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by Tom Chambers on December 4th, 2004

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Is sugar really detrimental to your health? What would eating too much of it do to you?

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  • by Jeremiah Britt on December 7th, 2004

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    Too much of anything is bad for you. People trying to pass urine tests have even been known to get water poisoning.

    Too much sugar, regularly, causes weight gain, diabetes, and speeds up tooth decay.

    Diabetes occurs when the body can't regulate its sugar and insulin levels. Muscles, heart, nerves and brain can be adversly effected by diabetes.

    Sugar can, in time, make you stupid.

    In moderation it is fine, but modern definitions of moderation have encompassed what used to be known as excess. Sugar occurs naturally in fruits and vegetables and adding bleached concentrates of the stuff is a bad habit we're unlikely to get out of. Artificial sweeteners cause other problems as well, such as cancer.

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    • There's no credible evidence that excessive sugar consumption will cause diabetes in someone who isn't already predisposed to it.  Of course, if someone is predisposed to type 2 diabetes, then being too fat (to which excessive sugar consumption can certainly contribute) will very likely bring out that diabetes.

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      by Anonymous on January 30th, 2007

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