Is sugar bad for you?

The white crystalline substance we know of as sugar is an unnatural substance produced by industrial processes (mostly from sugar cane or sugar beets) by refining it down to pure sucrose, after stripping away all the vitamins, minerals, proteins, enzymes and other beneficial nutrients. What is left is a concentrated, unnatural substance which the human body is not able to handle, at least not in anywhere near the quantities that is now ingested in today's accepted lifestyle. Sugar is addictive. The average American now consumes approx 115 lbs of sugar per year! For hundreds of generations, your ancestors exsisted primarily on a diet of wild animals and vegetation. It was only with the advent of agriculture a mere 6,000 years ago- an extrodinarily small period in time- that humans began eating large amounts of sugar and starch in the form of grains and potatoes in their diet. With this change in diet came in a decrease in life expectantcy, increases in infant mortality and infectious disease, and higher nutritional deficiences. This is because consuming sugar also impairs your white blood cells' function and thereby decreases your body's immune system, making you more vulnerable to disease. The biggest reason sugar does more damage than any other poison, drug or narcotic is twofold: it is considered a "food" and ingested in such massive quantities and the damaging effects begin early, from the day a baby is born and is fed sugar in its formula (which is why breast is best!). Although mothers milk can be contaminated with with sugar is the mother ingests alot of sugar in her diet. Sugar is addictive to! Another reason sugar is bad for you is because it is slow but insidious. It takes years before it ruins your pancreas, your adrenal glands, throws your whole endocrine system out of kilter and produces a huge list of damage. If you examine the foods in the supermarket almost everything contains sugar - from cereals, to soups, to ketchup, to hotdogs. Eating a whole foods diet is imperative to avoiding as much sugar as possible. You can't go wrong with some meat and veggies! (and fruits in limited quantity) So just remember to think twice before you reach for that piece of cheesecake or doughnut... they are slow killers!