Don't Get Fruct' Up This Holiday Season.

Between Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas, you could be consuming pounds of Sucrose (table sugar), Dextrose (corn sugar), or High Fructose Corn Syrup. Refined sugar contains no fiber, no minerals, no proteins, no fats, no enzymes, only empty calories. But, you still get fat!


In the early 1900’s sugar consumption in the U.S. was around 15 to 20 pounds per year, per person. Today, the average person will consume his or her bodyweight in sugar and up to 20 pounds in Corn Syrup! Consumption like this is costing Americans over $54 billion a year in dental bills. You may think eating your bodyweight in sugar is high, but consider the fact that there are a lot of people who do not eat sugar at all, or people who are conscious of what they are eating. This means that there are people out there who have to make up for those people and are consuming almost twice their bodyweight (which probably isn’t a low number) in sugar.

What happens when you eat a refined carbohydrate like sugar?

Your body must borrow vital nutrients from healthy cells to metabolize the incomplete food. Calcium, sodium, potassium and magnesium are taken from various parts of the body to make use of the sugar. Many times, so much calcium is used to neutralize the effects of sugar that the bones become osteoporotic due to the withdrawn calcium. Likewise, the teeth are affected and they lose their components until decay occurs and hastens their loss. Being that refined sugar is void of all nutrients, it causes the body to deplete its own stores of various vitamins, minerals and enzymes. If sugar consumption is continued, an over-acid condition results, and more minerals are needed from deep in the body to correct the imbalance. If the body is lacking the nutrients used to metabolize sugar, it will not be able to properly handle and rid itself of the poisonous residues. These wastes accumulate through the brain and nervous system, which speeds up cellular death. Sugar also makes the blood very thick and sticky, inhibiting much of the blood flow into the smaller capillaries that supply our gums and teeth with vital nutrients. Therefore, we wind up with diseased gums and starving teeth. America and England, the two largest sugar consumers, have horrendous dental problems.

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The big question, does sugar contribute to one of America’s biggest health problems, obesity?

Let’s first look at the facts on obesity in the U.S. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Approximately 30% of the US population is obese. This percentage has increased from 13% in the 60’s. According to Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, if this continues, by 2015 75% of our adults and 26% of our children will be obese or overweight.

In the past, fat was the target for U.S. Obesity. But after many years of “cutting the fat” and still having the fat people, there were obvious other places to look. The funny part is (or sad, depending how you look at it), when you eat good fats, it creates satiety. When you cut fat out, or don’t eat fat at all, it creates cravings. Cravings for what you may ask? Sugar! The problem with sugar is that it you’re getting a large amount of calories with a comparatively small amount of food. A tablespoon of sugar contains about 60 calories, with almost no nutritional content. Bringing the national average to over 4,500 empty, unnecessary calories PER WEEK! If this person were to eliminate sugar or even reduce it, he or she would have the potential to lose over one pound per week! Add in some exercise, a nutrition tune-up, this person would be well on his or her way to the body, lifestyle and health they desire and need. Check our website out for more information on proper nutrition and exercise, here.