Trick or Treat? The Dangers of Sugar

The Dangers of Sugar Hi, I’m Dr. Marie Starling At The Healing Center Denver, we help people like you reach their full potential through personalized functional medicine. As your Functional Medicine specialist in Denver, CO, we specialize in adjunctive care for internal disorders, autoimmune conditions, IBS, thyroid symptoms, diabetes, and other complex health issues. The Dangers of Sugar The American Heart Association lists the following foods as containing high amounts of refined sugars. carbonated soda candy cookies fruit juice drinks dairy desserts ice cream cereals waffles Please watch your list of ingredients! Refined sugar will appear on product labels under other names, such as: brown sugar corn sweetener corn syrup high-fructose corn syrup malt sugar dextrose lactose cane sugar molasses What are the dangers of refined sugar? Not only are sugary foods high in calories, but it also suppresses your immune system, can cause sleep problems, weight gain and feed the bad bacteria growth in your belly. Refine sugars can wreak havoc on your body. In the book, Sugar Shock, by Connie Bennett C.H.H.C., with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D. defines this havoc: A mood-altering, emotionally devastating, mentally damaging, physically destructive constellation of symptoms affecting million of people worldwide, who are caught in a cycle of overindulging in refined sweets and much-like-sugar carbohydrates like white bread, pasta and chips. Mounds of research reveal that repeatedly overconsuming these nutrient-deprived quickie carbohydrates and caloric sweeteners wreaks havoc on your blood sugar levels, over stimulates insulin release, triggers inflammation, and could contribute to 150-plus health concerns, including obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, polycystic ovary syndrome, failing memory, sexual dysfunction, and infertility. Victims of SUGAR SHOCK! May also experience depression, fatigue,...