Happy Halloween everyone!! I hope you have a safe and enjoyable Halloween day! I thought an appropriate post today would be about sugar. Enjoy your treats, but don't overdo it...indulge sparingly on the sugar.
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Sugar can suppress your immune system.
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Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in the
body.
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Sugar can cause juvenile delinquency in
children.
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Sugar eaten during pregnancy and lactation can
influence muscle force production in offspring, which can affect an
individual’s ability to exercise.
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Sugar in soda, when consumed by children,
results in the children drinking less milk.
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Sugar can elevate glucose and insulin responses
and return them to fasting levels slower in oral contraceptive users.
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Sugar can increase reactive oxygen species
(ROS), which can damage cells and tissues.
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Sugar can cause hyperactivity, anxiety,
inability to concentrate and crankiness in children.
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Sugar can produce a significant rise in triglycerides.
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Sugar reduces the body’s ability to defend
against bacterial infection.
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Sugar causes a decline in tissue elasticity and
function – the more sugar you eat, the more elasticity and function you lose.
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Sugar reduces high-density lipoproteins (HDL).
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Sugar can lead to chromium deficiency.
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Sugar can lead to ovarian cancer.
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Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose.
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Sugar causes copper deficiency.
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Sugar interferes with the body’s absorption of
calcium and magnesium.
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Sugar may make eyes more vulnerable to
age-related macular degeneration.
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Sugar raises the level of neurotransmitters:
dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine.
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Sugar can cause hypoglycemia.
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Sugar can lead to an acidic digestive tract.
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Sugar can cause a rapid rise of adrenaline
levels in children.
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Sugar is frequently malabsorbed in patients with
functional bowel disease.
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Sugar can cause premature aging.
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Sugar can lead to alcoholism.
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Sugar can cause tooth decay.
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Sugar can lead to obesity.
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Sugar increases the risk of Crohn’s disease and
ulcerative colitis.
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Sugar can cause gastric or duodenal ulcers.
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Sugar can cause arthritis.
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Sugar can cause learning disorders in school
children.
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Sugar assists the uncontrolled growth of Candida
Albicans (yeast infections).
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Sugar can cause gallstones.
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Sugar can cause heart disease.
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Sugar can cause appendicitis.
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Sugar can cause hemorrhoids.
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Sugar can cause varicose veins.
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Sugar can lead to periodontal disease.
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Sugar can contribute to osteoporosis.
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Sugar contributes to saliva acidity.
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Sugar can cause a decrease in insulin
sensitivity.
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Sugar can lower the amount of Vitamin E in the
blood.
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Sugar can decrease the amount of growth hormones
in the body.
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Sugar can increase cholesterol.
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Sugar increases advanced glycation end products
(AGEs), which form when sugar binds non-enzymatically to protein.
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Sugar can interfere with the absorption of
protein.
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Sugar causes food allergies.
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Sugar can contribute to diabetes.
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Sugar can cause toxemia during pregnancy.
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Sugar can lead to eczema in children.
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Sugar can cause cardiovascular disease.
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Sugar can impair the structure of DNA.
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Sugar can change the structure of protein.
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Sugar can make the skin wrinkle by changing the
structure of collagen.
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Sugar can cause cataracts.
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Sugar can cause emphysema.
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Sugar can cause atherosclerosis.
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Sugar can promote an elevation of low-density
lipoproteins (LDL).
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Sugar can impair the physiological homeostasis
of many systems in the body.
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Sugar lowers enzymes ability to function.
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Sugar intake is associated with the development
of Parkinson’s disease.
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Sugar can increase the size of the liver by
making the liver cells divide.
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Sugar can increase the amount of liver fat.
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Sugar can increase kidney size and produce
pathological changes in the kidney.
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Sugar can damage the pancreas.
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Sugar can increase the body’s fluid retention.
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Sugar is the number one enemy of the bowel
movement.
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Sugar can cause myopia (nearsightedness).
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Sugar can compromise the lining of the
capillaries.
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Sugar can make tendons more brittle.
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Sugar can cause headaches, including migraines.
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Sugar plays a role in pancreatic cancer in
women.
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Sugar can adversely affect children’s grades in
school.
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Sugar can cause depression.
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Sugar increases the risk of gastric cancer.
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Sugar can cause dyspepsia (indigestion).
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Sugar can increase the risk of developing gout.
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Sugar can increase the levels of glucose in the
blood much higher than complex carbohydrates in a glucose tolerance test can.
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Sugar reduces learning capacity.
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Sugar can cause two blood proteins – albumin and
lipoproteins – to function less effectively, which may reduce the body’s
ability to handle fat and cholesterol.
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Sugar can contribute to Alzheimer’s disease.
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Sugar can cause platelet adhesiveness, which
causes blood clots.
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Sugar can cause hormonal imbalance – some
hormones become underactive and others become overactive.
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Sugar can lead to the formation of kidney
stones.
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Sugar can cause free radicals and oxidative
stress.
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Sugar can lead to biliary tract cancer.
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Sugar increases the risk of pregnant adolescents
delivering a small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infant.
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Sugar can lead to a substantial decrease the in
the length of pregnancy among adolescents.
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Sugar slows food’s travel time through the
gastrointestinal tract.
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Sugar increases the concentration of bile acids
in stool and bacterial enzymes in the colon, which can modify bile to produce
cancer-causing compounds and colon cancer.
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Sugar increases estradiol (the most potent form
of naturally occurring estrogen) in men.
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Sugar combines with and destroys phosphatase, a
digestive enzyme, which makes digestion more difficult.
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Sugar can be a risk factor for gallbladder
cancer.
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Sugar is an addictive substance.
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Sugar can be intoxicating, similar to alcohol.
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Sugar can aggravate premenstrual syndrome (PMS).
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Sugar can decrease emotional stability.
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Sugar promotes excessive food intake in obese
people.
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Sugar can worsen the symptoms of children with
attention deficit disorder (ADD).
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Sugar can slow the ability of the adrenal glands
to function.
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Sugar can cut off oxygen to the brain when given
to people intravenously.
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Sugar is a risk factor for lung cancer.
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Sugar increases the risk of polio.
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Sugar can cause epileptic seizures.
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Sugar can increase systolic blood pressure
(pressure when the heart is contracting).
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Sugar can induce cell death.
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Sugar can increase the amount of food that you
eat.
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Sugar can cause antisocial behavior in juvenile
delinquents.
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Sugar can lead to prostate cancer.
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Sugar dehydrates newborns.
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Sugar can cause women to give birth to babies
with low birth weight.
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Sugar is associated with a worse outcome of
schizophrenia.
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Sugar can raise homocysteine levels in the
bloodstream.
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Sugar increases the risk of breast cancer.
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Sugar is a risk factor in small intestine
cancer.
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Sugar can cause laryngeal cancer.
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Sugar induces salt and water retention.
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Sugar can contribute to mild memory loss.
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Sugar water, when given to children shortly
after birth, results in those children preferring sugar water to regular water
throughout childhood.
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Sugar causes constipation.
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Sugar can cause brain decay in pre-diabetic and
diabetic women.
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Sugar can increase the risk of stomach cancer.
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Sugar can cause metabolic syndrome.
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Sugar increases neural tube defects in embryos
when it is consumed by pregnant women.
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Sugar can cause asthma.
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Sugar increases the chances of getting irritable
bowl syndrome.
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Sugar can affect central reward systems.
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Sugar can cause cancer of the rectum.
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Sugar can cause endometrial cancer.
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Sugar can cause renal (kidney) cell cancer.
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Sugar can cause liver tumors.
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Sugar can increase inflammatory markers in the
bloodstreams of overweight people.
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Sugar plays a role in the cause and the
continuation of acne.
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Sugar can ruin the sex life of both men and
women by turning off the gene that controls the sex hormones.
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Sugar can cause fatigue, moodiness, nervousness,
and depression.
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Sugar can make many essential nutrients less
available to cells.
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Sugar can increase uric acid in blood.
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Sugar can lead to higher C-peptide
concentrations.
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Sugar causes inflammation.
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Sugar can cause diverticulitis, a small bulging
sac pushing outward from the colon wall that is inflamed.
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Sugar can decrease testosterone production.
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Sugar impairs spatial memory.
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Sugar can cause cataracts.