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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.