Poisoning with Sugar By Ms. Prema Kodical. The harmful effects of sugar and how it has become an integral part of our lives and dangers of hidden sugars in everyday food For info log on to www.healthlibrary.com

1. Poisoning
With SugarPresented by
Prema Kodical
Nutritionist/Weight Management Consultant

2. Raw To Refined

3. Types of Sugar
•Overt
•Foods that behave like
sugar – Rice, processed
grains, bread, sweet corn,
alcohol
•Covert/hidden – Artificial
sweeteners

4. So-called Healthy
Foods
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5. Fat-free Foods
• Desserts like pastries, cakes ice cream and
frozen yoghurt
• No fat…but more sugar
• Less of one…more of the other

6. Tricky Food
LabelsDo not get fooled by health
claims on labels
• ‘No sugars’ simply means ‘no sucrose’
• ‘Made with natural sugar’
• ‘Made with whole grains’
• Contains ‘Heart-healthy olive oil or omega-
3 fats’
• ‘No Trans-Fat’
•

7. Biggest Deception
• Advertising that a food is
cholesterol-free
• Meaningless claim if the food
has lot of sugar
• Your body converts sugar to fat
and triglycerides

8. Sugar-free
Foods
Sugar-free foods contain ‘artificial
sweeteners’
Sucralose, Saccharin, Aspartame, High Fructose
Corn Syrup (HFCS), Barley malt syrup, Dextrin,
Glucose, Lactose, Levulose, Lite or Light sugar,
Maltrodextrin, Maltodextrose, Mannitol, Xylitol,
Sorbitol, Maltitol, Mannose, Nectars

9. Artificial Sweeteners
• Triggers low blood sugar
• Stimulates appetite and cravings
• False sense of hunger
• Leads to sugar cravings

10. Deadly Sugars
•Aspartame
•High Fructose Corn
Syrup

11. Aspartame
In large enough amounts :
• Can damage your DNA
• Memory loss
• Depression
• Brain damage
• Vision problems
• Brain tumors
• Insomnia

12. High Fructose Corn Syrup
HFCS is a man-made sweetener that is
cheaper and sweeter than sugar
Made from genetically
modified corn
• Shuts off body’s natural appetite control
switches
• Body doesn’t use fructose as immediate
energy source; it is stored as fat
• Liver tumors
• DNA damage
• Inflammation
• Increased production of free radicals

13. Food Labels
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14. Sugar Is
Poison• Diabetes and other diseases increased as
consumption of refined sugars grew
• The human body cannot handle man-
made sugar
• Refined sugar in significant quantity is
toxic to human bodies
• Sugar evokes a brain chemical Beta –
Endorphin
• Obesity - Insulin Resistance

15. Effects Of Excess
Sugar
• Makes us fat
• Makes the blood acidic
• Arrests the secretion of gastric
juices
• Small intestine becomes inactive
and paralyzed
• Excess sugar eventually affects
every organ of the body

16. Cut Sugar to
• Trim body fat
• Lose weight
• Lower your cholesterol
• Lower triglycerides
• Increase your energy
• Prevent diabetes and related diseases
• Treat diabetes and related diseases
• Achieve optimal wellness

17. Eliminate Sugar
• Eliminate sugary drinks, granola bars
and energy bars
• Avoid refined carbs and reduce
complex carbs
• Avoid canned and processed food
• Avoid ‘low-fat’ and sugar-free foods…have
smaller portions of the regular versions
• Read food labels carefully

18. Changes In Your Diet
• Reduce the sugar you add to tea and
coffee
• Reduce the sugar in recipes..add
spices to boost flavour and taste
• Use healthy sugar substitutes –
jaggery, molasses, pure honey
•
• Balance your carbohydrate intake
with lean protein to control cravings

19. Find out if you are a
sugar addict
• Have you ever tried to cut down or control your use of sweet foods?
• Are you using more sweet foods than ever before?
• Do you get irritable if you do not have your regular dose of sugar?
• Have you ever gotten upset when someone ate your special ‘sweet
food?
• Have you ever lied about how much sweet food you eat?
• Have you ever gone out of your way to get something sweet?
• Have you ever binged?
• Have you ever crawled through the morning with a headache that is
immediately relieved when you have something sweet?
• Is it impossible to just say no to sweet foods?
• Is sugar controlling your life?

20. Steps To Sugar
Detox• Eat breakfast with proteins
• Journal what you eat and how you
feel
• Eat at least three meals a day with
proteins
• Take the recommended vitamins
• Shift from white to brown foods
• Reduce or eliminate sugars

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