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Sugar Addiction and High Fructose Sugar
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Do you have an unrequited love affair with a little sweet thing called sugar? You are not alone. Newborns show a distinct preference for sweet beverages as early as 24 hours after birth. The average person ingests nearly one fourth of all their daily calories from some form of sugar. By the time we reach adulthood people are consuming over 150 pounds of sugar in some form or another per person each year.
More than ever, kids are getting addicted to the sugary sweet substance that is instrumental in compromising their health. Sugar, in one of it's many forms, is in nearly all processed foods and is used to sell almost everything from soup to salad dressing.
Even people in mainstream healthcare are looking at the effects of sugar and overall health. Your long term health will be adversly affected by sugar in many ways. First there is the problem of obeisity. Then the obvious dental issues as well as diabetes and hypertension.
Even the US Government has been warning us since the early 1980's NOT to consume more than 25% of our daily calories in the form of sugar. If your do you are putting yourself at risk of serious health problems like cardiovascular disease, poor immune response, osteoporosis or diabetes. In fact most diseases are related to poor diet. A key factor in the malnutrition of America is due to excess sugar consumption.
If you want to live healthy and disease free you must strive to control your blood sugar levels on a regular basis.
Not all sugar is bad for you. In reality your body need glucose to function and produce energy. Your body gets plenty of sugar from a diet rich in vegetables, whole grains and legumes. You do not need to eat fruit to get enough sugar to ensure healthy blood sugar levels.
Why do so many people choose to eat so much sugar when it is clealy not good for them? Many factors influence our love affair with sugar. It is a socailly acceptable drug of choice for many people.
Don't believe me? Sugar creates strong cravings and withdrawl symptoms. These cravings are often a physical response to the excess of candida albicans in your body. Candida can gain a foothold in your body when your internal bacteria and flora are upset. This can be due to taking antibiotics (which kill off both good and bad bacteria) or eating a whole lot of sugar. Without knowing it - you could be living with a very hungry yeast called candida.
Due to the poor nutritional quality of the most common foods in the american diet, our bodies are even more prone to the effects of sugar overload. In order to try and combat this massive nutritional deficiency, many people take a multitude of vitamin and mineral supplements every day.
In my experience, the very best suppliment is a supergreen food in powder form. This provides whole food nutrition that are dense with super nutrition. I can highly recommend a superfood energy drink every day to help stablize your blood sugar levels. You will notice an immediate energy boost with a good super green food – super energy without caffeine or stimulants!
Another problem is that there are hidden sugars in many foods - even ones you wouldn't think need sugar. Nearly all processed foods contain high fructose corn syrup. Check your labels and you will notice that this is a common ingredient in almost every prepackaged food out there.
Most soft drinks are sweetened with high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). HFCS is a major contributor to obesity. It is in such widespread use today because it is actually cheaper to make than sugar and nearly 20 times sweeter than regular sugar. HFCS is now used to sweeten everything from baked goods to gum, cookies, jelly and even dairy products. If you drink soft drinks consider that you are ingesting 4-5 teaspoons of sugar in each drink. About 65% or more of our daily intake of high fructose corn syrup comes in the form of drinks - even the so called healthy ones, like energy drinks, herbal teas and flavored waters.
Unlike straight glucose, -which our bodies can use- these high fructose corn syrups converts more easily into fat and cholesterol. They are also known to increase triglycerides in our blood profiles.
In a twelve week study at the University of Minnesota, test subjects were placed on two diets. They were given a specific diet for six weeks each. The only difference being the first 6 weeks used glucose and the second six weeks used fructose as the sweetener. In the second six weeks the male subjects triglyceride levels increased by 32%. Sugar consumption in the form of glucose signals our pancreas to secrete insulin, helping our brains to tell us to stop eating. However, high fructose corn syrup does not signal insulin to be secreted.This is one of the primary reasons that high fructose corn syrup can be attributed to such a dramatic increase in obesity and diabetes.
You can avoid the dangers of sugar poisoning and additciton by adopting a diet high in nutrient dense foods. Eat foods with whole grains, fresh vegetables and legumes. In addition, give your body super nutrition in the form of a supergreen energy drink each day. I heartily recommend http://www.enerfood.com super green food. I have literally tried everything on the market and can honestly say this one does taste better and it certainly gives an energy boost! Avoid highly processed and refined foods, especially foods containing high fructose corn syrup. Replace soft drinks with delicious fresh filtered water. If you crave something sweet, try adding pure fruit juice to your water.
More than ever, kids are getting addicted to the sugary sweet substance that is instrumental in compromising their health. Sugar, in one of it's many forms, is in nearly all processed foods and is used to sell almost everything from soup to salad dressing.
Even people in mainstream healthcare are looking at the effects of sugar and overall health. Your long term health will be adversly affected by sugar in many ways. First there is the problem of obeisity. Then the obvious dental issues as well as diabetes and hypertension.
Even the US Government has been warning us since the early 1980's NOT to consume more than 25% of our daily calories in the form of sugar. If your do you are putting yourself at risk of serious health problems like cardiovascular disease, poor immune response, osteoporosis or diabetes. In fact most diseases are related to poor diet. A key factor in the malnutrition of America is due to excess sugar consumption.
If you want to live healthy and disease free you must strive to control your blood sugar levels on a regular basis.
Not all sugar is bad for you. In reality your body need glucose to function and produce energy. Your body gets plenty of sugar from a diet rich in vegetables, whole grains and legumes. You do not need to eat fruit to get enough sugar to ensure healthy blood sugar levels.
Why do so many people choose to eat so much sugar when it is clealy not good for them? Many factors influence our love affair with sugar. It is a socailly acceptable drug of choice for many people.
Don't believe me? Sugar creates strong cravings and withdrawl symptoms. These cravings are often a physical response to the excess of candida albicans in your body. Candida can gain a foothold in your body when your internal bacteria and flora are upset. This can be due to taking antibiotics (which kill off both good and bad bacteria) or eating a whole lot of sugar. Without knowing it - you could be living with a very hungry yeast called candida.
Due to the poor nutritional quality of the most common foods in the american diet, our bodies are even more prone to the effects of sugar overload. In order to try and combat this massive nutritional deficiency, many people take a multitude of vitamin and mineral supplements every day.
In my experience, the very best suppliment is a supergreen food in powder form. This provides whole food nutrition that are dense with super nutrition. I can highly recommend a superfood energy drink every day to help stablize your blood sugar levels. You will notice an immediate energy boost with a good super green food – super energy without caffeine or stimulants!
Another problem is that there are hidden sugars in many foods - even ones you wouldn't think need sugar. Nearly all processed foods contain high fructose corn syrup. Check your labels and you will notice that this is a common ingredient in almost every prepackaged food out there.
Most soft drinks are sweetened with high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). HFCS is a major contributor to obesity. It is in such widespread use today because it is actually cheaper to make than sugar and nearly 20 times sweeter than regular sugar. HFCS is now used to sweeten everything from baked goods to gum, cookies, jelly and even dairy products. If you drink soft drinks consider that you are ingesting 4-5 teaspoons of sugar in each drink. About 65% or more of our daily intake of high fructose corn syrup comes in the form of drinks - even the so called healthy ones, like energy drinks, herbal teas and flavored waters.
Unlike straight glucose, -which our bodies can use- these high fructose corn syrups converts more easily into fat and cholesterol. They are also known to increase triglycerides in our blood profiles.
In a twelve week study at the University of Minnesota, test subjects were placed on two diets. They were given a specific diet for six weeks each. The only difference being the first 6 weeks used glucose and the second six weeks used fructose as the sweetener. In the second six weeks the male subjects triglyceride levels increased by 32%. Sugar consumption in the form of glucose signals our pancreas to secrete insulin, helping our brains to tell us to stop eating. However, high fructose corn syrup does not signal insulin to be secreted.This is one of the primary reasons that high fructose corn syrup can be attributed to such a dramatic increase in obesity and diabetes.
You can avoid the dangers of sugar poisoning and additciton by adopting a diet high in nutrient dense foods. Eat foods with whole grains, fresh vegetables and legumes. In addition, give your body super nutrition in the form of a supergreen energy drink each day. I heartily recommend http://www.enerfood.com super green food. I have literally tried everything on the market and can honestly say this one does taste better and it certainly gives an energy boost! Avoid highly processed and refined foods, especially foods containing high fructose corn syrup. Replace soft drinks with delicious fresh filtered water. If you crave something sweet, try adding pure fruit juice to your water.
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Nov 26, 2009
When I was a kid, I used to complain a lot to my mom about not being able to eat more sugar. I would try to point out to her that sugar was important...all that. She set me straight pretty quickly about the types of sugar and sources of sugar. She was always telling us that we had to get our sugar highs from fruits and vegetables...and other (digested) sugars from things like our whole-grain bread.
Still, when I was in highschool and more independent I did develop a pretty bad addiction to soda. I expect it was a combination of the caffeine and HFCS. My body craved the "high" I got from the two of them and it became hard for me to function without a can or two every day. My mom wasn't pleased but she figured she couldn't stop me and I'd have to make my own decisions.
I've given it up now as much as possible. However, here's a story that's made me start looking for it EVERYWHERE, not just on foods I think might be bad for me.
I was buying some English muffins for breakfast, the classic kind, and I grab a bag/box of the whole wheat ones. On the front, it says "Now without high fructose corn syrup." I was blown away.
I could imagine it in something like a blueberry muffin, but not in an English muffin...which is so much more like bread.