67 Ways to kill Your Family with Sugar

In addition to throwing off the body's homeostasis (The ability or tendency of an organism or a cell to maintain internal equilibrium by adjusting its physiological processes.), excess sugar may result in a number of other significant consequences. The following is a listing of some of sugar's metabolic consequences from a variety of medical journals and other scientific publications.

1. Sugar can suppress the immune system.
A. Sanchez, et al.
"Role of Sugars in Human Neutrophilic Phagocytosis.
"American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, November 1973, pp. 1180-1184

2. Sugar can upset the body's mineral balance.
F. Couizy, C. Keen, M.E.Gershwin, and F.P. Mareschi.
Nutritional Implications of the Interaction between Minerals
Progressive Food and Nutrition Science 17, 1933, 65-87.

3. Sugar can cause hyperactivity, anxiety, concentration difficulties, and crankiness in children.
J.Goldman, et al.
"Behavioral Effects of Sucrose on Preschool Children,"
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 14 1986 565-577.

4. Sugar can cause drowsiness and decreased activity in children.
D. Behar, J. Rapoport, Berg C., Adams, and M. Cornblat.
"Sugar Testing with Children Considered Behaviorally Sugar Reactive."
Nutritional Behavior 1 1984 277-288

5. Sugar can adversely affect children's school grades.
Alexander Schausss.
Diet, Crime and Delinquecny (Berkeley, CA: Parker House 1981)

6. Sugar can produce a significant rise in triglycerides.
S. Scanto and John Yudkin.
"The Effect of Dietary Sucronse on Blood Lipids, Serum, Insulin, Platelet Adhesiveness and Body Weight in Human Volunteers.
Postgraduate Medicine Journal 45: 1969 602-607

7. Sugar contributes to a weakened defense against bacterial infection.
W. Rinsdor, E. Cheraskin, and R. Ramsay.
"Sucrose Neutrophlic Phagocystosis and Resistance to Disease".
Dental Survey 52. 12 1976 46-48.

8. Sugar can cause kidney damage.
J. Yudkin, S. Kang, and K. Bruckdorfer.
"Effects of High Dietary Sugar."
British Journal of Medicine 281, November 22, 1980,p. 1396.

9. Sugar can reduce helpful high density cholesterol (HDLs) and promote an elevation of harmful cholesterol (LDLs).
Lewis GF , Steiner G
Acute effects of insulin in the control of VLDL production in humans.
Implications for theinsulin-resistant state.
Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada. Diabetes Care 1996 Apr;19(4):390-3
R. Pamplona, M.J. Bellmunt, M. Portero, and J. Prat.
"Mechanisms of Glycation in Atherogenesis."
Medical Hypotheses 40, 1990, pp. 174-181.

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