Everyone knows that there is sugar in desserts. You know when you pick up that donut, cookie, cake, ice cream, candy, and the like, you are consuming sugar. You know when you drop a couple to teaspoons of sweetener in your morning coffee or tea to manage the bitter taste you are adding sugar.
People do not always think of sugar when they eat french-fries, potato chips, ketchup, barbecue sauce, drink alcohol, power drinks, corn, potatoes, yams, many fruits, bread, milk and so much more. Your body converts most carbohydrates into sugar. There are fast sugars like most fast-food products (things that spike your blood sugar quick and raise it high for long a long period of time) and there are slow sugars like fruits (things that don’t spike your blook sugar quickly and don’t raise it high for long periods of time).
The American diet is loaded with sugars. Pay attention to how much sugar you consume in a day and try to decrease it by 10% to 20% every 3 months or so until it is no longer something your body craves. Remember a sugar addiction does just as much harm to your body as a drug or alcohol addiction. Don’t be fooled just because a sugar addiction doesn’t alter your ability to operate machinery. The damage it does is to the machinery inside of you, you know, your cells, tissues and organs.
Our mind and body are linked whether we like it or not. It does not matter if you agree or disagree with that statement. All science and human behavior show it. Our mind and body are constantly at war with what we actually do and what we should do.
Sugar is a cell destroyer. It works against the best interest of your health. Chat with a person who suffered grossly from arthritis pain and consumed a lot of sugar. Chat with the diabetic who was taking shots several times a day and popping multiple pills to manage their blood sugar levels. They will all share the story of how their health dramatically improved when they turned their back to sugars.
Resources:
Harvard Health Publishing, Harvard Medical School, The Sweet Danger of Sugar, January 6, 2022
https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/the-sweet-danger-of-sugar
WebMD, How Does Too Much Sugar Affect Your Body?, Locke Hughes, January 9, 2024, Medically Reviewed by Melinda Ratini, DO
https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/features/how-sugar-affects-your-body