1247: The Dangers of Eating Too Much Sugar

If we were to examine all of the things that cause sickness, illness, even if you break it down further: cancer, heart disease, diabetes, dementia—all of the health problems that are really plaguing modern societies... the number one culprit is food.

There was one study—they took 30,000 people and they found that those who consume 17-21% of their calories from added sugar had a 38% greater risk of heart disease.

In a study of 2,300 teens, those that consumed added sugar had a 30% greater risk of developing acne.

There was a study that looked at over 5,000 people, and it showed that regularly drinking sugar-sweetened beverages was associated with shorter telomere length and premature cellular aging.

Reducing sugar in your diet is a very easy way to make a large, positive impact on your nutrition.

A high-sugar diet is almost always a high-calorie diet.

High fructose consumption has even been shown to potentially cause leptin resistance.

A sizable percentage of people who die from heart disease and cancer were never overweight ... Just because you're not overweight does not mean that you're not doing damage to your body.

You take someone with Alzheimer's and dementia and you put them on a low-sugar diet—or you take it a step further and you put them on a very, very low-carbohydrate more ketogenic diet—their cognition improves.

They've done studies where they've compared women who consume lots of refined carbohydrates and sugars to women who can consume a high-protein/low-carbohydrate diet, and they find that there's more of a wrinkled appearance in the women who consume more sugar.

If you're going to drink a drink that contains calories, for the most part, it's a high-sugar drink.

Some scientists would say that about 72 or more percent of all cancers can be prevented through lifestyle and good diet and from not being obese.