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124 Ways Sugar Can Ruin Your Health

Contributed by Nancy Appleton, Ph.D., www.nancyappleton.com
Author of the book "Lick The Sugar Habit"

In addition to throwing off the body's homeostasis, excess sugar may result in a number of other significant consequences. The following is a listing of some of sugar's metabolic consequences from a variety of medical journals and other scientific publications.

1. Sugar can suppress the immune system
2. Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in the body
3. Sugar can cause hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and crankiness in children
4. Sugar can produce a significant rise in triglycerides
5. Sugar contributes to the reduction in defense against bacterial infection (infectious diseases)
6. Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function, the more sugar you eat the more elasticity and function you loose
7. Sugar reduces high density lipoproteins
8. Sugar leads to chromium deficiency
9. Sugar leads to cancer of the breast, ovaries, prostrate, and rectum
10. Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose
11. Sugar causes copper deficiency
12. Sugar interferes with absorption of calcium and magnesium
13. Sugar can weaken eyesight
14. Sugar raises the level of a neurotransmitters: dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine
15. Sugar can cause hypoglycemia
16. Sugar can produce an acidic digestive tract
17. Sugar can cause a rapid rise of adrenaline levels in children
18. Sugar malabsorption is frequent in patients with functional bowel disease
19. Sugar can cause premature aging
20. Sugar can lead to alcoholism
21. Sugar can cause tooth decay
22. Sugar contributes to obesity
23. High intake of sugar increases the risk of Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis
24. Sugar can cause changes frequently found in person with gastric or duodenal ulcers
25. Sugar can cause arthritis
26. Sugar can cause asthma
27. Sugar greatly assists the uncontrolled growth of Candida Albicans (yeast infections)
28. Sugar can cause gallstones
29. Sugar can cause heart disease
30. Sugar can cause appendicitis
31. Sugar can cause multiple sclerosis
32. Sugar can cause hemorrhoids
33. Sugar can cause varicose veins
34. Sugar can elevate glucose and insulin responses in oral contraceptive users
35. Sugar can lead to periodontal disease
36. Sugar can contribute to osteoporosis
37. Sugar contributes to saliva acidity
38. Sugar can cause a decrease in insulin sensitivity
39. Sugar can lower the amount of Vitamin E in the blood
40. Sugar can decrease growth hormone
41. Sugar can increase cholesterol
42. Sugar can increase the systolic blood pressure
43. Sugar can cause drowsiness and decreased activity in children
44. High sugar intake increases advanced glycation end products (AGEs)(Sugar bound non- enzymatically to protein)
45. Sugar can interfere with the absorption of protein
46. Sugar causes food allergies
47. Sugar can contribute to diabetes
48. Sugar can cause toxemia during pregnancy
49. Sugar can contribute to eczema in children
50. Sugar can cause cardiovascular disease
51. Sugar can impair the structure of DNA
52. Sugar can change the structure of protein
53. Sugar can make our skin age by changing the structure of collagen
54. Sugar can cause cataracts
55. Sugar can cause emphysema
56. Sugar can cause atherosclerosis
57. Sugar can promote an elevation of low density lipoproteins (LDL)
58. High sugar intake can impair the physiological homeostasis of many systems in the body
59. Sugar lowers the enzymes ability to function
60. Sugar intake is higher in people with Parkinson’s disease
61. Sugar can cause a permanent altering the way the proteins act in the body
62. Sugar can increase the size of the liver by making the liver cells divide
63. Sugar can increase the amount of liver fat
64. Sugar can increase kidney size and produce pathological changes in the kidney
65. Sugar can damage the pancreas
66. Sugar can increase the body's fluid retention
67. Sugar is enemy #1 of the bowel movement
68. Sugar can cause myopia (nearsightedness)
69. Sugar can compromise the lining of the capillaries
70. Sugar can make the tendons more brittle
71. Sugar can cause headaches, including migraine
72. Sugar plays a role in pancreatic cancer in women
73. Sugar can adversely affect school children's grades and cause learning disorders
74. Sugar can cause an increase in delta, alpha, and theta brain waves
75. Sugar can cause depression
76. Sugar increases the risk of gastric cancer
77. Sugar and cause dyspepsia (indigestion)
78. Sugar can increase your risk of getting gout
79. Sugar can increase the levels of glucose in an oral glucose tolerance test over the ingestion of complex carbohydrates
80. Sugar can increase the insulin responses in humans consuming high-sugar diets compared to low sugar diets
81. High refined sugar diet reduces learning capacity
82. 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
83. Sugar can contribute to Alzheimer’s disease
84. Sugar can cause platelet adhesiveness
85. Sugar can cause hormonal imbalance; some hormones become underactive and others become overactive
86. Sugar can lead to the formation of kidney stones
87. Sugar can lead to the hypothalamus to become highly sensitive to a large variety of stimuli
88. Sugar can lead to dizziness
89. Diets high in sugar can cause free radicals and oxidative stress
90. High sucrose diets of subjects with peripheral vascular disease significantly increases platelet adhesion
91. High sugar diet can lead to biliary tract cancer
92. Sugar feeds cancer
93. High sugar consumption of pregnant adolescents is associated with a twofold increased risk for delivering a small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infant
94. High sugar consumption can lead to substantial decrease in gestation duration among adolescents
95. Sugar slows food's travel time through the gastrointestinal tract
96. Sugar increases the concentration of bile acids in stools and bacterial enzymes in the colon
97. Sugar increases estradiol (the most potent form of naturally occurring estrogen) in men
98. Sugar combines and destroys phosphatase, an enzyme, which makes the process of digestion more dificult
99. Sugar can be a risk factor of gallbladder cancer
100. Sugar is an addictive substance
101. Sugar can be intoxicating, similar to alcohol
102. Sugar can exacerbate PMS
103. Sugar given to premature babies can affect the amount of carbon dioxide they produce
104. Decrease in sugar intake can increase emotional stability
105. The body changes sugar into 2 to 5 times more fat in the bloodstream than it does starch
106. The rapid absorption of sugar promotes excessive food intake in obese subjects
107. Sugar can worsen the symptoms of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
108. Sugar adversely affects urinary electrolyte composition
109. Sugar can slow down the ability of the adrenal glands to function
110. Sugar has the potential of inducing abnormal metabolic processes in a normal healthy individual and to promote chronic degenerative diseases
111. I.Vs (intravenous feedings) of sugar water can cut off oxygen to the brain
112. High sucrose intake could be an important risk factor in lung cancer
113. Sugar increases the risk of polio
114. High sugar intake can cause epileptic seizures
115. Sugar causes high blood pressure in obese people
116. In Intensive Care Units: Limiting sugar saves lives
117. Sugar may induce cell death
118. Sugar may impair the physiological homeostasis of many systems in living organisms
119. In juvenile rehabilitation camps, when children were put on a low sugar diet, there was a 44% drop in antisocial behavior
120. Sugar can cause gastric cancer
121. Sugar dehydrates newborns
122. Sugar can cause gum disease
123. Sugar increases the estradiol in young men
124. Sugar can cause low birth weight babies

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58. Ceriello, A. Oxidative Stress and Glycemic Regulation. Metabolism. Feb 2000;49(2 Suppl 1):27-29.
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63. Ibid.
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66. Ibid. fluid retention
67. Ibid. bowel movement
68. Ibid. nearsightedness
69. Ibid. compromise the lining of the capillaries
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74. Christensen, L. The Role of Caffeine and Sugar in Depression. Nutrition Report. Mar 1991;9(3):17-24.
75. Ibid.
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78. Ibid, 44
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82. Monnier, V., Nonenzymatic Glycosylation, the Maillard Reaction and the Aging Process. Journal of Gerontology. 1990;45:105-111.
83. Frey, J. Is There Sugar in the Alzheimer’s Disease? Annales De Biologie Clinique. 2001; 59 (3):253-257.
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85. Ibid.
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90. Postgraduate Medicine.Sept 1969:45:602-07.
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96. Ibid. Kruis, W., et al. Effects of Diets Low and High in Refined Sugars on Gut Transit, Bile Acid Metabolism and Bacterial Fermentation. Gut. 1991;32:367-370. Ludwig, D. S., et al. High Glycemic Index Foods, Overeating, And Obesity. Pediatrics. Mar 1999;103(3):26-32.
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111. Arieff, A. I. Veterans Administration Medical Center in San Francisco. San Jose Mercury; June 12/86. IVs of sugar water can cut off oxygen to the brain.
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My grandfather, born in the later 1800's, and who died at around aged 96 or thereabouts, ate heaps of white sugar all his life. At the same time, almost everything else he consumed was home grown and unprocessed.

There is a danger of singling out one thing and then trotting out all the correlations it has been shown to have with various bad events. The implication is that if we just stop consuming all sugar, these evils will go away. This kind of simplistic thinking is a minefield. In a world that also contains lots of prescribed medications, plastics exposed to the sun (e.g. car dashboards), X rays, microwave exposure, foods that have been raised with pesticides and hormones, etc etc etc...to just narrow it down to sugar as the principal demon is stupid. There is rarely ONE cause for anything that happens. Many people live to ripe old ages happily consuming cakes and candies in moderation.

We here choose to not consume these things because we have insulin and weight issues. Some people can't eat gluten either, or foods that trigger gout...

I am not trying to advocate for sugar...far from it..I am saying lets not go off the deep end looking for the ONE cause. We humans should, for the most part, be able to eat small amounts of sugar. Bears, also omnivores like us, manage to eat the occasional feast of honey and berries, harvested with a fair amount of effort, and live out their bear lives without all the threats suggested in this article. It is our tendency to eat profligately of these over-available treats that brings problems.

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Val,

I certainly agree with you that fixing one cause is not a total solution, but I found the list very interesing in that all the problems were documented. I have seen similar lists that list what problems low-carb diets cause, but they never have references to any studies.
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I agree it was interesting, and it is indeed preferable to provide citations..but just because something is referenced does not mean the study referenced was a good one. I can think of many studies, including one that was dissected here recently, that was pro-hi carb, are very poorly done. So equally it is possible that a lot of the links provided anti-sugar were poorly done.

My comment was really not about this though, but about the tendency to isolate, or reduce, issues to one main baddy when they are likely multi-factorial. So it is not 'just sugar', or 'just low fat', or just one anything that caused all our obesity. It is also lack of exercise overall, huge portions, mixing fats and carbs, transfats, processing, and so on. Then we have all the other potential evils mentioned in my previous post such as plastics in their infinite variety which can also be linked to bad health outcomes..

Just making a point. We are quite happy to tear apart the citations and evidence given against what we embrace, say sucralose, but not against sugar. I don't believe that either of them, unless one has a considerable and obvious problem with them, if consumed very moderately as millions do, is going to be a big problem. The same is true for say alcohol...if consumed very moderately it is not a problem. One could just as easily create a similar, well documented list of the evils of demon drink.

The WHO has been saying for some years that refined sugar is a big problem but in our globalized world, economic forces larger than WHO lobby our governments. Same is true for the massive pharmaceutical industry who totally orchestrate how we think about disease...the case against sat fats being an example. But that's another discussion...

So just as I choose not to drink more than 2 glasses of wine, so I choose to rarely, if ever consume refined sugar. I avoided sugar, honey etc. for probably 20 years, but still got fat. My grandfather ate heaps of it and was always slim.

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Well, it just puts me in mind of the Gloria Swanson interview, where she referred to it as "White Death!"
Which is how we refer to it in our household.
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Wow...
Quite a lot of info to support the list. I copied and pasted so I can look into some things that my apply to me or my family.

I appreciate you posting this, although it was almost a year ago.

I haven't read the whole list, and I never heard the term "White Death". I do however feel strongly about sugar and I figure if my body went through so much getting it out of my system, such as the headaches etc while doing induction, it should never have been there in the first place.

Recently---- a few weeks ago, I don't know exactly why, but it was during vacation I started drinking Mocha's everyday. Up tho that point I had been feeling quite well, not perfect, after all I still weighed 260... I was running around Disney land and Universal studios and such... I got into the Mocha's--- and within a day or so of being home I started feeling sluggish again, first time since about a week into induction last December. I also started having muscle spasms, again something that had subsided for 9 months.
I know in my heart and soul that sugar triggered these for me.

Maybe some people can tolerate sugar--- or wheat for that matter... and some of us can't. It's definitely something to look into and you gave us some great places---124 of them to start that looking.
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I believe you exchange high insulin level for sugar in all those points.
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I found the list very interesing in that all the problems were documented. I have seen similar lists that list what problems low-carb diets cause, but they never have references to any studies.


Thanks for sharing the list. It is very interesting.
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I believe you can exchange high insulin level for sugar in all those points.

I agree, this article refers just to sugar, but if you look at it as refined carbs, which are particularly good at raising insulin levels and causing insulin resistance, you might be able to see how Val's grandfather, who ate sugar balanced with unprocessed foods (as Val said), lived slimly to 96, while Val avoided sweets (and I presume consumed lots of refined carbs) and gained weight. [Val, please correct me if I'm wrong.]
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It's not just white sugar, it's all the refined, over processed foods that we eat in this day in age. I first heard the term White Death being used for sugar, in a book Sugar Blues, written in 1976.

The author talks about how all foods grow with the correct amount of fiber to balance the carbs naturally present in the food. We have processed so many of these foods that they are no longer in balance. Add to this all the chemicals we put in food to preserve them and bingo, you've got a recipe for future health problems.
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