The Truth About Sugar

Quit Sugar - Reclaim Your Freedom

Oswaldo Koch, MBA, PMP, P.Eng. / Fitness Trainer - Martial Arts Instructor

Eating sugar significantly raises your risk of life-shortening obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Reducing sugar intake is the best way to prevent acidity that damage your bones, tooth, brain and internal organs.

You don’t have to lose your teeth, but if you do, don’t blame nature, largely the cause is your sweet tooth. Refined sugar produces a continuously over acid condition in our bodies. As a result of high pH levels:

  • Minerals are taken from our bones and teeth to rectify the imbalance.
  • Lack of minerals lead to decay and general weakening of bones and teeth.
  • High acidity causes arthritis, osteoporosis, obesity and cancer.
  • Skin loses elasticity and vitality from prolonged acidity.
  • Teeth and gums are ruin prematurely.

Candy bars are high in sugar and artificial ingredients, and have negative effects on your health.

5 reasons to avoid refined sugar

Our bodies strive to maintain a delicate balance of optimal pH and are constantly at war with outside influences that alter that pH Unfortunately, refined sugar is addictive and most people consume about 75 pounds of sugar per person per year - nearly twice the limit based on a 2,000-calorie diet, which:

  • Raises uric acid levels in the blood which creates inflammation in the joints.
  • Increases our risk of depression, impaired memory and dementia.
  • Leads to hyperglycemia (high blood sugar).
  • Linked to diabetes, obesity and cancer.
  • Cause tooth decay - bacteria feed on sugar and release acids than cause cavities.

Sugar spikes insulin levels, which signals the body to store belly fat.

The effects of sugar on insulin

Insulin is a hormone made by the pancreas that allows our bodies to use sugar (glucose) from carbohydrates in the food that we eat for energy or to store glucose for future use. Insulin helps to keep our blood sugar level from getting too high (hyperglycemia) or too low (hypoglycemia), and the effects are:.

  • Insulin allows for glucose to enter our cells for the cells to burn the glucose instead of fat.
  • If too much glucose is in the blood, it can become toxic, resulting in disease.
  • Due to sugar overload, insulin does not work properly, and cells become "resistant" to it.
  • Sugar causes the pancreas to produce too much insulin, resulting in chronically elevated blood sugar levels.
  • As a result of insulin resistance, the pancreas can't produce enough to keep our blood sugar levels down. This condition is known as Type II Diabetes.

Fast-food ingredients contain a shocking amount of sugar.

The effects of sugar on our internal organs

Refined sugar is devoid of nutrients and it affects the function of our vital organs, such as:

  • Sugar causes the pancreas secretes more insulin.
  • Excess insulin causes cells in the body to absorb too much glucose.
  • Too much glucose leads to fatty liver and this can progress to cirrhosis of the liver.
  • Too much sugar can cause kidneys damage and blood sugar swings.
  • Refine sugars increase the risk of obesity, nerve damage, vision problems, strokes and heart diseases.

Sugar causes minerals deficiency, which affects vital organs and joins.

Sugar's bitter history

The history of sugar production is not complete without mentioning slavery. Sugar is the legacy of millions of African slaves that grew, cut, crushed and refined sugar for increasing demand from European markets. Because of our sweet tooth, since the 18th century, sugar has been one of the most demanded commodities in the world with negative effects such as:

  • Sugar has a barbaric history as the 'white gold' that fueled slavery.
  • Sugar drove trade in goods and people and, fueled the wealth of European nations.
  • Countless indigenous lives were destroyed and nearly 11 million Africans were enslaved.
  • Sugar was once used as a medicine but now is one of our most threatening killers.
  • As sugar consumption has increased globally, so too has increased obesity, cancer, diabetes, heart diseases, chronic inflammation in the joints, and depression from premature aging.

The next time you’re staring down a plate of sugary treats, remember the bitter history of sugar.
Slavery once existed and is still in existence in our passion for sweets and junk foods.

Break free from sugar - Reclaim your freedom!

Despite the fact the we have being brainwashed into thinking that sweets and sugar drinks make us feel good—is what makes us overweight and age prematurely. One fact should be beyond dispute: being addicted to sugar is not an emotional eating disorder, it’s a biological disorder caused by bad eating habits. Sugar cravings are driven by hormones and neurotransmitters that fuel sugar addiction, leading to chronic diseases and huge changes in the brain.

Making sudden, radical changes to bad eating habits such as stop eating sugar, can lead to short term good results - weight loss, improved vision, and more energy. However, such radical changes won’t be successful in the long run. Permanently improving our eating habits requires a thoughtful plan in which we gradually replace junk foods with healthy foods, and reinforce new eating habits with the awareness of the daily benefits we achieve.

Although many of our eating habits were established during childhood, it does not mean it is too late to change them. We can break bad habits in 100 days following The Core Challenge daily routine.

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