Chances are, you’re already familiar with the well-known ways sugar wreaks havoc your health – it rots your teeth, contributes to obesity, and puts you at risk for Type 2 diabetes. But scientists have discovered that sugar is not only damaging – but deadly. In fact, Dr. Joseph Mercola says in his blog that eating sugar is far worse for your health that consuming fat.
Here are five surprising and scary findings and tips to cut sugar out of your diet.
1. It feeds cancer
A University of California Los Angeles study published earlier this month showed that cancer cells that were fed fructose gobbled up the simple sugar and proliferated. The results, researchers said, explain why previous studies had shown that high fructose levels were linked with greater incidence of pancreatic cancer. The cells were also fed another simple sugar, glucose, but the cells did not reproduce the way they did with fructose – increasing concern about a common processed food additive: high-fructose corn syrup.
