Is Sugar Toxic to Your Body? 

The video below shows how sugar not only CAUSES heart disease and diabetes, but also FEEDS tumors and is as addictive as Cocaine to your brain

by Mike Geary - Certified Personal Trainer, Certified Nutrition Specialist
Author of best-sellers:  The Fat-Burning Kitchen   &  The Top 101 Foods that FIGHT Aging

I think everybody needs to watch this video from a recent 60 Minutes episode to see just how harmful to your health sugar really is.  I don't think most people understand the seriousness of this.  So many people seem to blindly eat and drink loads of sugar each day (Americans consume a whopping 1/3 lb of sugar per DAY on average) without thinking about how this internally affects your body and your biochemistry.

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Mike's comments:

As you can see in the video, it should be no surprise to anybody that studies clearly relate excess sugar consumption to obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.

You might argue that some natural sugars have always been in the human diet, so why is this an issue? 

Well, yes humans have always eaten small amounts of natural sugars from fruit as part of the ancestral diet, but we've never historically been exposed to the massive amounts of added sugars that we see in today's world of sweetened drinks, candies, cakes, cookies, as well as added sugars in everything from condiments to dressings to tomato sauces.  Especially the massive quantity of sugar exposure from corn syrup!
 

130 POUNDS of sugar per year (Yuck!)

As you can see in the video, the average American eats a sickening 130 lbs of sugar per person per year, or 1/3 lb per day!  That's just nasty if you ask me, and shows how little most people respect their body, or even think about what they're putting in their body on a daily basis.

The video also mentions that in one controlled study, they replaced 25% of the daily calories of the subjects with sugary drinks, and took continual blood tests.  The tests showed that by replacing 25% of their daily calories with sugary drinks, the subjects increased their dangerous small dense LDL particles in their blood which causes arterial plaque and heart disease.  Yes, in fact, sugar and carbs in general contribute more to heart disease than fats do, as we've covered in depth in this article .

We also need to realize that high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a relatively new invention in the human diet and is something that your body does not know how to properly handle.  HFCS didn't really become part of the human food supply until the 1970's and now it's found it fairly large quantities in almost every processed food on the grocery shelves.  As the video points out, HFCS consumption is clearly linked to increased heart disease and stroke risk.

Is HFCS really "the same" as sugar?

One statement I don't agree with in the video above is that sugar and HFCS are "the same".  While I agree that they are both terrible for your health and both toxic, there are certainly big differences in how the body processes HFCS vs table sugar or other forms of sugar.   If you don't believe me, check this out below:

Leave it to those geniuses at Princeton to give us some good evidence that HFCS can make you fatter than sugar!  In a 2010 Princeton University study , researchers found that rats given water sweetened with HFCS gained significantly more weight than those given water sweetened with plain sugar, despite calorie intake being the same between both groups .

Princeton researchers also state:  "In addition to causing significant weight gain in lab animals, long-term consumption of high-fructose corn syrup also led to abnormal increases in body fat, especially in the abdomen , and a rise in circulating blood fats called triglycerides ".
 

Sugar FEEDS Cancer and Causes Addiction in Your Brain

Also take note that the video mentions how sugar feeds tumors and can make cancer worse.  In fact, I've been reading more and more about recent cancer research showing benefits to cancer patients of using a ketogenic diet that is super low in sugar and carbs while being high in fat in order to help reverse cancer.

In addition, sugar activates reward centers in your brain, similar to drugs like cocaine, thereby making sugar addictive .  The part of the video where they do brain scans on him while he sips a sugary soda is interesting indeed.

One other thing to mention about this video... I don't fully agree with how they lump honey and real maple syrup in with table sugar or HFCS. 

Although honey and real maple syrup are mostly sugar, and should be minimized overall, both of them at least have additional micronutrients and antioxidants that sugar or HFCS simply don't have, and are fine in moderation.   And honey has even been shown in several studies to improve glucose metabolism in your body when taken in small doses.

In addition, another aspect that the video fails to mention is that it's not just added sugar that causes all of these negative effects in your body, but also fast-digesting carb sources like breads, pastas, bagels, muffins, rice, and other grain-based foods that spike your blood sugar just as quickly as regular table sugar.  For example, each piece of bread you eat is basically equivalent to eating about 20 grams of sugar since the response to your blood sugar and triglyceride levels is essentially the same, if not worse than sugar in some cases.

The bottom line is that food manufacturers want you to be addicted to sugar and continue to buy all of their high profit junk foods and sugary drinks which destroy your health.  But it's time to take control of your health for yourself and not support these giant businesses who only care about their corporate profit and not about how they are destroying your health.
 

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