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- Megan, selected from Experience Life
- May 19, 2011
- 4:07 pm
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By Catherine Guthrie, Experience Life
As kids, we were taught that too much sugar would rot our teeth, but today we know that the ramifications of a lifelong sugar splurge are scarier than a finger-wagging dentist. Yes, sugar can cause cavities, but of much greater concern is the sweet stuff’s link to bodywide inflammation.
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Sugar can contribute to cellular inflammation, which is like a continuing series of paper cuts that compromise cell function. Deep inside the body, these microscopic wounds fester below the pain threshold. Because many of us don’t see or feel the damage, there is little incentive to cut back on the inflammatory diet that is causing this constant cellular damage, so the party continues.
That is, until the body blows a gasket. Left unchecked, inflammation can unleash dozens of different diseases.
Here are just a few of the malfunctions related to a lifetime of sweet indulgence.
Next: Heart Disease and Cancer
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Megan, selected from Experience Life
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Nothing much I would see myself doing...
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61 comments
+ add your ownSugar is sugar. thanks
Sugar=poison.
Great info. Thanks for sharing.
Very helpful information. Thanks for the warning!
Good info
Thanks for the info I have sweet tooth and love sweets in any form
that's way i am such a sweet person
Ty.
I think it's so important to keep sugar low in your diet - I have personally seen and felt the effects of having a high level of sugar in your diet, and keeping your sugar levels at a healthy low is very important!
Is this article referring to cane sugar only? I use Agave syrup.
For all of you thinking that you can save the rain-forests by eating less sugar, it won't help. Almost ALL the "sugar" produced for use in the food "industry", ( mostly soda and "candy") comes from corn and is grown in much of the US and Canada, not south America. It is cheap to produce and it has had lots of government subsidies to keep it cheap to turn the corn into high fructose corn syrup. It is getting harder and harder to find a "product" in the grocery store made with cane sugar. You can still by all the sugar you want, (white, brown or powdered), while it isn't good for you, it isn't as bad for you as the stuff from genetically modified corn, that is the real killer. I don't advocate eating a lot of sugar but I will always enjoy a fresh from the oven cookie (with real sugar in it) over anything made and sold in a package, wrapper or box.
My six year old is happy to much on cherry tomatoes or blueberries from the garden for a summer snack, but she will still get to enjoy an occasional homemade cookie, pie slice or cupcake. No cheap candy or pop to be seen though.
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