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mckitterick) wrote2011-04-19 01:40 pm
mckitterick) wrote2011-04-19 01:40 pm
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Is Sugar Toxic?
First, read this NYT article on why sugar is so dangerous to your health. I'll wait.
I stopped eating refined sugars a year ago, and within two weeks I lost 10 pounds. I also started feeling healthier almost right away. This is why: Not only does sugar (cane, corn, you name it - refined sugar) make us fat, but it also causes insulin resistance. This makes it a primary cause for diabetes and metabolic syndrome. That means sugar causes heart disease. Worse yet, because of all these effects, it promotes cancer.
There's a terrifying thought, considering that it's in almost every prepared food you find in the grocery store.
Click the image to see the NYT article.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to give up refined sugar for one month. See how much your body responds.
Starting today, I'm giving up on diet soda, as well. Why? One's body sees the artificial sweetener and produces insulin in response... so the most dangerous aspect of sugar - that it promotes these diseases - can't be avoided by using artificial sweeteners in place of sugar. I've been noticing soreness in my guts, what appears from all symptoms to be a gall-bladder issue. Therefore, my body is responding to diet soda by producing insulin and increasing my triglycerides (blood fat) from artifical sweetneners.
*sigh*
I'll report in a month on how that's going. I hope to hear from YOU, too!
Good luck.
Chris
I stopped eating refined sugars a year ago, and within two weeks I lost 10 pounds. I also started feeling healthier almost right away. This is why: Not only does sugar (cane, corn, you name it - refined sugar) make us fat, but it also causes insulin resistance. This makes it a primary cause for diabetes and metabolic syndrome. That means sugar causes heart disease. Worse yet, because of all these effects, it promotes cancer.
There's a terrifying thought, considering that it's in almost every prepared food you find in the grocery store.
Click the image to see the NYT article.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to give up refined sugar for one month. See how much your body responds.
Starting today, I'm giving up on diet soda, as well. Why? One's body sees the artificial sweetener and produces insulin in response... so the most dangerous aspect of sugar - that it promotes these diseases - can't be avoided by using artificial sweeteners in place of sugar. I've been noticing soreness in my guts, what appears from all symptoms to be a gall-bladder issue. Therefore, my body is responding to diet soda by producing insulin and increasing my triglycerides (blood fat) from artifical sweetneners.
*sigh*
I'll report in a month on how that's going. I hope to hear from YOU, too!
Good luck.
Chris
First off, that's cool.
I'm a Type II Diabetic, they found out when I was brought home from the WTC incident, and had a CBC and a chest x-ray.
If you can, have an Hemoglobin A1C test done by your doctor, on a regular basis as well. That will give you an average of your blood glucose for a 3 month period. An alternative would be to monitor your blood glucose using a standard meter, or purchasing a home A1C test. Using the US standards, your blood glucose should produce an A1C of as close to 6 as possible. Doing the A1C means you're not subjecting yourself to the less precise and more frequent blood sugar tests that I do every morning, lunch, dinner, and bedtime.
--Hawk
Re: First off, that's cool.
Re: First off, that's cool.
The other advantage of having your doctor perform the tests is that he can also test for and monitor your cholesterol and tri-gycerides, that there is not a home test for, to my knowledge.
If you have questions, feel free to ping me.
EMT Hawk