Sugar- The Many Health Dangers and Hidden Names

The average American consumes nearly 150 pounds of sugar each year. 

Yet, Sugar has NO nutritional value.

Sugar is high in fructose which can overload and damage your liver.

Overloading Your Liver With Fructose Can Cause Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

Further---It is NOT the fat intake but the SUGAR INTAKE That Raises Your Cholesterol and Causes Heart Disease.

Sugar can also cause cancer, allergies, diabetes, high blood pressure, and more illnesses.
  Reference- Authority Nutrition 

What happens when sugar is in our blood?

When our pancreas detects sugar, it releases a hormone called insulin to handle all of that excess sugar.

Insulin then helps to regulate that level of sugar in our blood. Thus, the more sugar in our blood stream, the more insulin that is released. 

Insulin then helps to store up all of this glucose in the liver and muscles as glycogen and in fat cells (aka adipocytes stored as triglycerides).

TOO much insulin is released which  results in our blood sugar dropping below normal levels. This is called hypoglycemia, essentially a sugar crash.

          How does our body respond? 
Our bodies respond by telling us to eat more sugar! So- we eat more sugar and the cycle begins again.

Sugar is addicting.

 The following can be listed on a label and is sugar:

• Agave nectar
• Brown sugar
• Cane crystals
• Cane sugar
• Corn sweetener
• Corn syrup
• Crystalline fructose
• Dextrose
• Evaporated cane juice
• Organic evaporated cane juice
• Fructose
• Fruit juice concentrates
• Glucose
• High-fructose corn syrup
• Honey
• Invert sugar
• Lactose
• Maltose
• Malt syrup
• Molasses
• Raw sugar
• Sucrose
• Syrup

 Reference- Nerd Fitness


            By Diane Gammon M.S. Clinical Mental Health Counselor

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