By Nancy Appleton, PhD
Summary: You've heard that sugar can suppress the body's immune system, but did you know it interferes with the absorption of calcium? How about that it can cause food allergies, depression, and cancer of the breast, ovaries, and prostate? Or that sugar can reduce the good cholesterol in your blood and increase the triglycerides—two of the strongest indicators we have of heart disease risk? Despite the massive commercial campaign to paint refined sugar as harmless or at worst merely "empty calories," hoards of scientific evidence indicate that it is far worse than that. In this startling list, Dr. Appleton documents 124 ways in which sugar has been scientifically implicated as a poison to human health, complete with 124 reputable references—many of them from peer-reviewed publications—to back up her claims. 2004.
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