It’s been 2 months since I stopped eating white sugar. For me is a miracle. I am the person who eats 1 box of chocolate every day or 2-3 pieces of a chocolate cake. Why I stopped? Because I start feeling so bad.
We need sugar, but consuming white sugar in excess is so bad for us. So now, I take my sugar from fruits and I am feeling so good now, lots of energy to play around with my boy.
Naturally occurring sugar—which gives fruit, some veggies, and milk their sweet taste—is perfectly healthy. It is added sugar that we need to not OD on.
It’s not just sugary foods like candy and cookies either, but sugar has made its way into practically EVERYTHING we eat.
When you consume sugar, your body has two options on how to deal with it:
- Burn it for energy.
- Convert to fat and store it in your fat cells.
Depending on your genetic predisposition, your body might be better equipped to process sugar as energy, or you might be more likely to store it as fat.
Effects of Consuming Too Much Sugar:
- It overloads and damages your liver
- It affects your insulin and leptin signaling.
- It causes metabolic dysfunction.
- It increases your uric acid levels.
10 Ways Sugar Harms Your Health
- Increases stress.
- Increases the risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
- Causes blood glucose to spike and plummet.
- Affects behavior and cognition in children.
- Can cause gum disease, which can lead to heart disease.
- Causes tooth decay.
- Accelerates aging.
- A high-sugar diet often results in chromium deficiency.
- Interferes with immune function.
- Is highly addictive (6 more times than cocaine)
I like to drink tea without sugar, but when my blood sugar drops I take some black chocolate.
We all know our bodies and what we need.
An excellent list of how added sugar harms your body.
Thank you
I’ve just given up sugar as well. It’s poison!
Good for you
Ever look up ‘sugar sensitivity’? That can even cause insomnia, depression, fatigue, and other symptoms. But then, its also a sensitivity to simple carbs such as bread and rice. Switching to complex carbs helps those with this issue. Great post.
Thank you. Good information.
What is a complex carb?
Complex carbohydrates consist of three or more sugars and they are fiber-rich.
Thank you. Can you give me an example? Please?
Here are lots of examples: http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-complex-carbohydrates.html
Thanks: good post on why not!
Sugar is our preferred form energy. Its source is plant photosynthesis: sunlight and chlorophyll. Our hunter-gatherer taste buds and desires crave it; our modern environment makes it too easily available.
What effects did getting rid of refined sugar do for you? Did you also get rid of other refined foods? Well done.
Thank you. I have more energy, I don’t feel tired anymore and I lost a few pounds of fat. I am working on given up white bread.
Oh yes I tried that last summer, I got this book Called ‘I quit sugar ‘ and gave it a go for 3 months
After just few weeks I could sleep much better at night and I was feeling full of energy!!! Is incredible how bad sugar is for our body! I should do that again !!!
Hi…thank you for liking my blog. Even I don’t have a sweet tooth, but not completely cut down sugar from my diet. Using palm sugar or palm jaggery is a fine alternative for white sugar.
Good luck with your blog as well 👍
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Lovely concise post. Glad to follow with a like-minded person.
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Great Blog! Thanks for sharing!
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I’d love to give up sugar but I’m definitely in the throes of sugar addiction! Thank you for sharing this information – I’ll keep it in mind!
You are welcome
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Definitely got a love / hate relationship with sugar!
Most of us have 😃
I really enjoyed reading this! Isn’t is amazing how what we eat affects all sorts of things like mood, stress levels and immunity? I try to avoid most white sugar… but I guess even the ‘fancier’ sugars like coconut sugar and rice malt syrup (which I do use in baking) are still sugars, just in another form. Some food for thought I guess 🙂
Some food for thought 😉
Great post. I’ve got a terrible sweet tooth and struggle with my sugar intake but I’m not sure I could ever go without dark chocolate…
Thank you
I don’t have sugar in the house, and read every label
That is very good.
Couldn’t Agree More !
Thanks for sharing! Sugar also causes cancer. Here is a good article about it:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2016/01/20/sugar-top-cause-cancer-surge.aspx
Thank you for your information
Very informative information, great post!
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Great post, and a great motivator for why I should quit sugar….again.
Thank you
Very interesting and insightful. I have a hereditary fructose intolerance, meaning I do not and cannot eat fructose; my body is not equipped with the enzyme to break it down! It’s always so interesting for me to read about those who have consciously chosen to remove it from their diet – I can only imagine how hard it must have been at the beginning! Just out of curiosity, have you noticed any health improvements since cutting your consumption of it? Take care!
Yes. Health was the first reason to remove white sugar. I have more energy, I sleep better and I feel great.
Awesome, congrats! 😀
Thanks
I did not know sugar is addictive. Tere us good info here.
Thank you
You are so correct! Good job on cutting down on sugar! It is no easy task! How are you doing now?
Thank you. I feel great!
I like you am currently cutting down on sugar after reading how bad sugar is for our health! I am only a mere two weeks in, with a long way to go! But I is nice to see others out there just like me! I have just started a blog, check it out and keep up to date with my journey and finding along the way 🙂 https://puresweetbutdeadly.wordpress.com/
Good luck!