How harmful is SUGAR to your body ?

Are you addicted to SUGAR without you even knowing about it ?
And what is the most important fact you should know about SUGAR?
Sugar is neither acidic nor alkaline, meaning it is neutral. But, when it is processed inside your body that it turns acidic. Meaning to say when sugar is broken down in your body it becomes acid as an end product.
Therefore,  SUGAR = ACIDIC

Your body should always maintain a healthy Acid - Alkaline Balance ( pH balance ). Even though your body has a natural way of maintaining pH balance, long term  excessive acidity in your system will put a strain to your body functions.
Even a slight increase in acidity in your body over a prolonged period of time will cause you a variety of health problems. And they are:

• Fatigue
• Accelerated ageing 
• Headache
• Tooth decay
• Obesity
• Decreased HDL and increased LDL
• Type 2 diabetes
• Hypertension
• Heart disease
• Dementia
• Low immune system
• Cancer 
• Damage to liver
• Osteoporosis
• and the list goes on

Excessive sugar intake is the most damaging substance to your body that you can ingest. Your body is not prepared for that. Majority of excess sugar becomes metabolised into body fat - leading to all sorts of debilitating chronic metabolic diseases many people are struggling with :-

• Fructose is almost exclusively metabolised by the liver. Excess fructose is converted to fat and stored in the liver giving rise to a fatty liver and causing fatty liver disease.
• Promotes insulin resistance giving rise to type 2 diabetes.
• Feeds cancer cells allowing cancer to spread faster.
  According to the American Anti-Cancer Institute,"When we consume sugar, we are simultaneously shutting off our defenses while pouring gasoline on the fire that is Cancer."
• Causes brain to work harder to burn off excess sugar for fuel. Long term effect is brain disorders like Alzheimer's disease.
• Excess sugar ends up as fat tissue causing obesity.

Research from some of America's most respected institutions (like Harvard Medical School) now confirm that sugar is a dietary factor that drives most chronic diseases development today.
So, have good control over what you eat and drink. The likes of sodas,sweet desserts, fruit drinks, frozen yogurts, candies,cookies, cakes and ice-creams - all contain great amount of refined sugar.
Glucose or sugar also come from some of the foods that we eat, like bread, pastas, noodles and cereals.

And here are some Tips on best ways to greatly reduce your sugar intake:

• If you are a coffee lover; try to drink coffee with much reduced sugar or best of all, like me, drink without sugar.
• If you love fruit juices; try mixing half your juice with more vegetables like celery, carrot, tomato and cucumber. No doubt fruit juices contain useful minerals, vitamins and fibre, but some fruits are also high in fructose, and fructose is also sugar, so  moderation and exercise  are the key factors.