Sugar Addiction Not So Sweet

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Are you an addict? It may not be as harmful as heroin but sugar addiction is very real and it affects our lives in insidious ways.

Basically, carbohydrates consist of different types of simple sugars. Your body uses these sugars to create energy for your cells. Any sugars left unused are stored as glycogen in your liver and muscles.

Your Body Knows Best

Sugar

“I am confident that Western medicine will admit what has been known in the Orient for years: sugar is without question the number one murderer in the history of humanity—much more lethal than opium or radioactive fallout.”

Nyoiti Sakurazawa, Japanese Doctor

“No matter how difficult it is to realize that something so sweet can really be the devil in disguise, we have to start believing it. The hard facts are staring us in the face and telling us in no uncertain terms that our health and lives depend upon it.”

Ann Louise Gittleman, M.S., C.N.S.

Whenever it needs to, your body can access these glycogen stores by breaking them down into glucose to be released into your bloodstream.

When your brain informs the liver that enough glucose has been used to satisfy its energy needs, the glycogen levels in storage will increase until the liver and muscles reach capacity.

The remaining carbohydrates are then converted into fat for storage in adipose tissue.

Oh-oh! There’s the fat word. You got it - body fat.

Burn Your Fat Reserves

If you were to limit your carbohydrate intake to about 40% of your daily calories, your body would tap into its fat reserves for almost unlimited energy and that is very cool.

Unfortunately, most of us eat much more than that in the form of sugar. With table sugar and soft drink consumption alone, most Americans are living on the edge of some serious health hazards.

We need to recognize that this issue goes way beyond carrying a few extra pounds with us.

Food Manufacturers are Playing You

So, let’s call it like it is. Most of us consume way too much sugar and it’s an addiction that the food manufacturers are all too well aware of. The more sugar they pour into our foods, the more irresistible they become.

The effects of our sugar addiction may not be immediately noticeable. They may even take years to show up but eventually, you or someone you know, may be faced with:

diabetes,	high blood sugar,	migraines,
osteoarthritis,	ADHD,	cancer.

The fact of the matter is, your body needs very little sugar to function properly.

The rest of the sugars you consume interfere with the absorption of nutrients, contribute to malnutrition and weight gain, and rob your body of the valuable resources it needs to keep you in good health.

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