Sugar,  How do thy damage my health? Let me count the ways…

I gave a free sugar blues teleclass on Monday night, and on it I mentioned several ways that sugar can hurt your body and your health. From an article that I found on Mercola.com, here’s an excerpt of just 15 ways out of over 75(!) that sugar can harm your health:

1. Sugar can suppress your immune system and impair your defenses against infectious disease.
2. Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in your body: causes chromium and copper deficiencies and interferes with absorption of calcium and magnesium.
3. Sugar can cause can cause a rapid rise of adrenaline, hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and crankiness in children.
4. Sugar can produce a significant rise in total cholesterol, triglycerides and bad cholesterol and a decrease in good cholesterol.
5. Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function.
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.
7. Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose and can cause reactive hypoglycemia.
8. Sugar can weaken eyesight.
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.
10. Sugar can cause premature aging.
11. Sugar can lead to alcoholism.
12. Sugar can cause your saliva to become acidic, tooth decay, and periodontal disease.
13. Sugar contributes to obesity.
14. Sugar can cause autoimmune diseases such as: arthritis, asthma, multiple sclerosis.
15. Sugar greatly assists the uncontrolled growth of Candida Albicans (yeast infections).

If you missed the call, all you need to do is let me know and I’ll send you a recording of the call. This is available for a limited time only, so act soon!

If you’re nervous about how the holidays will affect your health, you can always contact me for a free consultation or sign up for a few sugar-breakthrough sessions. All you need to do is contact me.

To read more of this article, see this article on Mercola.com

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