Would You Like Some Sugar to Help Make You Sicker?

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The impact sugar has on our health is huge but is given very little thought towards. We talk mostly about diet sugar and the impact that can have on health and forget about white sugar and its impact on our health.

We use it in everything from our morning coffee to our dessert after supper. It is listed as an ingredient in food we would not expect to have sugar. It is almost a hidden ingredient that we just do not think about but if you start to look around at how much you are eating you would be surprised.

We consume a lot of sugar.

Obviously are ancestors did not need to sugar to survive except for the sugar that came naturally from fruits and berries the gathered. It is now a staple. It's one of those things you always have stocked up in your cupboard and it's one of the most commonly used ingredients to sweeten and balance out flavour.

All of your calories that you get from sugar are empty calories which mean they contain pretty much none of the nutrients you need to keep your cells healthy.

Raw sugarcane contains various nutrients that our white sugar is lacking. These nutrients help you metabolize the sugar that you consume. If you are eating white sugar then your body must acquire these nutrients from somewhere so they end up stealing it from your own tissues.

Sugar is a factor in tooth decay, obesity, diabetes, yeast infections, heart disease, osteoporosis and immune dysfunction.

Since it can affect your immune system try eliminating it from your diet if you feel a cold coming on and see what happens.

Sugar is an antinutrient. Antinutrients are compounds, that are either natural or artificial, and they interfere with the proper absorption of nutrients.

This means that among other things calcium is lost in the urine from sugar which then forces the body to remove calcium from the bones in order to keep calcium levels normal. So if you are concerned about osteoporosis you can see where eliminating sugar comes in.

Other minerals that become deficient are chromium, magnesium, and zinc. With a lack of minerals your body has a hard time producing digestive enzymes need for good digestion. Undigested food particles can get into your bloodstream with can cause problems like allergies and immune deficiency diseases. So you can see why food that is commonly put together with sugar can cause allergens.

These are just a few of the things that sugar does to our health. To find out more about sugars negative health effects visit The Healthy Vegetarian.