The Sugar Season will soon be upon us!  Halloween candy, Thanksgiving pies, sugary Christmas treats and holiday cookies and cakes in between, until New Year’s Eve, when we all resolve to eat healthier next year!

But Americans overindulge on sugar all year long. According to nutrition experts at Tufts University, we each average 30 teaspoons of added sugar (sugar not naturally found in foods) daily—over 100 pounds of sugar per person per year! 

So what’s the harm in adding a little sweetness to our lives?  Well, a little is fine—2 pieces of fresh fruit a day and even occasional treats made with honey and other natural sweeteners.  But the huge quantities of refined white sugar, and high fructose corn syrup in processed foods, that have become a normal part of the American diet are a major cause of disability and disease.

Numerous studies link excess sugar consumption with arthritis, age-related macular degeneration and cataracts, cancer, cognitive impairment, depression, diabetes, tooth decay, heart disease and many other health issues. In fact, the rise of chronic disease in modern societies has paralleled the rise in sugar consumption.

For more on sugar’s damaging effects, see “Sugar—A Poor Choice,” by Raymond Francis, Nancy Appleton’s “144 ways sugar ruins health” and the work of Dr. Robert Lustig, professor of pediatrics at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. Lustig calls sugar a poison that alters biochemistry leading to the chronic diseases that plague the western world and an addictive substance like alcohol and tobacco that should be highly regulated. 

So how can you get excess sugar out of your life?

1. Become informed. Like tobacco before it, sugar became an integral part of our lives before science discovered its hazards to health. Most people are still unaware of exactly how dangerous it is, and because it’s highly addictive, it’s hard to give it up. Read the references above and learn why Raymond Francis and others call sugar a “metabolic poison.”  

2. Be aware of all the places sugar hides out. Minimize processed foods—a major source of added sugar.

3. Resist temptation by eating a nourishing, balanced diet, with plenty of proteins and good fats. Have fruit and nuts on hand for snack emergencies, and drink lots of pure water.

4. Take supplements. The vitamin C molecule is a close cousin to the sugar molecule, and drinking several glasses of pure water daily mixed with  energizing powdered vitamin C can help reduce sugar cravings. Glutamine is also used to break addictions. 

Getting excess sugar out of your life can make an immediate difference in your physical and emotional health, your energy, and your immunity, and can greatly reduce your risk of chronic disease and premature aging long term. 

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