1.) Sugar makes you tired. Sugar may seem to give you a short term boost, but it always results in a crash. If you drink pop at noon and you feel tired at 3:00, it's because of the sugar.    

2)Sugar makes you hungry. Foods that contain sugar in them have very little nutrients so your body gets hungry sooner than if you had eaten a balanced meal. People who drink pop all day or eat candy  do so because the body is looking for nutrition and it's not receiving it, so it stays hungry.

3)Sugar  makes people not like you. When you get a sugar crash, you get grumpy or grouchy and you are no fun to be around.  

4) Sugar makes things go wrong around you. Immediately after consuming it, your brain is flooded with glucose and it goes into hyperdrive. Normal and proper thought and function of the brain turns into: "Zoom, zoom! - oops - mistakes made!" Then the sugar crash happens and it's: "Wah, Waah - too slow - who cares - let it slide!" Either way, your productivity and efficiency go down at work and at home.    

5) Sugar makes you fat and bloated. Sugar feeds bad yeast in your gut and you bloat up. Sugar is the cause of rising  obesity in kids and adults in this country. It's not from eating too much fat, it's too much Sugar and refined carbohydrates.  Sugar turns on your fat gene-- SCD-1. If your fat gene is turned on...well, fortunately with proper nutrition it is possible to turn off.

6) Sugar  causes disease.  Sugar breaks down tissues in your body, damaging your organs and causes disease.  

7) Sugar makes you stink. The broken down tissues in your body is like rotting flesh. It can get pretty gross and can make you have bad body odor even if you're a clean person.

8) Sugar causes chronic pain. It causes inflammation in areas where you have destroyed tissue which leads to pain.

9) Sugar is expensive. The cost is accrued after you eat it. You have decreased productivity at work, you get sick, you end up in the hospital after years of consumption.  The number one cause of personal bankruptcy is health care costs (even with insurance coverage!) Not mortgage defaulting. 

10) Sugar is a gateway drug. If you tell your doctor that you are tired or grumpy during the day (because of your Sugar crashes) WATCH OUT! He may give you Prozac or some other mind altering drug.  

11) Sugar makes you old. It dries out your skin and worsens your vision. Your joints deteriorate so you need a cane or something to aid your walking.  

12) Sugar ruins your life. It can give you cancer, heart disease and diabetes.

13) Sugar kills you. It's much slower than a bullet, though.  

This info from empirical evidence right here in the office. We see it in our patients when they first come in to get help with their health.  It's backed up by thousands of studies as well, but our best evidence is our patients who we see with these problems Before they turn their health around and then they have the problems go away after kicking the sugar habit.

Yours in Health,

Dr. Schmidt