Sugar and Artificial Sweeteners

Sugar and Artificial Sweeteners

Effects of Processed Sugar

Refined Sugar: We all know it. We all hate it. Sugar is an addictive drug that seems impossible to escape from in this day and age. Sugar has many names to disguise this white toxin including: dextrose, fructose, corn syrup, lactose and sucrose.

Foods that are high in sugar are causing a countless amount of health issues – most of which people are not connecting to their sugar intake. This toxin is causing issues such as

  • sugar-proccesseddepression
  • anxiety
  • weight gain
  • low sex drive
  • poor memory formation
  • learning disorders
  • ADHD
  • hormonal imbalances

The more sugar we eat, the more chronic disease and incredible mood swigs we experience.

 

“Fructose tricks your body into gaining weight by fooling your metabolism—it turns off your body’s appetite-control system. Fructose does not appropriately stimulate insulin, which in turn does not suppress ghrelin (the “hunger hormone”) and doesn’t stimulate leptin (the “satiety hormone”), which together result in you eating more and developing insulin resistance.” (source)

If you truly want to lose weight and transform your health, ditch the sugar, increase healthy fats and watch your body transform!

Sugar the Cause of Disease

“According to Dr. Johnson, sugar activates its own pathways in your body—those metabolic pathways become “upregulated.” In other words, the more sugar you eat, the more effective your body is in absorbing it; and the more you absorb, the more damage you’ll do.” (Source)

“Scientists from University College London (UCL) in the U.K. made this discovery after experimenting with a new cancer detection method that involves utilizing a unique form of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). After sensitizing an MRI scanner to look specifically for glucose in the body, it was revealed that cancer tumors, which feed off sugar, light up brightly as they contain high amounts of sugar.” (Source)

Hormones produced by the body in response to sugar consumption also feed cancer cells. So every time you indulge in processed sugar, your body produces certain chemicals that tell cancer cells to not only start taking up sugar, but also to grow in size and spread.

Artificial Sweeteners

artificial-sweetenersAs if sugar didn’t already plague our poor bodies with enough disease, then enters artificial sweeteners.

Aspartame, one of the most widely used artificial sweeteners has been linked to debilitating, life-threatening conditions people are now suffering from more than ever before in history.

Aspartame literally kills brain cells and attacks the body often leading to migraines, seizures, depression, brain cancer, insomnia, and obesity.

Unfortunately, this sweetener is highly addictive and found in common products such as gum, diet soda, and yogurt. Dr. Mercola states “one of the worst things you can put into your body, or feed to your family, is the artificial sweetener aspartame.”

Most people think if they buy sugar free ice cream or sugar free candy that it somehow magically makes it healthy. From now on, when you see ‘sugar free’ on a processed food think of a toxic chemical storm. One chemical that is used to flavor numerous ‘sugar free’ items is the same substance used in antifreeze.

diet-coke“A study begun at Northeastern Ohio University to determine whether aspartame was linked to depression had to be halted. Can you guess why?

Nearly a third of the test subjects in the depressive group dropped out due to the severity of their reactions to aspartame consumption. Two others left the study due to serious eye problems — one developed a detached retina that ultimately led to blindness, and the other experienced a bleeding conjunctiva of the eye.” (Source)

Cut the sugar and artificial sweeteners and your life will truly be changed forever!

 

 

 

Article References:

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/04/20/sugar-dangers.aspx

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/10/13/artificial-sweeteners-more-dangerous-than-you-ever-imagined.aspx

https://www.infowars.com/new-mri-research-reveals-cancer-cells-thrive-on-processed-sugar/

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