Is sugar really detrimental to your health? What would eating too much of it do to you?
by 
Tom Chambers
ANSWERS: 5
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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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I once had a friend ask me why do we like sugar if it is so bad for us... the answer is that in nature when we hunted and gathered a sugar source was a great thing...(fruit and plant matter) it was calories much needed and involved fibre and work to gather it... now we have refined sugar- we drive to the store, park as close as possible and buy pounds of sugar or candy bars~~ You can wear out your pancrease (your insulin making organ) over a high sugar life and then you will need to have injections of insulin as though you were type 1 diabetic... or suffer organ damage from too high a blood sugar level- this is often diagnosed by eye doctors-- the eye pressure goes way up - and changes your vision...
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Sugars are healthy when eaten through mostly fruits and some vegetables.Sugar by itself added to food I would say is not healthy for your body.Case in point,when the explorers visited the tropical islands for the first time they noted in their journals that the natives were the finest physical specimins they have ever seen.Thier only source of sugar was through fruits and vegetables,uncooked .To this day they are healthier.Now look at the diet of Americans today with sugar added to every proceesed food we eat.Look at the obesity and health problems,and this is not due necessarily to non exercise.Myself I have ommited almost all processed foods,and sweets and have never felt better.I know I sounds hard to do but after a while I stopped craving pastries etc.I find it easy to maintain my weight without exercise.
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Too much? Well, if you eat enough it will kill you,, just like too much water will kill you.
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Two excellent books I would recommend to everyone that is wondering about Sugar (not the sugar found in raw fruits and vegetables) are: The China Study by Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell II. http://www.thechinastudy.com/about.html Sugar Blues by William Dufty http://www.becomehealthynow.com/article/readingnutrition/228/
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