[48]

 

21.

Sugar can contribute to osteoporosis.[49]

 

22.

Sugar can cause a decrease in your insulin

sensitivity thereby causing an abnormally high insulin levels and eventually

diabetes.[50]

[51]

[52]

 

23.

Sugar can lower your Vitamin E levels.[53]

 

24.

Sugar can increase your systolic blood pressure.[54]

 

25.

Sugar can cause drowsiness and decreased activity in

children.[55]

 

26.

High sugar intake increases advanced glycation end

products (AGEs),which are sugar molecules that attach to and damage proteins in

your body. AGEs speed up the aging of cells, which may contribute to a variety

of chronic and fatal diseases. [56]

1

27.

Sugar can interfere with your absorption of protein.[57]

 

28.

Sugar causes food allergies.[58]

 

29.

Sugar can cause toxemia during pregnancy.[59]

 

30.

Sugar can contribute to eczema in children.[60]

 

31.

Sugar can cause atherosclerosis and cardiovascular

disease.[61]

[62]

 

32.

Sugar can impair the structure of your DNA.[63]

 

33.

Sugar can change the structure of protein and cause a

permanent alteration of the way the proteins act in your body.[64]

[65]

 

34.

Sugar can make your skin age by changing the

structure of collagen.[66]

 

35.

Sugar can cause cataracts and nearsightedness.[67]

[68]

 

36.

Sugar can cause emphysema.[69]

 

37.

High sugar intake can impair the physiological

homeostasis of many systems in your body.[70]

 

38.

Sugar lowers the ability of enzymes to function.[71]

 

39.

Sugar intake is higher in people with Parkinson's

disease.[72]

 

40.

Sugar can increase the size of your liver by making

your liver cells divide, and it can increase the amount of fat in your liver,

leading to fatty liver disease.[73]

[74]

 

41.

Sugar can increase kidney size and produce

pathological changes in the kidney such as the formation of kidney stones.[75]

[76]

Fructose is helping to drive up rates of kidney disease. 1

42.

Sugar can damage your pancreas.[77]

 

43.

Sugar can increase your body's fluid retention.[78]

 

44.

Sugar is enemy #1 of your bowel movement.[79]

 

45.

Sugar can compromise the lining of your capillaries.[80]

 

46.

Sugar can make your tendons more brittle.[81]

 

47.

Sugar can cause headaches, including migraines.[82]

 

48.

Sugar can reduce the learning capacity, adversely

affect your children's grades and cause learning disorders.[83]

[84]

 

49.

Sugar can cause an increase in delta, alpha, and

theta brain waves, which can alter your ability to think clearly.[85]

 

50.

Sugar can cause depression.[86]

 

51.

Sugar can increase your risk of gout.[87]

 

52.

Sugar can increase your risk of Alzheimer's disease.[88]

MRI studies show that adults 60 and older who have high uric acid are

four to five times more likely to have vascular dementia, the second most

common form of dementia after Alzheimer’s.1

53.

Sugar can cause hormonal imbalances such as:

increasing estrogen in men, exacerbating PMS, and decreasing growth hormone.[89]

[90]

[91]

[92]

 

54.

Sugar can lead to dizziness.[93]

 

55.

Diets high in sugar will increase free radicals and

oxidative stress.[94]

 

56.

A high sucrose diet of subjects with peripheral

vascular disease significantly increases platelet adhesion.[95]

 

57.

High sugar consumption by pregnant adolescents can

lead to a substantial decrease in gestation duration and is associated with a

twofold-increased risk for delivering a small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infant.[96]

[97]

 

58.

Sugar is an addictive substance.[98]

 

59.

Sugar can be intoxicating, similar to alcohol.[99]

 

60.

Sugar given to premature babies can affect the amount

of carbon dioxide they produce.[100]

 

61.

Decrease in sugar intake can increase emotional

stability.[101]

 

62.

Your body changes sugar into 2 to 5 times more fat in

the bloodstream than it does starch.[102]

 

63.

The rapid absorption of sugar promotes excessive food

intake in obese subjects.[103]

 

64.

Sugar can worsen the symptoms of children with

attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).[104]

 

65.

Sugar adversely affects urinary electrolyte

composition.[105]

 

66.

Sugar can impair the function of your adrenal glands.[106]

 

67.

Sugar has the potential of inducing abnormal

metabolic processes in normal, healthy individuals, thereby promoting chronic

degenerative diseases.[107]

 

68.

Intravenous feedings (IVs) of sugar water can cut off

oxygen to your brain.[108]

 

69.

Sugar increases your risk of polio.[109]

 

70.

High sugar intake can cause epileptic seizures.[110]

 

71.

Sugar causes high blood pressure in obese people.[111]

 

72.

In intensive care units, limiting sugar saves lives.[112]

 

73.

Sugar may induce cell death.[113]

 

74.

In juvenile rehabilitation centers, when children

were put on low sugar diets, there was a 44 percent drop in antisocial

behavior.[114]

 

75.

Sugar dehydrates newborns.[115]

 

76.

Sugar can cause gum disease.[116]

 

It should now be crystal clear just

how damaging sugar is. You simply cannot achieve your highest degree of health

and vitality if you are consuming a significant amount of it.

Fortunately, your body has an

amazing ability to heal itself when given the basic nutrition it needs, and

your liver has an incredible ability to regenerate. If you start making changes

today, your health WILL begin to improve, returning you to the state of

vitality that nature intended.