Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 In fact, there is a better correlation between excess consumption of refined sugar and heart disease than there is with cholesterol consumption. excess sugar consumption also increases blood triglycerides, produces disease-causing cross-links in proteins, inhibits immune function, and interferes with vitamin C transport.
Protein cross-linking, a process that interferes with protein function in cells, is a particularly dangerous result of excess sugar consumption. Many of the affected proteins are enzymes essential to proper energy generation and metabolic function within cells. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Because the excess sugar we consume today coalesces into a syrupy mixture that coats our organs and creates glasslike shards that can cut up the blood vessels and tissues of our body. The constant wounds of these sugar surges lead to chronic inflammation, which wastes our ability to defend ourselves with false alarms. As a result, we're prone to infections and arterial damage and less able to cope with common stresses we could normally fend off— like hypertension or high cholesterol, or even cigarette smoke. |
| The smooth inside layer of your arteries is pum-meled by a variety of things: high blood pressure, cigarettes, excess sugar. When that happens, your body sends lousy LDL cholesterol (remember it by its first initial) to those damaged areas in an attempt to heal the wounds. Your immune cells in the damaged area swallow up the LDL cholesterol and burrow into the inner layer of your arteries.
Your body then reacts to the wounds and the cholesterol with a low-grade inflammation. |
KC Craichy
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 The pancreas responds by secreting excess insulin to offset the sharp rise in blood sugar, and this results in the liver converting the excess sugar to LDL (or bad) cholesterol and triglycerides (a saturated fat), which is not healthy. Also, the increased insulin levels that result from such a huge inflow of sugar into your bloodstream block your body's ability to burn the newly created triglycerides, which end up as increased blood triglycerides levels and as body fat. Check your waistline—there it is.
Your body simply can't handle the excess sugar. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 One of the jobs of insulin is to clear the bloodstream of excess sugar. The more sugar in your bloodstream, the more insulin the pancreas has to send out to get the job done. While insulin is necessary for life, too much of it can set you up for high blood pressure. Insulin sends a message to the kidneys that says "Hold on to the sodium, dude!" This in turn means you have to hold on to more water to balance the excess sodium. Excess sodium plus excess water translates into high blood pressure—an enormous risk factor for heart disease. Insulin is also known as "the fat storage hormone. |
| That means that if there's a genetic predisposition for the ovaries to overproduce androgen hormones—as there is with women who have PCOS—the excess insulin that's sent into the bloodstream to deal with the excess sugar winds up bathing these nonresistant tissues in an ocean of insulin that's way too much for their needs. And one of the responses to all that insulin hitting the ovaries is that they produce even more testosterone and androstene-dione, which leads to hair loss, acne, obesity, infertility, and other symptoms of PCOS. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 When you regularly consume
It's not just about the calories when it comes to excess sugar in the diet. One recent alarming study showed that the effect of a diet filled with sugary foods can make you up to 70 percent more vulnerable to pancreatic cancer.9
Researchers believe this is because a constant flood of sugar puts your pancreas into overdrive as it struggles to produce the insulin your body needs to control elevated sugar in your blood. foods that are extraordinarily sweet, your taste buds grow accustomed to this extraordinary level of sweetness and then crave it. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Insulin's jobs include escorting excess sugar in the bloodstream to the cells where it can be burned for energy. But in at least 2 5 percent of the population, this metabolic pathway doesn't work properly. Blood sugar goes up, insulin goes up, the cells refuse to allow either of them in, and you're left with the enormous health risks of high blood sugar and high insulin, a sure path to either metabolic syndrome or diabetes. We call this condition insulin resistance; its opposite is insulin sensitivity, which is what you want. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 In 1982,1 included vital information on how excess sugar can harm your heart in my first book, All about Me: Hercules, the Heart, which was for children.
Over the years, the relationship between sugar and aging kept coming up time and time again, including about 20 years later, when I was getting certified as a nutrition specialist.
Simply put, high blood sugar and high insulin are a lethal combination. Later in SUGAR SHOCK! you'll learn more about advanced glycation end products, or AGEs, which—as my colleague Dr. |
| Of course, these drug reps aren't talking about studies that show the relationship between excess sugar consumption and heart disease, despite the fact that so much information is out there. As you'll soon learn in SUGAR SHOCK!, we seek to fill in these many, many educational gaps.
In the last 25 years, many cardiologists have come to believe that high ("bad") LDL cholesterol (greater than 160) causes heart disease. I, however, see cholesterol as only a small part of the disease process. It's a minor player, but it's been built up to be the major player. |
Andreas Moritz
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 The liver tries to convert some of the excess sugar into fat, stored by adipose cells. This can make the body fat. To get rid of the rest of the sugar in the blood, the urinary system goes into overdrive. Eventually, the body enters a condition of chronic exhaustion due to the lack of cellular energy. The adrenals respond by pumping extra amounts of stress hormones into the blood, creating mood swings, anxiety and depression. The endocrine glands malfunction. Overtaxed by the constant demand for extra insulin, the pancreas fails to produce enough. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| So if eating excess sugar is one of the many factors that can lead to diabetes (and this seems to be a possibility in people who have a family history of diabetes), then sugar may be implicated in sexual dysfunction, albeit in a roundabout way."
Doesn't Sugar Sometimes Increase Libido Rather Than Decrease It? Only Briefly.
If you're in your teens or twenties and you're a huge soda drinker or cookie muncher, it may be hard to imagine that your sugar habit could put a damper on your sex life. Ironically, eating lots of sweets might actually appear to benefit your bedroom life. |
David Wolfe
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 Because excess sugar spills off into the urine, excessive urination can occur when the sugar is not being immediately utilized (due to a lack of activity). Excessive urination leads to dehydration and a potassium overdose, behind which follows constipation. This process is accelerated if nuts are included in the diet (without greens) as nuts are more difficult to digest and slow the digestive system. If this process continues unabated, a minor diabetic condition will occur as the body is constantly urinating to spill off excess sugar. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| So where does excess sugar intake fit into this equation? In order for diabetic men to have a satisfying sex life, they must keep their blood glucose at normal levels. But while cutting out sweets and refined processed sugars might help, "no one should make the leap that if you eat a good diet, you can control diabetes," Dr. Snow says.
"A therapeutic regimen is much more than a diet. Exercise, diet, insulin levels, and medication when appropriate all need to be in balance to control diabetes," he adds, noting that for men who monitor well, the rate of impotence falls to 30 percent. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 It tells the liver to convert excess sugar into fat for long-term energy storage. ţIt stimulates cells to grow.
Insulin gets us in trouble with its second function. The only thing that would make our early ancestors' insulin levels rise rapidly was a ton of fruit sugar, unlike leaves, tubers, nuts, or meat. Their genetic autopilots would correctly assume that eating lots of fruit meant it was late summer or early fall, and release of insulin would signal their liver to turn sugar into fat so they could make it through the winter. |
Tom Bohager
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 Recommendations include regular dental care; regular brushing and flossing; a healthy, well-balanced diet; elimination of toxic agents (smoking, alcohol, excess sugar); and nutritional support. Enzymes can improve digestion and nutrient absorption, support the immune system, and maintain balanced pH levels. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 You also have what is called non-ketogenic hyperosmolar syndrome, with rapid dehydration because you have so much sugar that your body is attempting to get rid of excess sugar and you lose large amounts of water through the urine, which is called polyuria. The hyperosmolar syndrome can be a serious problem. It can also be activated by medical problems such as pneumonia, burns, stroke, and use of certain drugs such as glucocorticoids and diuretics.
Chronic complications in both Type-1 and Type-2 diabetes are similar. They emerge from the same causal pathways. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Cordain and other experts: excess sugar and processed carbs trigger high insulin levels. In turn, these high insulin levels bring about an endocrine (hormonal) response that simultaneously promotes unregulated tissue growth, which causes a buildup of pore-clogging skin cells and enhanced androgen (male hormone) secretions.
In other words, chronic high-insulin levels bring about excessive androconfessidns df a sugar kicker
"I've had skin issues since I was 13. My acne was anywhere from moder-( ate to intense. I found that the key to having good skin is cutting out sugar. |
| So how does excess sugar speed up those unwanted lines and wrinkles? Here, in theory, is what happens: When we eat sweets and refined carbs that rapidly convert to sugar in our bloodstream, those sugar molecules attach themselves to proteins in our bloodstream. And in a manner slightly reminiscent of a doomed relationship, once sugar and protein bind together, undesired chemical reactions ensue. Sugar and proteins do something called "cross-linking"—a process that scientists call glycation or glycosylation. |
Gabriel Cousens
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| Symptoms of nerve damage include numbness, tingling, increased sensitivity to touch, insensitivity to pain and temperature, and loss of coordination. The excess sugar also damages blood vessels that carry the oxygen and nutrients to the nerves. People with Syndrome X are more likely to develop obstruction to the arteries and therefore increased or decreased blood flow to the extremities, which creates increased rates of amputations. Up to 70 percent of people with Syndrome X have some form of nerve damage. It is even worse in smokers. |
Melody Petersen
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 The disease allows excess sugar to build in the blood. If not controlled, diabetes exacts a terrific toll on the body, causing disabling complications like blindness and even early death.
Type 2 diabetes can often be managed, even cured, by exercising more and eating less. But many doctors don't explain this to their patients. They assume Americans don't have the willpower. It is much easier for doctors, in the fifteen to twenty minutes they take to see a patient, quickly to prescribe a pill and send the afflicted on his or her way. The drug companies could not be happier with this situation. |
Ron Garner
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 Even though these diseases are clearly due to excess sugar intake, sugar continues to be added to almost every processed food on market shelves. Many soft drinks contain eight tablespoons of sugar plus phosphoric acid! Researcher Nancy Appleton reported that 69 illnesses and diseases are caused by the consumption of refined sugar. She concluded that sugar excesses ruin our health.5
As if sugar isn't bad enough, artificial sweeteners, which have been introduced into over 5000 food and drink products, are absolute poisons. During his 30 years of research on Alzheimer's disease, Dr. H. J. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 Milk is a complete nutritional package for children younger than one, but it also provides excess sugar that they don't need after the first year of life. The combo of simple sugar and protein promotes insulin resistance.
Protein is a more potent stimulus for insulin release than sugar; the combination of protein and sugar shoots your glucose way up. That's why you are better off with lean protein and vegetables. Unsalted natural nut butter is a better choice than cheese—it has just as much protein but healthier fat and no salt.
Feed fish and chicken to children one and older. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Other logical dietary considerations for women with recurring infections are to avoid excess sugar consumption, assess and avoid food allergens, and eat a diet that promotes healthy digestive function, including complex carbohydrates, high fiber, fermented dairy products, and healthy oils such as olive oil, nuts, and seeds.
Large amounts of fluids are highly recommended for preventing UTIs, as they literally flush out the urinary tract and dilute the concentration of disease-causing bacteria. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Disturbances in glucose metabolism had been reported in Alzheimer's disease decades ago, with scientists theorizing that either the brain of a diabetic person lacks sufficient glucose to function properly or excess sugar in a diabetic person's bloodstream does vascular damage that affects blood flow to neurons.
In Madrid, evidence was presented to suggest that antidiabetic drugs could be used as a treatment for AD. |
Mark Sircus
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 Also deficiencies develop when magnesium elimination is increased, which it is in people who use alcohol, caffeine, or excess sugar, or who take diuretics or birth control pills. We can add to this list vaccines because they offer a traumatic insult to the body that have to be defended against and that defense gobbles up both magnesium and vitamin C.
A major hidden precipitating factor in magnesium deficiency is what is called magnesium wasting that increases with increasing metabolic acidosis. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 Candida organisms contribute to the excess sugar cravings. The toxins they produce from sugar ingestion make a person feel foggy and spacey, contributing to the overall fatigue present in any person with out-of- balance sugar cravings.
It is best to avoid all artificial sweeteners on The Leptin Diet™ because they flood the brain with sweet sensation in the absence of calories. This type of "sweet ingestion abuse"occurs nowhere in our genetic evolution.
Antiquated dietary guidelines recommend individuals use these to lower calorie intake, in essence replacing sugar. |
Patrick Holford
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 When it's too high, you turn the excess sugar into fat, and when it's too low you feel lethargic. The end result of insulin resistance is diabetes.
Whenever your blood sugar level rises, your body produces the hormone insulin, which helps transport the sugar from your blood into your cells, converting any excess sugar into fat. The more often your blood sugar rises, the more insulin you produce. And as more insulin is produced, more sugar is turned into fat. Over time, your body's cells become less responsive (or resistant) to insulin, causing even more insulin to be produced. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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| To satisfy NPY and prevent excess sugar consumption, flavor is the key. By all means, have a glass of wine if desired and tolerated. Do not pick an entree that is thought to be low in calories but really does not sound satisfying. Pick something that sounds like it will have a lot of flavors you enjoy. Enjoyable flavor stimulation during the course of the meal is vital to not end up with an unstoppable feeling of needing something sweet in order to feel satisfied. Oddly, skipping dessert does not feel like deprivation and the scale will reward these efforts the next morning. |
Byron J. Richards
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 Overweight individuals are generally poisoning themselves with food. excess sugar caramelizes and cements body structure that is supposed to be flexible. Excess fat clogs cells, organs, and arteries. Excess protein leads to nerve toxicity. While food is vital to life, too much in general or too much of any one kind is literally poison.
Hormones Are Energy Managers
The factors governing ATP production are complex. The human body has evolved a system of energy management based on substances we call hormones, used to orchestrate the function of one hundred trillion employees. |
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