Year of No Sugar

by Eve O. Schaub

How Fructose Makes You Fat and Sick 1. All sugar contains fructose. 2. Fructose does not satisfy hunger, so you eat more food than your body needs. 3. Fructose may not be used by any of the cells in our body, except the liver. 4. In processing fructose, the liver produces bad things: uric acid and fatty acids. 5. Too much uric acid causes: Gout Hypertension 6. Too many fatty acids cause: Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Insulin Resistance & Type 2 Diabetes Obesity 7. The clustering of two or more of the four conditions above is called Metabolic Syndrome. Virtually unheard of only a few decades ago, one in five Americans suffers from it today. 8. Additionally, circulating fatty acids have been proven to speed the growth of cancer cells. 9. Consumption of fructose has risen 341 percent in the last century and continues to climb. 10. So what do you call something that our body has no need for and that, when we take it in, creates toxic by-products in our bodies resulting in debilitation, disease, and untimely death? Well, doctors call that a poison.