{"id":1274,"date":"2016-07-01T07:23:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T14:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2018-05-21T03:57:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T10:57:42","slug":"wellness-mama-the-link-between-sugar-and-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wellness-mama-the-link-between-sugar-and-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellness Mama: The Link Between Sugar and Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katie, the \u201cWellness Mama\u201d writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sugar is everywhere in the modern diet and there\u2019s no doubt that it\u2019s making us obese, fatigued, and sick. You can\u2019t turn on the television without one commercial after another advertising candy, soda, or sugary breakfast cereals.<\/p>\n

While many of us have an intuition or research that makes us leery of sugar, there is plenty of media trying to convince us otherwise. Remember the \u201cit\u2019s just corn\u201d commercials claiming that high fructose corn sugar dangers were all in our heads and that HFCS is similar to \u201cjust eating fruit?\u201d<\/p>\n

Except for the minor detail that corn is not the same thing at all and the higher fructose content has a huge impact on our bodies. All calories are not equal and that\u2019s especially important to remember when it comes to sugar.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true that the cells in your body use \u201csugar\u201d as a fuel source but it runs more efficiently on natural sources such as vegetables and fruits. The sugar I\u2019m talking about here is the processed, empty calorie kind. It provides nothing in the way of nutrition or sustainable energy\u2026but it could be taking a lot from your body.<\/p>\n

Sugar in the United States is often made from sugar beets and corn. The majority of all sugar beet and corn crops are genetically modified (GMO). (1)<\/p>\n

A Focused Media Blitz that Works<\/h2>\n

The primary demographic of the sugar campaign is young people and that makes me furious. Kids\u2019 sugar intake is ten times higher than it was in 1900 \u2013 it\u2019s the main source of their dietary calories \u2013 and nothing good is coming from it. As a mom, I\u2019ve watched the trends change from (not so good) when I was a kid to absolutely awful today.<\/p>\n

It should shock me but it doesn\u2019t that the population in the United States consumes an average of about 170 pounds of sugar annually. That means a bunch of people eat less (like my family and probably yours) so many others are eating even more.<\/p>\n

The way society is eating shows in our health statistics. In all our history, we\u2019ve never been sicker. Cases of diabetes, heart disease, obesity (and childhood obesity), neurological disorders, behavioral disorders, autoimmune diseases, and cancer are out of control. Consider this:<\/p>\n

1890: 3-in-100,000 people diagnosed with diabetes<\/p>\n

2012: 8,000-in-100,000 people diagnosed with diabetes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Modern medical technology struggles to keep up with our sickening society but you can\u2019t fix a problem like this with a machine or a pill. This requires an evaluation of what we\u2019re eating, how much we\u2019re eating, and what it\u2019s doing to our health (as well as an adjustment in some important lifestyle factors like sleep, toxin exposure and stress).<\/p>\n

The long-term effects of this seemingly harmless enemy are well documented. Countless studies show the dangers of sugar on human health, but have done nothing to change the massive use of it in our food supply. Even foods you wouldn\u2019t necessarily consider \u201csweet\u201d (like bread, yogurt, and oatmeal) are packed with sugar.<\/p>\n

Sugar cravings have a scientific basis. In a shocking study in France, Dr. Serge Ahmed offered his rats a choice between table sugar and cocaine. They chose the sugar (and the resulting dopamine) just like so many of us do. You get the \u201chigh,\u201d feel great, start to crash, and go for more sugar to get the \u201chigh\u201d back again.<\/p>\n

The Link Between Sugar and Cancer<\/h2>\n

You know what else loves sweets? Cancer cells.<\/p>\n

When sugar molecules attach to the proteins in your body, it is called glycosylation. Cells like these are present in high quantities in most types of cancer tissue. Though they were identified long ago, the findings were ignored since they were believed to be harmless. It was only recently that scientists fit the pieces together. It changed everything they knew about the sugar-cancer connection.<\/p>\n

Researchers with the University of Copenhagen confirmed that not only are these sugar byproducts present in tumors, they actively stimulate growth. Author Catharina Steentoft said, \u201cIt is a rather big step forward since it gives us an entirely new understanding of something we have worked many years to grasp. It guides our entire field of research towards new ways to proceed in the battle against cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Katie, the \u201cWellness Mama\u201d writes: Sugar is everywhere in the modern diet and there\u2019s no doubt that it\u2019s making us obese, fatigued, and sick. You can\u2019t turn on the television without one commercial after another advertising candy, soda, or sugary breakfast cereals. While many of us have an intuition or research that makes us leery…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35,142,89],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthandvitality","tag-cancer","tag-obesity","tag-sugar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}