WHY NOT HONEY INSTEAD? Is there anything good about SUGAR?
- Sugar can suppress the immune system.
- Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in the body.
- It can cause hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and crankiness in children.
- It can produce a significant rise in triglycerides.
- It contributes to the reduction in defence against bacterial infection (Infectious Diseases).
- It causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function, the more sugar you eat, the more elasticity and function you loose.
- It reduces high-density lipoproteins.
- It leads to chromium deficiency.
- It leads to cancer of the ovaries.
- It can increase fasting levels of glucose.
- It causes copper deficiency.
- It interferes with the absorption of calcium and magnesium.
- It can weaken eyesight.
- It raises the level of a neurotransmitter: dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine.
- It can cause hypoglycemia.
- It can produce an acidic digestive tract.
- It can cause a rapid rise of adrenaline levels in children.
- It malabsorption is frequent in patients with functional bowel disease.
- It can cause premature ageing.
- It can lead to alcoholism.
- It can cause tooth decay.
- It contributes to obesity
- High intake of sugar increases the risk of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
- It can cause changes frequently found in a person with gastric or duodenal ulcers.
- It can cause arthritis.
- It can cause asthma.
- It greatly assists the uncontrolled growth of Candida Albicans (yeast infections).
- It can cause gallstones.
- It can cause heart disease.
- It can cause appendicitis.
- It can cause multiple sclerosis.
- It can cause haemorrhoids.
- It can cause varicose veins.
- It can elevate glucose and insulin responses in oral contraceptive users.
- It can lead to periodontal disease.
- It can contribute to osteoporosis.
- It contributes to saliva acidity.
- It can cause a decrease in insulin sensitivity.
- It can lower the amount of Vitamin E (alpha-Tocopherol) in the blood.
- It can decrease growth hormone.
- It can increase cholesterol.
- It can increase systolic blood pressure.
- It can cause drowsiness and decreased activity in children.
- High sugar intake increases advanced glycation end products (AGEs). (Sugar bound non-enzymatically to protein)
- It can interfere with the absorption of protein.
- It causes food allergies.
- It can contribute to diabetes.
- It can cause toxemia during pregnancy.
- It can contribute to eczema in children.
- It can cause cardiovascular disease.
- It can impair the structure of DNA
- It can change the structure of a protein.
- It can make our skin age by changing the structure of collagen.
- It can cause cataracts.
- It can cause emphysema.
- It can cause atherosclerosis.
- It can promote an elevation of low-density lipoproteins (LDL).
- High sugar intake can impair the physiological homeostasis of many systems in the body.
- It lowers the enzymes ability to function.
- It intake is higher in people with Parkinson’s disease.
- It can cause a permanent altering the way the proteins act in the body.
- It can increase the size of the liver by making the liver cells divide.
- It can increase the amount of liver fat.
- It can increase kidney size and produce pathological changes in the kidney.
- It can damage the pancreas.
- It can increase the body's fluid retention.
- It is the number one enemy of the bowel movement.
- It can cause myopia (nearsightedness).
- It can compromise the lining of the capillaries.
- It can make the tendons more brittle.
- It can cause headaches, including a migraine.
- It plays a role in pancreatic cancer in women.
- It can adversely affect school children's grades and cause learning disorders.
- It can cause an increase in delta, alpha, and theta brain waves.
- It can cause depression.
- It increases the risk of gastric cancer.
- It and cause dyspepsia (indigestion).
- It can increase the risk of getting goit.
- It can increase the levels of glucose in an oral glucose tolerance test over the ingestion of complex carbohydrates.
- It can increase the insulin responses in humans consuming high-sugar diets compared to low sugar diets.
- High refined sugar diet reduces learning capacity.
- It can cause less effective functioning of two blood proteins, albumin,
- and lipoproteins, which may reduce the body’s ability to handle fat and cholesterol.
- It can contribute to Alzheimer’s disease.
- It can cause platelet adhesiveness.
- It can cause hormonal imbalance; some hormones become underactive and others become overactive.
- It can lead to the formation of kidney stones.
- Also, lead to the hypothalamus to become highly sensitive to a large variety of stimuli.
- It can lead to dizziness.
- 89. 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.
- It 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.
- It can be a risk factor for gallbladder cancer.
- It is an addictive substance.
- It can be intoxicating, similar to alcohol.
- It can exacerbate PMS.
- It 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.
- It can worsen the symptoms of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
- It adversely affects urinary electrolyte composition.
- It 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.
- It increases the risk of polio.
- High sugar intake can cause epileptic seizures.
- It causes high blood pressure in obese people.
- In Intensive Care Units, limiting sugar saves lives.
- It may induce cell death.
- It 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.
- It can lead to prostate cancer.
- It dehydrates newborns.
- It increases the estradiol in young men.
- It 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.
- It may cause laryngeal cancer.
- It induces salt and water retention.
- It 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.
- It 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.
- It causes constipation.
- It causes varicose veins.
- It can cause brain decay in prediabetic and diabetic women.
- It can increase the risk of stomach cancer.
- It can cause metabolic syndrome.
- It ingestion by pregnant women increases neural tube defects in embryos.
- It can be a factor in asthma.
- The higher the sugar consumption the more chances of getting irritable bowel syndrome.
- It could affect central reward systems.
- It can cause cancer of the rectum.
- It can cause endometrial cancer.
- It can cause renal (kidney) cell carcinoma.
- It can cause liver tumors.
Dr. Nancy Appleton Bio
Dr. Appleton is currently writing her last book on why The Germ Theory, the medical paradigm of the western world, is incorrect. This theory has taken responsibility for our health away from individuals and given it to doctors and drug companies searching for the right pills. That over the past 100 years or so our failures using this theory sometimes outnumber our successes suggest we need a major shift in health thinking in the present.
You may contact her at gnjdbanancyappleton@gmail.com
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