Enjoying those tasty gummy bears? They are delicious for sure, but they can cause serious damage to your health over time. It's easy to reach for sugar when you're bored or hungry, but you better believe your body needs other nutrients instead.

It's up to us to learn how to cut the sugar and not treat our bodies like a garbage disposal. Yes, sugar tastes great, but it can have serious health consequences. It's best to limit your health intake and instead focus on a healthy low carb diet such as the ketogenic diet.

The keto diet is known to help people lose weight, improve their metabolism, and the list goes on and on. The Body Reboot book tells us that once our body is in ketosis (which means a body converts fat into energy instead of using carbs) there are several benefits you'll experience that will change your life for the better. Now let's learn how sugar (which comes from carbs) can cause lead to serious health problems:

Fatty Livers

Here’s another reason to reduce sugar intake. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is on the rise in the U.S. And guess what’s largely to blame? Sugar! High-fructose corn syrup hiding out in drinks and processed foods has been called a “weapon of mass destruction.”

Leaky Gut & Other Metabolic Diseases

Is sugar bad, particularly when it comes to the gut? You bet. Knowing that the microorganisms that live in gut actually act similarly to a metabolic “organ,” researchers now believe sugar changes the gut microbiota in a way that increases intestinal permeability, AKA leaky gut symptoms.

A Diabetes-Prone Body

A 2013 study published in the journal PLOS ONE found for every 150 calories of sugar a person consumes a day (about the equivalent of a can of soda), they increase their risk of type 2 diabetes by 1.1 percent. This increased risk held true even considering researchers adjusted for the other types of foods people eat (including , meat, oils, cereals, high-fiber foods, oils).

A Number of Cancers

Does sugar impact cancer risk? When the National Institutes of Health set out to investigate sugar’s link to 24 different cancers, they didn’t find tons of published research, noting more is needed. But the were able to find some associations between different types of sugar and certain cancers.

In conclusion, to confirm what the above article from Dr. Axe already states, sugar is really bad for you. Added sugar can increase a risk of an earth death and it also can cause non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, increase your risk of heart disease, and it also impacts brain function! That's not all, either. It's pretty scary!

Luckily by switching to a healthy diet such as the keto diet, you can focus on cutting out the carbs and sugar and instead eat what your body craves: healthy food that'll give your body the energy it needs.

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