How Sugar Can Destroy Your Health (Part 1)
How Sugar Can Destroy Your Health and Cause Cancer, Diabetes, Neurological Disease and Vitamin/Mineral Deficiencies (Part 1)
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A big problem with a typical American’s diet is sugar. Sugar in all forms — except in its natural state in fruits and vegetables — should be avoided because:
1) It extremely weakens the immune system increasing the chances of developing cancer.
2) It depletes the body of valuable B vitamins.
3) It depletes the body of necessary minerals such as calcium, magnesium, etc.
4) Excesses lead to sugar diabetes, one of the top fatal diseases in the United States.
5) It causes weight gain and stress on the whole system, especially the heart.
Let’s take a closer look at each of these points.
1) Sugar weakens the immune system.
Sugar puts stress on the immune system. Animal studies show that such stress results in a decrease in white blood cells (WBCs), which prevent bacterial, viral, parasitic and fungal infections, and cancer.
Our immune system’s most important fighters are WBCs, which prevent us from getting cancer. We all have cancerous cells developing in our bodies, but a healthy immune system — with macrophages (Pac-Man WBCs) and natural killer cells — keeps cancer in check. But in today’s toxic world, we are exposed to many cancer-producing agents from the outside, which weaken our white blood cells from the inside, a bad formula indeed.
In one study, three groups of mice were injected with an aggressive malignant mammary tumor. Prior to injection the dietary induced blood sugar was altered to three different levels; high blood sugar, normal blood sugar and lower blood sugar. After 70 days 66% of the high blood sugar group had died, 33% of the normal blood sugar had died and only 5% of the lowered blood sugar group had died.25 This demonstrates that the less sugar in our system the more cancer and pathogen protective we become.
Remember this: Greater Toxic Load + Weakened Immune System (WBCs) = Disease (especially cancer)
Your motto in detoxifying is, “Get the bad (toxins/chemicals) out of the system and get the good in,” such as nutrients, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, antioxidants and phytochemicals.
A 12-ounce can of regular pop can reduce the ability of WBCs to eat bacteria by 40 percent for up to six hours. That means that if you drink pop and eat other sugars, your body’s defenses are down. If someone sneezes around you, or you rub your eyes or mouth with your hands, you’re highly susceptible to contract the bacteria or virus. Similarly, cancer starts to grow when WBCs are being suppressed with sugar, other dietary factors, stress, etc.