Mood swings and depression has been linked to fluctuations in blood glucose levels. Remember, when refined sugar products are eaten, first there's the 'rush' or 'highs' experienced, and then the pancreas overcompensates by jetting out more than enough insulin (roller coaster ride). Way too much glucose gets taken out and converted into storage. So now there's low-level blood glucose. Cravings for more of that sweet stuff comes about and the accompanying feelings of being foggy headed, depressed or down in the dumps results.

-Sugar feeds bad micro-organisms

If ever there is a circumstance whereby disease is allowed to manifest, it is by means of a sugar environment. Micro-organisms can be abundantly present in the body's internal dead-end regions. For example, they can be at ducts or lymph nodes. Give them sugar, their most favourite meal of the day, and they will greatfully grow and multiply. Consequently, you could be well on the way to illness from the toxic environment they generate.

The precursor to ageing is the nasty yellow-brown compounds called Advanced Glycation End-products (AGE's), made up of sugar and body tissue protein. In effect, the body becomes oxidised and then ageing, premature grey hair and wrinkles... manifests. Sugar addiction could allow a rusting away into an early grave, since degenerative disease could soon follow on.

Don't forget that sugar has no nutrition value of its own. It is of no use to the body's cells: No contribution to growth or repair. So if sugar is eaten, the body is depleted of nutrients by having to deal with it. For example, as William Duffy quite rightly points out in his excellent book 'Sugar Blues', through eating sugar, the body is depleted of copper, which is an essential in maintaining the elasticity in veins and arteries. This could lead to strokes or aneurysms. Other essential elements such as sodium, potassium and calcium are used up in handling the sugar onslaught. If too much calcium is used in dealing with sugar, then this could lead to osteoporosis. Not all the sugar is detoxified in the body. Metabolic remnants are left behind that accumulate as fatty deposits.

Sugar can also contribute to an unhealthy acid imbalance in the body.

-See the difference an abstinence from refined sugar can make for you!!

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