Sugar Is Evil – 3 Facts Which Prove This!

I love ice cream and I love chocolate. Unfortunately both of these foods when bought commercially will contain refined sugar. It is not just these obvious foods that will include sugar in the ingredients. Almost all breakfast cereals will contain sugar as well as most sauces/mayonnaise. Next time you’re buying your groceries take a look at which

Sugar is bad. In fact sugar as we know it, is not a natural substance. Refined sugar has been robbed of all the vitamins, minerals, proteins, enzymes and other beneficial nutrients that original sugar cane or beet contains. In fact, ironically refined sugar lacks chromium which is a chemical needed for our blood sugar levels to be healthily managed (i.e. severe deficiencies in this chemical will mean our bodies could ignore how much sugar is in our blood).

There are many reasons why sugar is bad, but today I’m listing just 3 reasons why I personally try to avoid sugar as much as possible.

1. Too much sugar makes us fat
Hopefully this isn’t news to you. When we eat sugar we will almost always consume far more than our body has use for. Because our body cannot consume the extra unnecessary sugar it will then be stored as fat. Too much fat in the body will cause obesity which is known to be a leading
factor of diseases.

2. Sugar is highly addictive and after experiencing the sugar high, you’ll then have to deal with either stress or depression or both before returning back to normal.
This is because When we go on a sugar high our bodies release hormones to reduce the sugar level in our blood back to a normal level (our bodies do the same thing when we consume a lot of caffeine). Unfortunately, as these suppressive hormones have side effects in themselves (such as stress
and then lethargy). Once the cycle is complete it leaves us feeling like nothing else but more sugar. Now do you know why you experience sugar cravings so often?

The more we eat sugar the more our bodies will produce the suppressive hormones to balance out the blood sugar level. In time this can lead to too much suppressive hormones in our system so that we have to eat sugar just to feel normal.

3. Too much sugar is a leading cause of diabetes, hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia and heart disease (just to name a few diseases).
For more convincing reasons on why sugar is so bad for you, check out ’124 Ways Sugar Can Ruin Your Health’, an article found on FormerFatGuy.com. Refined sugar is a catalyst for countless physical disorders.

Conclusion: Any amount of sugar is too much sugar
I imagine (if you’re anything like me) you’ll never be able to give up sugar completely. As bad as it may be, it sure does taste good! What I would like to think however, is that you’ll at least consider eliminating sugar from your diet at home. There are plenty of substitutes for sugar for those times when you have a sweet tooth, and there are also some substantial benefits from not eating sugar (including fat loss of course).

Are there any readers out there who don’t eat sugar as a rule?

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14 comments so far

Comment by Rob - Former Fat Guy
19 June 2008

My girlfriend and I were talking about this just the other day. I had to think about it, but I dont remember actually buying a bag of sugar in my adult life. Last time was in college, just out of high school, when I was approaching my highest weight of 475 pounds.

I dont buy sugar substitutes (aspartame, sucralose, nutrasweet), nor do I even touch the stuff. I was at a conference one time in 2001 when it was shown through a blind test, that simply HOLDING artificial sweeteners lowered your energy levels.

I use stevia – a plant, and that’s it.

I avoid all sugar, and it seems that for the past 20 years, it’s been the norm for me.
Comment by Elliot Wilson
22 June 2008

Hi Rob,

Although I don’t buy artificial sweeteners (or bags of sugar for that matter), I find it very hard to completely avoid it. I don’t like to refuse eating something someone has baked specially for me… I do think if you generally avoid it as a rule your body has no problem handling that little bit every now and then.

As for stevia, it is something I’ve only just recently discovered so I’m very interested in checking it out more. Do you grow it or buy it?

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Comment by luluruguay
14 November 2009

Stevia comes in little pacages ready to consume as if you were using nutrasweet or some other sweetener. One of its brand names is SPLENDA, but there are other names as well
Comment by Kit
9 December 2009

Splenda is made from stevia? Are you sure?
Comment by Aaron Stewart
12 May 2010

i read somewhere on the internet that long term consumption of Aspartame is not really good for the health. ~,-
Comment by Nerd2Nerd
23 June 2010

Hey,

Excellent post. I am trying very hard to give up sugar as well. I used to use 6 heaping teaspoons per day in my coffee. I calculated that every 22 days or so that was equivalent to 1 pound weight gain. Previously no matter how much exercise I got I could not lose any weight.

After losing 9 pounds in 6 months I am again looking at ways to cut sugar usage. I just started the process of changing my breakfast cereal that is loaded with sweets.

I am also going to try to switch from having ice cream for desert to having fruit with milk.

I am starting to feel more mentally alert now that I am cutting down on the stuff as well.

I wish everyone good luck in kicking the sugar habit!
Comment by Kim Setser
2 August 2010

Splenda is not made from the Stevia plant. Totally different.
Comment by elsa
25 November 2010

I began realizing how badly I craved sugar everyday but seemed powerless to stop myself. It started to take a very bad health toll on me. So after sometime in prayer asking Jesus to help me kick the habit, I got sick, lost my taste for sugar( my taste buds got messed up), and before I knew it I wasn’t eating sugar. Thanks be to Jesus for giving me the will power and using my cold to help kick start my kicking the sugar habit. I will be enjoying getting rid of all the toxins and getting my health back on track. Aloha! From Hawaii.
Comment by annonymousd
19 May 2011

argh. I have the sugar addiction bad. I just saw the video on youtube call “Sugar: the bitter truth”.

I’m going to try again to eliminate sugary foods. It always gives me stomach and bladder problems.
Comment by Cherissa
21 July 2011

Stevia is NOT made from Splenda. Stevia is not a name brand either. Stevia is the name of a sweet indigenous plant of S. America. I too do not eat sugar, cane sugar, honey of any sort, or any artificial sweeteners, no fruit or anything that has sugar in it that is above 2 grams per serving natural or not. I have not eaten sugar in so long that one time I tasted (and by taste I mean I stuck the tip of my pinkie finger into my friend’s cheesecake dessert and tasted it and it was actually bitter tasting to me. GROSS! MY tastebuds have changed because I no longer eat sugar.
Comment by Ashley
10 October 2011

Sugar isn’t bad. Sugar is a carbohydrate, which is our main source of energy. Now I’m not saying that a lot of sugar is good for a person, but it is impossible to completely cut out sugar from our diet. Moderation is key. Also, artifical sugars are found to be worse for a person’s health then regular sugar.
Comment by Elliot Wilson
10 October 2011

Refined sugar is bad. Just look at what it has done to the health of any people group after it is introduced as a food. Natural sugars are fine in moderation (e.g. 1 or 2 pieces of fruit a day).