During this time a year it isn’t easy to avoid foods that are high in sugar. Here’s a little info to help you stop indulging:
- Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in the body
- Sugar reduces high-density lipoproteins
- Sugar interfers with absorption of calcium and magnesium
- Sugar raises the level of neurotransmitters: dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine
- Sugar is enemy#1 of the bowl movement
- Diets high in sugar can cause free radicals and oxidative stress
- Sugar feeds cancer
- Sugar slows food’s travel time through the gastrointestinal tract
- Sugar is an addictive substance
- The body changes sugar into 2 to 5 times more fat in the blood stream than it does starch
