5 Effects of Sugar

🍰🍩🥤The average American consumes (eats AND drinks) 34 teaspoons of sugar PER day! This adds up to more than 100 POUNDS per year.

Some of these toxic sugars include Fructose, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Truvia, Saccharin, Aspartame, and Sucralose.

👀 Checkout some effects of sugar on your body and stop eating your share of the toxin:

1. Weight Gain: sugar is inflammatory, which means it causes swelling and therefore weight gain. Stop eating sugar to lose bloating, you’ll also likely lose some water retention that comes along with bloating/inflammation.

2. Immune System Deterioration: when your gut becomes inflamed (effect #1), your immune system sets out to attack the very thing that caused the inflammation in the first place. This repetitive action (every time you consume sugar) causes your immune system to get fatigued, and therefore becomes less effective in attacking viruses and pathogens. Stop eating sugar and your immune system will be more effective at fighting off colds, flus, + viruses.

3. Changes How the Gut Works: bottom line, sugar changes your microbiome. A large part of digestion takes place in your gut and when sugar messes with it, you may not be able to digest your food properly. Additionally, sugar is an anti-nutrient that leaches the nutrients from healthy foods that are meant to be provided to your body. This adds weight gain and also triggers your immune response, leading to sickness.

4. Sleep Problems: sugar messes with important neurotransmitters that are produced in the microbiome of your gut such as melatonin, which makes you sleepy. Sugar counteracts this property and interrupts normal sleep patterns.

5. Infections: most infections are connected to inflammation in some way. Sugar is the food of choice for infections and bacteria. Stop eating sugar = stop feeding infections.

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