45 Ways Sugar can Ruin your Health

If like me you have a sweet tooth and at the same time you care about your health, you will want to know about the facts below.

Around the globe, more and more people are addicted to sugar. Why? Because we start too young to consume too much sugar. Like a drug, sugar is addictive, both physically and mentally. When we eat sugar, something happens in our brain the same way that if we would consume illegal drugs. Our brain produces more natural opioids. These are hormones that can help relieve pain. It is hard to escape this addiction because sugar is everywhere, even where it is not expected to be found. If no one is surprised that soda and other chocolate bars contain it, it is more puzzling to know that sugar is very often added in salty preparations such as canned items, tomato sauces, or industrial juices.

Among all the ways sugar can “ruin your health here are 45 that I found

(if you know any more ways please leave a comment below, I’ll add them to the list):

Decrease in emotional stability
Makes adrenaline rise quickly
Increase anxiety
Feeds cancer cells
Vitamin E levels lowered
Makes magnesium, protein and calcium less well absorbed
Intoxicate and can be addictive like a drug or alcohol
Can bring hyperactivity
Decreases good cholestérol levels
Body changes sugar into two to five times more fat in the bloodstream compared to starch
Can develop dizziness
Can bring obesity
Increases total cholesterol, and bad cholesterol levels
Can develop gastrointestinal tract problems
Leads to difficulty in concentration
Results in decreased activity in adults and children especially
Can lead to antisocial behavior
Increases fasting levels of glucose
Leads to the formation of kidney stones and gallstones
Leads to crankiness in children
Can lead to depression
Reduces learning capacity and can cause learning disorders that could affect schoolchildren’s grades
Can induce cell death
Increases systolic blood pressure
Increases risk of toxemia in pregnancy
Decreases insulin sensitivity, leading to high insulin levels and eventually diabetes
Makes the Skin age faster
Can lead to headaches, including migraines
Can develop food allergies
Increase acidity in saliva
Increase risks of tooth decay
Can lead to contraction of appendicitis, hemorrhoids, and varicose veins
Can lead to autoimmune diseases like arthritis, asthma, and multiple sclerosis
Increases risk of gout and Alzheimer’s disease
Contributes to eczema in children
Contributes to osteoporosis
Greatly promotes uncontrolled growth of Candida Albicans (yeast infections)
Increases risk of Parkinson’s disease
Promotes loss of tissue elasticity and function
Can lead to weaker eyesight
Makes acne symptoms worse
Can change collagen structure
Can lead to suppression of immune system, increasing the risk of contracting infectious diseases
Increases risk of polio
Can Brittle tendons

But don’t remove all sugar from your diet

To meet your energy needs, the body needs a sugar called glucose.
It is not the “classic” white sugar that after refining loses vitamins and minerals essential to health.

For the body to function properly, the blood glucose (= glucose level) should vary between 0.80 and 1.10 grams per liter of fasting blood, and between 1 and 1.40 grams within 2 hours after a meal.

For all those who wish or need to control their sugar consumption, it is important to know that there are different alternatives to white sugar with variable glycemic index, that is to say, more or less influencing blood sugar.

How to decrease your consumption of sugar and what are the alternatives?

Increase your intake of vegetables and especially whole grains (bread, pasta, cookies, etc.), in order to reconnect with complex carbohydrates.
In the case of a sugar craving, you can eat (with moderation) dried fruits, which contain treasures of minerals and vitamins or a little honey, maple syrup or agave syrup. Stevia can also be a good sugar substitute. Of course, eating fruits is the best option. Did you know that fruits and seeds constituted the original diet God gave to men? “And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.” – Genesis 1:29. You can learn about it more in details and why it is important to us today, in my book “The Bible Diet”.
If you really want to use sugar, use the whole brown sugar because it has retained its vitamins and minerals.
Also, consider physical exercise. It is sovereign to less stress and put your body, as well as your mental, in shape.
Look at the nutritional facts behind the items that you buy at the supermarket to see how much sugar they contain (and absolutely avoid high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) which is considered to be deadly because of the health risks that can it can cause).
Cook your own food as much as you can.

Ask God to help you, He will!

Like in every battles in life, sugar addiction can be a tough battle to fight by ourselves. God can and will help if you ask Him to! I personally had a sugar addiction, and even if I still have a sweet tooth, the way I eat is totally different than before. I don’t crave certain food anymore (I even dislike those foods now) and I now eat healthier sweets. But I could not have done this by myself. Before becoming a Christian, I tried many ways to change my eating habits but all failed. God is our helper, He can change all the bad things in our life if we ask Him and acknowledge Him as our God. The Bible says:

“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me” – Philippians 4:13
“All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out” – John 6:37
“And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible” – Mark 10:27
“Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness” – Isaiah 41:10
“And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people” – Matthew 4:23
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” – John 8:32
“He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor punished us according to our iniquities. For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward those who fear Him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us” – Psalm 103:10-12
“Come now, and let us reason together,” says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” – Isaiah 1:18
“I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; and I will not remember your sins” – Isaiah 43:25
“It was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations” – Luke 24:46-47

And always remember that Jesus cares about us and want us to do in happy and in better health “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth” – 3 John 1:2. And remember that for every truth of God, Satan has a counterfeit and he tries to make what is bad look good and what is good look bad. The devil wants us to believe that we can be free by disobeying God’s health laws and that we can do everything with, or put everything in our bodies, but as it is written in John 8:44 “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar and the father of it”.

I hope that this article helps or if you have any questions, leave a comment below. I’m always pleased to answer anyone… even bad comments 😉