By Nancy Appleton, PhD.
- 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 defence 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 lose.
- Sugar reduces high-density lipoproteins.
- Sugar leads to chromium deficiency.
- Sugar leads to cancer of the ovaries.
- 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 neurotransmitter: dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine.
- Sugar can cause hypoglycemia.
- Sugar can produce an acidic digestive tract.
- Sugar can cause a rapid rise in adrenaline levels in children.
- Sugar malabsorption is frequent in patients with functional bowel disease.
- Sugar can cause premature ageing.
- 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 a 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 haemorrhoids.
- 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 (alpha-Tocopherol 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 the 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 a 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 out.
- 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 increase 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. This can modify bile to produce cancer-causing compounds and colon cancer.
- 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 difficult.
- Sugar can be a risk factor for 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.
- A 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 for 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 can increase the amount of food that you eat.
- In juvenile rehabilitation camps, when children were put on a low sugar diet, there was a 44% drop in antisocial behaviour.
- Sugar can lead to prostate cancer.
- Sugar dehydrates newborns.
- Sugar increases the estradiol in young men.
- Sugar can cause low birth weight babies.
- Greater consumption of refined sugar is associated with a worse outcome of schizophrenia
- Sugar can raise homocysteine levels in the bloodstream.
- Sweet food items increase the risk of breast cancer.
- Sugar is a risk factor for cancer of the small intestine.
- Sugar may cause laryngeal cancer.
- Sugar induces salt and water retention.
- Sugar may contribute to mild memory loss.
- As sugar increases in the diet of 10 years old, there is a linear decrease in the intake of many essential nutrients.
- Sugar can increase the total amount of food consumed.
- Exposing a newborn to sugar results in a heightened preference for sucrose relative to water at 6 months and 2 years of age.
- Sugar causes constipation.
- Sugar causes varicose veins.
- Sugar can cause brain decay in prediabetic and diabetic women.
- Sugar can increase the risk of stomach cancer.
- Sugar can cause metabolic syndrome.
- Sugar ingestion by pregnant women increases neural tube defects in embryos.
- Sugar can be a factor in asthma.
- The higher the sugar consumption the more chances of getting irritable bowel syndrome.
- Sugar could affect central reward systems.
- Sugar can cause cancer of the rectum.
- Sugar can cause endometrial cancer.
- Sugar can cause renal (kidney) cell carcinoma.
- Sugar can cause liver tumours.
