Sharing w/others – lessons learned

Over thirty years of treating patients, Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum,  has identified what he says are four types of sugar addicts.

According to Teitelbaum, overdosing your body with sugar can, over the course of months or years, lead to many physical and mental maladies that many don’t realize stem from their diet — including obesity, a weakened immune system, chronic fatigue, hormonal problems and gastrointestinal issues.

ABC News reports:

“For all forms of sugar addiction, Teitelbaum suggests cutting back on sugar (and/or replacing it with sugar-free alternatives), cutting out excess caffeine intake, eating more whole, unprocessed foods, and getting enough sleep.” PostID=271610″

The consumption of large amounts of sugar could increase your risk for heart disease, according to a recent study. People who eat more added sugar are also more likely to have higher triglycerides and lower levels of protective HDL cholesterol, both of which are risk factors for heart disease.

U.S. food companies are being encouraged to make their products healthier as newly passed U.S. health reform legislation focuses on ways to prevent disease.

Reuters states that:

“The addition of sweeteners to prepared foods and beverages in recent decades has sharply increased Americans’ daily intake of sugar and overall calories …”

The American Beverage Association, however, still claims that sugar-sweetened drinks do not pose a health risk. PostID=262386″

Refined sugars and high-fructose corn syrup are considered by many experts to be the biggest contributors to obesity and poor health in Western civilization.  In her book What To Eat, Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition at NYU, suggests that any food that contains more than 15 grams of sugar per serving is closer to dessert than anything else.

Here’s the sugar content of a few common foods and menu items:

1.      Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut — 10 grams

2.      Ben & Jerry’s vanilla ice cream — 16 grams

3.      Starbucks caffè latte grande (16 oz) — 17 grams

4.      Subway 6″ sweet onion teriyaki chicken sandwich — 17 grams

5.      Tropicana 100 percent orange juice (8 oz) — 25 grams

6.      Yoplait original yogurt — 27 grams

7.      Craisins dried cranberries 1/3 cup — 29 grams

8.      Vitamin Water (20 oz bottle) — 33 g

9.      Oscar Mayer Lunchables crackers, turkey & American cheese — 36 grams

10.  Coca-Cola Classic 12 oz can — 39 grams

11.  California Pizza Kitchen Thai chicken salad — 45 g

12.  Jamba Juice blackberry bliss 16 oz — 49 g

13.  Odwalla SuperFood 450 ml bottle — 50 g

14.  Starbucks caffe vanilla frappuccino grande (16 oz) — 58 g

Foods we recognize as dessert (e.g. doughnuts, ice cream, cookies) often have far less sugar than things we consider “healthy” (e.g. juice, yogurt, dried fruit).  Dessert is sometimes hidden in things like sandwiches.  Some foods marketed to children aren’t much better than soda.  “Natural” foods can have lots of sugar.  And the worst offenders are drinkable. PostID=251638″

Intakes of sugar-sweetened beverages may increase levels of uric acid, a compound linked to decreased kidney function, says a new study.

A cross-sectional analysis of data from almost 16,000 people found that the risk of chronic kidney disease increased by over 150 percent in those who more than one soda per day and had high levels of uric acid.

The metabolization of fructose leads to increased production of uric acid, a compound linked to kidney disease when detected in high levels. PostID=249957″

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