Health Information for a Long Healthy Life

Sugar and High Fructose Corn Syrup

Eating too much sugar can cause overweight, tooth decay, a rise in the triglyceride level in your bloodstream and an overall loss of nutritional health. Sugars are hidden in many foods, including canned soup, pork and beans and fruit juices. It is not known what effect eating too much sugar (more than about 10% of your daily caloric intake) may have on diabetes.

High fructose corn syrup, added to many processed foods, causes hormonal changes in the body that may not be reversible. It tricls the body into thinking that the levels of insulin and leptin are normal, so that you keep eating when you should feel full. How much sugar do you eat? the typical North American is eating about 20 teaspoons of sugar each day, in various forms. In this case it is best not to be typical.

Sugar and Salt ~ Villans of the healthy diet

Sugar and salt have had more negative impact on human health than any other substances ever introduced into our diets. If we were to suddenly eliminate these things from the diet we would see an immediate decrease in diabetes, heart disease, obesity, migraine headaches, arthritis, certain types of cancer, depression and numerous other maladies.

Try doing without sugar and salt in your diet for the next seven days. You may have withdrawal sysptoms for a day or two, but then you will notice benefits such as lessened pain and reduction of inflammation. Give it a try and see how you feel.

Just how bad is sugar for you?

Do we really need to eliminate sugar from our diets completely? There are many opinions about this subject, so you need to decide what is right for you.