Sugar, sugar, sugar...You add it to your morning cup of coffee or tea, you bake it into pastries, cakes, and cookies, and you might even sprinkle some on your breakfast cereal or oatmeal for added "flavor". However that's not it, sugar is also hidden in what you consume on a daily basis, such as sodas, fruit juices, candies and ice cream. You can even find them in processed foods, including breads, meats and ketchup.
Most people view foods with sugar as tasty treats, but to the three words to more accurately describe sugar would be: toxic, addicting and deadly. Sugar is one of the most damaging substances that you can ingest, and what is scary is that it is exists in almost all foods you consume in your everyday diet.
Today, an average American consumes about 32 teaspoons of sugar per day. Dr. Robert Lustig, a professor of Clinical Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology in the University of California, works with decoding sugar metabolism. He says that your body can safely metabolize six teaspoons of added sugar per day, which is three times less than most Americans are consuming. So if only six teaspoons get safely digested, what happens with the rest?
The excess sugar becomes metabolized into body fat, which can lead to many debilitating chronic metabolic diseases many people struggle with. Here are some examples of how sugar impacts your body:
- It overloads and damages your liver. Sugar or fructose has similar affects to what alcohol does to your liver. All the food that you eat is broken down by the liver, so all the fructose you consume goes there, overloading the liver, and in the end causing liver damage.
- It tricks your body into gaining weight, as fructose tricks your metabolism by turning off your body's appetite-control system. It doesn't stimulate the insulin, which then fat ls to suppress ghrelin (hunger hormone), which then fails to stimulate leptin (satiety hormone). This causes you to eat more and develop insulting resistance.
- It can cause metabolic dysfunction. Eating too much sugar causes symptoms known as classic metabolic syndrome, which include weight gain, abdominal obesity, elevated blood sugar, high blood pressure and more.
- It increases you uric acid levels, which is a risk factor for heart and kidney disease.
In addition to all of these horrible effects sugar has on your body, it can also increase your risk of getting the condition "non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)". It has been proven that too much sugar and fructose intake can cause the same disease as you can get from alcohol intake. One similarity between alcohol and sugar is that your liver metabolizes alcohol the same as fructose. Another thing is that fructose can also indirectly stimulate the brain and create a dependence (addiction), the same way that ethanol in alcohol does.
However don't think that this is the only thing sugar does to your body. Research has shown that sugar is a primary dietary factor that drives obesity and chronic disease development:
- Fructose is food for cancer cells, promoting cell division and speeding their growth, which allows the cancer to spread faster.
- Alzheimers disease can also arise from too much sugar. The connection between a high-fructose diet and your risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, is the same pathway through which type 2 diabetes is caused. Experts say that brain disorders may be caused from the constant burning of glucose for fuel by your brain.
Other diseases linked to metabolic syndrome that can arise because of too much sugar include: type 2 diabetes, hypertension, lipid problems, heart disease, polycystic ovarian syndrome and dementia.
Now, after reading all of these negative impacts sugar has on your body, try to control the amount of sugar you consume. I know it might be hard to quit eating sugar for good, but by cutting out at least foods with added sugar (fructose) you will do your body a huge favor. Trust me, you might think sugar has had no effects on you yet, but you might regret it some day. Stop eating sugar, it is toxic, addicting and deadly.
Sugar, sugar, sugar...You add it to your morning cup of coffee or tea, you bake it into pastries, cakes, and cookies, and you might even sprinkle some on your breakfast cereal or oatmeal for added "flavor". However that's not it, sugar is also hidden in what you consume on a daily basis, such as sodas, fruit juices, candies and ice cream. You can even find them in processed foods, including breads, meats and ketchup.
Most people view foods with sugar as tasty treats, but to the three words to more accurately describe sugar would be: toxic, addicting and deadly. Sugar is one of the most damaging substances that you can ingest, and what is scary is that it is exists in almost all foods you consume in your everyday diet.
Today, an average American consumes about 32 teaspoons of sugar per day. Dr. Robert Lustig, a professor of Clinical Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology in the University of California, works with decoding sugar metabolism. He says that your body can safely metabolize six teaspoons of added sugar per day, which is three times less than most Americans are consuming. So if only six teaspoons get safely digested, what happens with the rest?
The excess sugar becomes metabolized into body fat, which can lead to many debilitating chronic metabolic diseases many people struggle with. Here are some examples of how sugar impacts your body:
- It overloads and damages your liver. Sugar or fructose has similar affects to what alcohol does to your liver. All the food that you eat is broken down by the liver, so all the fructose you consume goes there, overloading the liver, and in the end causing liver damage.
- It tricks your body into gaining weight, as fructose tricks your metabolism by turning off your body's appetite-control system. It doesn't stimulate the insulin, which then fat ls to suppress ghrelin (hunger hormone), which then fails to stimulate leptin (satiety hormone). This causes you to eat more and develop insulting resistance.
- It can cause metabolic dysfunction. Eating too much sugar causes symptoms known as classic metabolic syndrome, which include weight gain, abdominal obesity, elevated blood sugar, high blood pressure and more.
- It increases you uric acid levels, which is a risk factor for heart and kidney disease.
In addition to all of these horrible effects sugar has on your body, it can also increase your risk of getting the condition "non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)". It has been proven that too much sugar and fructose intake can cause the same disease as you can get from alcohol intake. One similarity between alcohol and sugar is that your liver metabolizes alcohol the same as fructose. Another thing is that fructose can also indirectly stimulate the brain and create a dependence (addiction), the same way that ethanol in alcohol does.
However don't think that this is the only thing sugar does to your body. Research has shown that sugar is a primary dietary factor that drives obesity and chronic disease development:
- Fructose is food for cancer cells, promoting cell division and speeding their growth, which allows the cancer to spread faster.
- Alzheimers disease can also arise from too much sugar. The connection between a high-fructose diet and your risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, is the same pathway through which type 2 diabetes is caused. Experts say that brain disorders may be caused from the constant burning of glucose for fuel by your brain.
Other diseases linked to metabolic syndrome that can arise because of too much sugar include: type 2 diabetes, hypertension, lipid problems, heart disease, polycystic ovarian syndrome and dementia.
Now, after reading all of these negative impacts sugar has on your body, try to control the amount of sugar you consume. I know it might be hard to quit eating sugar for good, but by cutting out at least foods with added sugar (fructose) you will do your body a huge favor. Trust me, you might think sugar has had no effects on you yet, but you might regret it some day. Stop eating sugar, it is toxic, addicting and deadly.
Now, after reading all of these negative impacts sugar has on your body, try to control the amount of sugar you consume. I know it might be hard to quit eating sugar for good, but by cutting out at least foods with added sugar (fructose) you will do your body a huge favor. Trust me, you might think sugar has had no effects on you yet, but you might regret it some day. Stop eating sugar, it is toxic, addicting and deadly.
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