Sugarless Diets: The Best Option for Health

There are many, many ways in which sugar undermines your health.

Here are half a dozen ways:

1. Blood glucose spikes and plummets when sugar is consumed.
How can this effect you?
It can lead to mood swings, fatigue, headaches and cravings for more sugar.

2. Sugar increases the risk of:
* obesity
* diabetes
* heart disease
Also studies are linking high sugar diets to cancer.

3. Sugar interferes with immune function.
Bacteria and yeast feed on sugar and when these organisms are out
of balance then infection and illness is more likely.

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4. A chromium deficiency often results from a high sugar diet.
Sugar will rob chromium from foods that do supply chromium. Chromium's function is to regulate blood sugar.

5. Sugar accelerates aging.
How?
Sugar contributes to sagging skin. After sugar hits the bloodstream it attaches itself to proteins. These new molecular structures contributes to loss of skin elasticity.

6. Sugar causes tooth decay.
Sugar causes more decay than any other food.

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Refined sugar, which is not just white sugar, but all the processed food is changing the way our bodies look and function.

Very simply cell membranes are under stress due to poor eating habits. Eating poorly gives us poor energy and provides poor fuel for our cells. Cell membranes are: oxidized, inflamed, lacking in energy and toxic due to the amount of sugar consumed.

Disease is the result. Sugar results in: obesity, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure,strokes, constipation, ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder), joint inflammation, arthritis and pain. High sugar comsumption inflames the body and creates and aggravates many diseases.

Disease is starting with our children. Our children's generation will be the first one in the history of the world to live less than the preceding generation.

Well it is simple, it may not be easy, but it is simple. We will never solve this epidemic until we adopt policies and marketing practices that stop providing people with processed food. Also people need to educate themselves about the food going into their mouths.

The Mediterranean diet is a great solution: whole grains, olives, nuts, fish, fruit, vegetables, lemons, garlic, onions, cruciferous vegetables.

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There are several factors that contribute to making North American diets very poor diets.

First, many people are addicted to refined/processed foods, especially sugar.

Second, food industries that process food intentionally add addictive substances, like high fructurose corn syrup to increase consumers' addiction.

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