(Just Kidding, it’s 143)
By Nancy Appleton PhD & G.N. Jacobs
Excerpted from Suicide by Sugar
Used with permission
- Sugar can suppress your immune system.
- Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in the body.
- Sugar can cause juvenile delinquency in children.
- Sugar eaten during pregnancy and lactation can influence muscle force production in offspring, which can affect an individual’s ability to exercise.
- Sugar in soda, when consumed by children, results in the children drinking less milk.
- Sugar can elevate glucose and insulin responses and return them to fasting levels slower in oral contraceptive users.
- Sugar can increase reactive oxygen species (ROS), which can damage cells and tissues.
- Sugar can cause hyperactivity, anxiety, inability to concentrate and crankiness in children.
- Sugar can produce a significant rise in triglycerides.
10. Sugar reduces the body’s ability to defend against bacterial infection.
11. Sugar causes a decline in tissue elasticity and function – the more sugar you eat, the more elasticity and function you lose.
12. Sugar reduces high-density lipoproteins (HDL).
13. Sugar can lead to chromium deficiency.
14. Sugar can lead to ovarian cancer.
15. Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose.
16. Sugar causes copper deficiency.
17. Sugar interferes with the body’s absorption of calcium and magnesium.
18. Sugar may make eyes more vulnerable to age-related macular degeneration.
19. Sugar raises the level of neurotransmitters: dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine.
20. Sugar can cause hypoglycemia.
21. Sugar can lead to an acidic digestive tract.
22. Sugar can cause a rapid rise of adrenaline levels in children.
23. Sugar is frequently malabsorbed in patients with functional bowel disease.
24. Sugar can cause premature aging.
25. Sugar can lead to alcoholism.
26. Sugar can cause tooth decay.
27. Sugar can lead to obesity.
28. Sugar increases the risk of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
29. Sugar can cause gastric or duodenal ulcers.
30. Sugar can cause arthritis.
31. Sugar can cause learning disorders in school children.
32. Sugar assists the uncontrolled growth of Candida Albicans (yeast infections).
33. Sugar can cause gallstones.
34. Sugar can cause heart disease.
35. Sugar can cause appendicitis.
36. Sugar can cause hemorrhoids.
37. Sugar can cause varicose veins.
38. Sugar can lead to periodontal disease.
39. Sugar can contribute to osteoporosis.
40. Sugar contributes to saliva acidity.
41. Sugar can cause a decrease in insulin sensitivity.
42. Sugar can lower the amount of Vitamin E in the blood.
43. Sugar can decrease the amount of growth hormones in the body.
44. Sugar can increase cholesterol.
45. Sugar increases advanced glycation end products (AGEs), which form when sugar binds non-enzymatically to protein.
46. Sugar can interfere with the absorption of protein.
47. Sugar causes food allergies.
48. Sugar can contribute to diabetes.
49. Sugar can cause toxemia during pregnancy.
50. Sugar can lead to eczema in children.
51. Sugar can cause cardiovascular disease.
52. Sugar can impair the structure of DNA.
53. Sugar can change the structure of protein.
54. Sugar can make the skin wrinkle by changing the structure of collagen.
55. Sugar can cause cataracts.
56. Sugar can cause emphysema.
57. Sugar can cause atherosclerosis.
58. Sugar can promote an elevation of low-density lipoproteins (LDL).
59. Sugar can impair the physiological homeostasis of many systems in the body.
60. Sugar lowers enzymes ability to function.
61. Sugar intake is associated with the development of Parkinson’s disease.
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 the number one enemy of the bowel movement.
68. Sugar can cause myopia (nearsightedness).
69. Sugar can compromise the lining of the capillaries.
70. Sugar can make tendons more brittle.
71. Sugar can cause headaches, including migraines.
72. Sugar plays a role in pancreatic cancer in women.
73. Sugar can adversely affect children’s grades in school.
74. Sugar can cause depression.
75. Sugar increases the risk of gastric cancer.
76. Sugar can cause dyspepsia (indigestion).
77. Sugar can increase the risk of developing gout.
78. Sugar can increase the levels of glucose in the blood much higher than complex carbohydrates in a glucose tolerance test can.
79. Sugar reduces learning capacity.
80. Sugar can cause two blood proteins – albumin and lipoproteins – to function less effectively, which may reduce the body’s ability to handle fat and cholesterol.
81. Sugar can contribute to Alzheimer’s disease.
82. Sugar can cause platelet adhesiveness, which causes blood clots.
83. Sugar can cause hormonal imbalance – some hormones become underactive and others become overactive.
84. Sugar can lead to the formation of kidney stones.
85. Sugar can cause free radicals and oxidative stress.
86. Sugar can lead to biliary tract cancer.
87. Sugar increases the risk of pregnant adolescents delivering a small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infant.
88. Sugar can lead to a substantial decrease the in the length of pregnancy among adolescents.
89. Sugar slows food’s travel time through the gastrointestinal tract.
90. Sugar increases the concentration of bile acids in stool and bacterial enzymes in the colon, which can modify bile to produce cancer-causing compounds and colon cancer.
91. Sugar increases estradiol (the most potent form of naturally occurring estrogen) in men.
92. Sugar combines with and destroys phosphatase, a digestive enzyme, which makes digestion more difficult.
93. Sugar can be a risk factor for gallbladder cancer.
94. Sugar is an addictive substance.
95. Sugar can be intoxicating, similar to alcohol.
96. Sugar can aggravate premenstrual syndrome (PMS).
97. Sugar can decrease emotional stability.
98. Sugar promotes excessive food intake in obese people.
99. Sugar can worsen the symptoms of children with attention deficit disorder (ADD).
- Sugar can slow the ability of the adrenal glands to function.
- Sugar can cut off oxygen to the brain when given to people intravenously.
- Sugar is a risk factor for lung cancer.
- Sugar increases the risk of polio.
- Sugar can cause epileptic seizures.
- Sugar can increase systolic blood pressure (pressure when the heart is contracting).
- Sugar can induce cell death.
- Sugar can increase the amount of food that you eat.
- Sugar can cause antisocial behavior in juvenile delinquents.
- Sugar can lead to prostate cancer.
- Sugar dehydrates newborns.
- Sugar can cause women to give birth to babies with low birth weight.
- Sugar is associated with a worse outcome of schizophrenia.
- Sugar can raise homocysteine levels in the bloodstream.
- Sugar increases the risk of breast cancer.
- Sugar is a risk factor in small intestine cancer.
- Sugar can cause laryngeal cancer.
- Sugar induces salt and water retention.
- Sugar can contribute to mild memory loss.
- Sugar water, when given to children shortly after birth, results in those children preferring sugar water to regular water throughout childhood.
- Sugar causes constipation.
- Sugar can cause brain decay in pre-diabetic and diabetic women.
- Sugar can increase the risk of stomach cancer.
- Sugar can cause metabolic syndrome.
- Sugar increases neural tube defects in embryos when it is consumed by pregnant women.
- Sugar can cause asthma.
- Sugar increases the chances of getting irritable bowl syndrome.
- Sugar can affect central reward systems.
- Sugar can cause cancer of the rectum.
- Sugar can cause endometrial cancer.
- Sugar can cause renal (kidney) cell cancer.
- Sugar can cause liver tumors.
- Sugar can increase inflammatory markers in the bloodstreams of overweight people.
- Sugar plays a role in the cause and the continuation of acne.
- Sugar can ruin the sex life of both men and women by turning off the gene that controls the sex hormones.
- Sugar can cause fatigue, moodiness, nervousness, and depression.
- Sugar can make many essential nutrients less available to cells.
- Sugar can increase uric acid in blood.
- Sugar can lead to higher C-peptide concentrations.
- Sugar causes inflammation.
- Sugar can cause diverticulitis, a small bulging sac pushing outward from the colon wall that is inflamed.
- Sugar can decrease testosterone production.
- Sugar impairs spatial memory.
- Sugar can cause cataracts.
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Dear Nancy Appleton,
Thank you very much for the information about 143 Reasons Sugar Ruins Your Health. I find it hard to believe. I am on the side that everything in moderate way is good for and too much is bad. But I grew up in a farm and grandmother used to make our on sugar from sugar cane and we were all very healthy with no doubts. We use sugar around the house for everything. If I can’t sleep, I warm milk with sugar will do it. If I am nervous water with sugar will do it. If I want to make sure my teeth are clean the cane alone will clean it and even for my headache a strong coffee with sugar eliminates it. So I have to disagree that sugar ruins your health. Today I am 38 with perfect teeth, perfect skin and body and I never paid attention to what they say about food, because I don’t believe it will kill, but the way you live your live will such as stress, bad habits, smoke too much, drink too much, but food and sugar? I don’t think so. We also have a cure for guys success in bed which is sugar cane hard candy made from sugar cane extract and it is excellent for it. Maybe you are referring to artificial sugar (sweetener) cane and GM sugar cane if so you should make yourself clear.
You are the exception that proves the rule. Some people handle sugar quite well for a long time. Most don’t. You are 38 and doing well, good for you, how will you feel at 60? Neither of us knows, but our point is that if you take care of yourself by cutting back as much as possible your sugar intake now you won’t have to find out.
The citations that justify our statements come from journal articles listed on US government databases and with one exception neither the doctor nor myself had anything to do with the research that time and time shows that people who eat sugar bear more health risks. We are not making this up. I would also point out to you that in 2009 the American Heart Association revised its dietary standards concerning sugar downward to 9 teaspoons a day for men and 6 teaspoons for women. You may choose to interpret this action as either sugar is good for you in moderation as your post suggests or as an interim step towards a recommendation against all refined sugars that can’t be made now because of how much money Big Sugar spends to protect the business. Time will tell what this action means. However, comparing the amounts in the new dietary limits to how much sugar is in our food would suggest the latter because both limits are less than a full 12-ounce Coke per day. And we covered this in an article that is somewhere in the middle of the pile so you would have to scroll down to see it.
So thank you for your comments.
G.N. Jacobs for Nancy Appleton
Dear Nancy,
Thank you for the information on how sugar ruins your health, i am using it in a presentation at a local community center that i go to, on July 25th and am looking forward to hearing some of the reactions when my audience reads some of the affects that sugar can have on health…I know i was surprised reading some of your information
In response to “how will you feel at 60″… I will tell you .. I am 63 and work out, am a vegan… but taking in way too much sugar… had heart burn , and many other not good health things… hypertension being one… cut out sugar a couple of months ago and it has been very difficult to say the least… it’s as though my body is remaking itself and the process is uncomfortable and sometimes very scary…. I don’t have sugar or any thing like it in anything I eat or drink… and no white flour… this is really intense… but sometimes I get a glimmer or what it is like to be truly healthy … when I notice my energy level is coming back … this is a long process… but it took me a long time to get to this low place…
Amy amy@amysart.net
Yes agreed. I think too much sugar is bad for our body, but I don’t agree with government database and especially coming from them. They wants us to believe that because it is cheaper for them having artificial sugar such as sweetener than ordering the sugar cane from South America. They would save a lot money and I agree that they should save money I also would agree with them if they use corn sugar as a substitute. That is a tombs up for me and not disrespecting you, no because I agree with and I want to make it clear. Too much sugar, too much salt, too much of everything is bad for you, I am just worried about how sweeteners which is developed in laboratory can be good for you rather than natural product coming from mother nature. I don’t like soft drinks, I cook my own food even if I don’t have time. I try as much as I can to not use this type of products even microwave and vitamin pills because they are bad for you and for age we all come with an expiration date whether it is 10, 30, 60 or even 100 years we all going to expire I don’t worry about that because I take it as part of life rather than fight to prolong it. By the way for responding to my comment. I though anyone would care for that. I thought it very kind of your part spending your time responding to it. I am sincerely glad for your response and the article is really informative and I passed it to my friends as well. Thank you for this list. Unfortunately people have different ideas and I respect yours and mine as well.
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Here is another reason for avoiding sugar. Proportunately, consumers pay more for sugar than any other additive put into our food supply.
Also please email me any references that you have to the relationship of sugar and Alzheimer’s. I have learned that Alzheimer’s is now sometimes being referred to as “type three diabetes”. The information that I have is meager and I would like any additional information that is available. Thanks.
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i was reading in your 76 version, and noticed it didn’t mention high sugar diets as a catalyst for fungal growth.
Various mycosis external, and eventually internal, eventually systemic, have accelerated their march thru society in the past 100 years.
The effect of released fungal toxins, and damaged cells by fungus, are something to be taken seriously.
Have you studied this correlation much?
The doctor is a generalist about sugar. She is aware of sugar and fungal growth, but even she has drawn from the work of others. She recommends looking up Candida Albicans. She has mostly drawn from Dr William Crook (The Yeast Connection) and a few others.
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Several of these are repeats, but the list is very impressive. It is helping me to desire more earnestly to rid my life of as much of this ingredient as possible. Thanks.
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Enjoyed your article. Dr. Ann De Wees Allen with the Glycemic Research Institute has studied sweeteners for years. You might find her research concerning the cephalic response interesting. She has determined that “when children drink sodas it is more addictive than smoking a crack pipe”. Artificial sweeteners are 600 times sweeter. The brain knows natural substances. She has developed a BSweet Sweetener from fruit that will not spike the blood sugar or make you store fat. You might want to check it out. I’m sure there will be sports drinks developed that won’t have the HFCS in it. She already works with the Major League Baseball Assoc. drinking her ARGMatrix the only Arginine safe to take long term. http://www.3kings.bfreesystem.com or http://www.dietingblogsite.com
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Dear Nancy,
Thank you for the great info shared in the articles published on your web site. Considering the modern metabolic syndrome (obesity) pandemic- your research could make a drastic change in the way how people think, cook, or live. With your permission and of course by using citation of your name and title, I plan to publish an article for common good of people suffering of the Deadly Quartet (metabolic syndrome) and its outcomes.
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I have just finished the book – Suicide by Sugar and although had stopped eating sugar as much possible because of Ovarian Cancer, I learnt so much more, and will continur to do so – thank you
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I was addicted to sugar big-time. It took a 12-step program to give me strength to say no to all sugar. What freedom!
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Folks have a hard time accepting that sugar should be removed from their diet,( I am Paleo all the way) but even if someone didn’t choose Paleo, and just removed sugar, they would feel such a difference…now I have proof!..thank you, Nancy!
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Hello,
I have a story to share with you, a story of defeat and victory in an unknown 20 year battle with sugar, my worst enemy. I hope that you will read this. When I was in 8th grade I began to have some very painful and uncomfortable digestive issues. It lasted about 2 weeks, then it was gone. However, it returned a year later and didn’t go away until 20 years later when I figured out myself what the problem was. During my entire teen-age and young adult years I was completely controlled by this mysterious problem. I had a Lower GI and Upper GI tests when I was younger, before IBS was a diagnosis, and I was told nothing was wrong. I had several doctors give me the classic “you have IBS” nonsense diagnosis, but I knew that there was something more going on, I just couldn’t get anyone to believe me. My symptoms are very simple: I eat a meal (a normal dinner or lunch type meal) and within 30-60 minutes I have painful diarrhea, and then within 15 minutes after the first episode I would have diarrhea again. Always twice, never 3 times, never once, always twice. During these bathroom adventures, all of my meal that I just ate goes right through me and in the toilet, undigested and completely recognizable. Sorry, I know it’s gross, and most people think I am mistaken and that it’s impossible for food to pass undigested, but it’s true. This pattern went on for about 20 years, because of this problem I had to dropped out of school, missed out on so many travel adventures with friends, lost jobs and so on. Throughout the years I would try to “fix” it myself by eliminating foods. So, I would eat a pizza (for example) and afterwards I would have my duel bathroom episodes. My common sense tells me that something in the pizza made me sick. I did this “eliminate food” thing throughout these 20 years with every type of food that made me sick. The only thing that I could eat and never feel sick afterwards was junk food. So what did I do?? I turned into the biggest junk food freak on the planet!! I was eating donuts in the morning, cookies after lunch, 1 lb of double bubble gum each day, candy bars throughout the day, always dessert and ice cream daily too. I fortunately do not gain weight at all, I am lucky there! Never never never did I have the sick diarrhea symptoms after eating this sugary food. So I just believed that it was the only thing I could eat and not feel ill. However, one day in 2006 I decided to stop cold. So I did right then. And within a couple weeks I felt like a new person, my bowel movements were “normal” which only happened a couple times a year for me, now it was every time. I was still eating ice cream and the 1 lb of bubble gum though. That’s the mystery, why did the other junk stop my issues but I could still have ice cream and a suicidal quantity of bubble gum??? Now, these days, I don’t eat any sugar at all, except fruits or honey, natural sugars. I figure if it ruined much of the great years of my life then I will not have it anymore at all, period. I wonder what else sugar does to all the other people that eat it. I met someone with the same problem and he said his doctor actually knew what was going on. She described it as a spastic colon and gave him some pills. She also said “no more sugar” and that’s when I knew that his problem is what I had too. I don’t know what it is that I have wrong with me but I do know that I am in control of it and I conquered it all on my own. My life is totally different now and I am so thankful each day that I quit eating sugar.
Oh, and for all those people out there that say “I have to eat my chocolate” or think they can’t quit sugar, that’s all choice and nothing more. I was the biggest addict anyone has ever seen and I quit. Sure I craved it for a couple weeks, but after that it started to look and smell nasty to me.
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Since I’ve put sugar out of my diet 22 months ago, I’ve lost 145 pounds.
I cut out all wheat products and most starches.
I tell how on my blog.
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Thanks for the illuminating post Nancy!
What about Stevia?
ACTUALLY THERE ARE SO-CALLED GOOD SUGARS LIKE GOOD FATS
Sure if you mean the naturally occurring sugar in whole fruit and vegetables moderated by Dietary Fiber (inedible structural sugar). Otherwise, no sugar derived from any source with the fiber removed is ever going to be good for you.
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After putting sweeteners and wheat out of my diet 26 months ago I have lost 155 pounds and all the health problems that went along with the weight. I feel great. Keeping the weight off going on 3 years now. Thanks for the information on the dangers of sugar. I tell my story on my blog.
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