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.
- Sugar can suppress the immune system
- Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in the body
- Sugar can cause hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and crankiness in children
- Sugar can produce a significant rise in triglycerides
- Sugar contributes to the reduction in defense against bacterial infection (infectious diseases)
- Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function, the more sugar you eat the more elasticity and function you loose
- Sugar reduces high density lipoproteins
- Sugar leads to chromium deficiency
- Sugar leads to cancer of the breast, ovaries, prostrate, and rectum
- Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose
- Sugar causes copper deficiency
- Sugar interferes with absorption of calcium and magnesium
- Sugar can weaken eyesight
- Sugar raises the level of a neurotransmitters: dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine
- Sugar can cause hypoglycemia
- Sugar can produce an acidic digestive tract
- Sugar can cause a rapid rise of adrenaline levels in children
- Sugar malabsorption is frequent in patients with functional bowel disease
- Sugar can cause premature aging
- Sugar can lead to alcoholism
- Sugar can cause tooth decay
- Sugar contributes to obesity
- High intake of sugar increases the risk of Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis
- Sugar can cause changes frequently found in person with gastric or duodenal ulcers
- Sugar can cause arthritis
- Sugar can cause asthma
- Sugar greatly assists the uncontrolled growth of Candida Albicans (yeast infections)
- Sugar can cause gallstones
- Sugar can cause heart disease
- Sugar can cause appendicitis
- Sugar can cause multiple sclerosis
- Sugar can cause hemorrhoids
- Sugar can cause varicose veins
- Sugar can elevate glucose and insulin responses in oral contraceptive users
- Sugar can lead to periodontal disease
- Sugar can contribute to osteoporosis
- Sugar contributes to saliva acidity
- Sugar can cause a decrease in insulin sensitivity
- Sugar can lower the amount of Vitamin E in the blood
- Sugar can decrease growth hormone
- Sugar can increase cholesterol
- Sugar can increase the systolic blood pressure
- Sugar can cause drowsiness and decreased activity in children
- High sugar intake increases advanced glycation end products (AGEs)(Sugar bound non- enzymatically to protein)
- Sugar can interfere with the absorption of protein
- Sugar causes food allergies
- Sugar can contribute to diabetes
- Sugar can cause toxemia during pregnancy
- Sugar can contribute to eczema in children
- Sugar can cause cardiovascular disease
- Sugar can impair the structure of DNA
- Sugar can change the structure of protein
- Sugar can make our skin age by changing the structure of collagen
- Sugar can cause cataracts
- Sugar can cause emphysema
- Sugar can cause atherosclerosis
- Sugar can promote an elevation of low density lipoproteins (LDL)
- High sugar intake can impair the physiological homeostasis of many systems in the body
- Sugar lowers the enzymes ability to function
- Sugar intake is higher in people with Parkinson’s disease
- Sugar can cause a permanent altering the way the proteins act in the body
- Sugar can increase the size of the liver by making the liver cells divide
- Sugar can increase the amount of liver fat
- Sugar can increase kidney size and produce pathological changes in the kidney
- Sugar can damage the pancreas
- Sugar can increase the body's fluid retention
- Sugar is enemy #1 of the bowel movement
- Sugar can cause myopia (nearsightedness)
- Sugar can compromise the lining of the capillaries
- Sugar can make the tendons more brittle
- Sugar can cause headaches, including migraine
- Sugar plays a role in pancreatic cancer in women
- Sugar can adversely affect school children's grades and cause learning disorders
- Sugar can cause an increase in delta, alpha, and theta brain waves
- Sugar can cause depression
- Sugar increases the risk of gastric cancer
- Sugar and cause dyspepsia (indigestion)
- Sugar can increase your risk of getting gout
- Sugar can increase the levels of glucose in an oral glucose tolerance test over the ingestion of complex carbohydrates
- Sugar can increase the insulin responses in humans consuming high-sugar diets compared to low sugar diets
- High refined sugar diet reduces learning capacity
- 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
- Sugar can contribute to Alzheimer’s disease
- Sugar can cause platelet adhesiveness
- Sugar can cause hormonal imbalance; some hormones become underactive and others become overactive
- Sugar can lead to the formation of kidney stones
- Sugar can lead to the hypothalamus to become highly sensitive to a large variety of stimuli
- Sugar can lead to dizziness
- Diets high in sugar can cause free radicals and oxidative stress
- High sucrose diets of subjects with peripheral vascular disease significantly increases platelet adhesion
- High sugar diet can lead to biliary tract cancer
- Sugar feeds cancer
- High sugar consumption of pregnant adolescents is associated with a twofold increased risk for delivering a small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infant
- High sugar consumption can lead to substantial decrease in gestation duration among adolescents
- Sugar slows food's travel time through the gastrointestinal tract
- Sugar increases the concentration of bile acids in stools and bacterial enzymes in the colon
- Sugar increases estradiol (the most potent form of naturally occurring estrogen) in men
- Sugar combines and destroys phosphatase, an enzyme, which makes the process of digestion more dificult
- Sugar can be a risk factor of gallbladder cancer
- Sugar is an addictive substance
- Sugar can be intoxicating, similar to alcohol
- Sugar can exacerbate PMS
- Sugar given to premature babies can affect the amount of carbon dioxide they produce
- Decrease in sugar intake can increase emotional stability
- The body changes sugar into 2 to 5 times more fat in the bloodstream than it does starch
- The rapid absorption of sugar promotes excessive food intake in obese subjects
- Sugar can worsen the symptoms of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Sugar adversely affects urinary electrolyte composition
- Sugar can slow down the ability of the adrenal glands to function
- Sugar has the potential of inducing abnormal metabolic processes in a normal healthy individual and to promote chronic degenerative diseases
- I.Vs (intravenous feedings) of sugar water can cut off oxygen to the brain
- High sucrose intake could be an important risk factor in lung cancer
- Sugar increases the risk of polio
- High sugar intake can cause epileptic seizures
- Sugar causes high blood pressure in obese people
- In Intensive Care Units: Limiting sugar saves lives
- Sugar may induce cell death
- Sugar may impair the physiological homeostasis of many systems in living organisms
- In juvenile rehabilitation camps, when children were put on a low sugar diet, there was a 44% drop in antisocial behavior
- Sugar can cause gastric cancer
- Sugar dehydrates newborns
- Sugar can cause gum disease
- Sugar increases the estradiol in young men
- Sugar can cause low birth weight babies
Contributed by Nancy Appleton, Ph.D., http://www.nancyappleton.com
Author of the book "Lick The Sugar Habit"
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