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Can Eating Sugar Really Make You Age Faster?

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Sugar covered lips
In the case of insulin resistance, the cells are down-regulating their insulin receptors, and therefore they are less responsive to it in the blood stream. However, even if the cells are resistant to the messages of insulin, you body still requires something to happen to the sugar floating in your blood, so your pancreas begins to secrete higher and higher amounts of insulin in order to achieve the same results. This is where the trouble really begins.

An over abundance of insulin in the human body has numerous detrimental effects:

  • Decreases the cellular uptake of vitamin C. (A blood sugar level of 120 reduces the phagocytic index by 75%. The phagocytic index is a measure of how rapidly an immune cell can destroy a virus, bacteria, or cancel cell.)

  • Your cells become resistant to magnesium, which causes your blood vessels to constrict, which causes your blood pressure to rise.

  • It raises triglyceride, and LDL levels

  • It leads to coronary artery disease (CAD) by causing blood to clot to readily, the conversion of macrophages into foam cells, constriction of arteries, and stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system. Not to mention the fact that it interferes with vitamin C uptake.

  • It causes dyslipidemia i.e. Increased triglycerides, decreased HDL and increased LDL.

  • Syndrome X (HBP, high cholesterol, Insulin resistance)

  • Promotes acne

  • Early menarche

  • Certain epithelial cell carcinomas (cancer)

  • Myopia (near-sightedness)

  • Cutaneous papillomas (skin tags)

  • Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)

  • Male vertex balding.

Now the Million dollar question: What do I do about insulin?

The answer in its simplest form is; stop eating sugar! O.K., O.K. I know for most people this solution sounds easier than it is. So what are some more -- reasonable -- steps one can take to reign in insulin levels?

The first distinction to make is identifying the primary sources of sugar in your diet. Liquid Sugar Recently, a report, came out detailing that the average American diet consists of 1/3 calories from sugar! That means that 1 out of every 3 calories that you eat in a day has no positive nutritive value, and even more it can lead to many of the health challenges detailed above.

Another detail reported in the report was that a large number of these calories from sugar come in liquid form, soda, juice, etc. And despite the commercials to the contrary, high fructose corn syrup in not good for you, at the least it is equal to regular sugar, and in reality there is evidence that it could be worse for your insulin levels.

White Flour Another important point to consider is that white flour is basically sugar. Much of it turns into simple sugar before it even hits your stomach. So In reality you can view any white flour the same as eating straight sugar, and compounding the issue, sugar usually accompanies white flour. What about maple syrup, honey, brown sugar, raw sugar? In short, they are all still sugar and your body still needs to deal with it when it enters your blood stream by releasing insulin.

Yes, they do break down a little slower, so in that respect they don't cause for as rapid of an insulin dump, but insulin has to be produced anyway.

Artificial sweeteners, NutraSweet, Splenda, etc.? JUST SAY NO! Links to more info: NutraSweet: http://doctorellisor.com/nutrition/thebad/nutrasweet.
Splenda: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2000/12/03/sucralose-dangers.aspx

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