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Some experts warn sugar is toxic

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    Serious new warnings about sugar consumption

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-- on some seriously the warnings about sugar consumption.

Recent studies suggest it could be as dangerous as poison an elegant way too much sugar in our diets doctor -- sugar sugar sugar too much right.

Eric we are having three times the amount of sugar than we had fifty years ago this is a huge problem.

And it's actually a form of addiction because it causes.

You do crave it because it it leads to an increase hormone in the brain called -- just like drug addiction -- just like alcohol does.

-- need more and more and more and we hide it in corn syrup.

We hide it and processed sugar we -- -- and all the sweeps week.

Then it gets into the body and the liver converts it into something called LDL cholesterol and it clogs the coronary arteries you get heart attack she gets strokes.

You get -- you get diabetes so all the problems are in the trading in the office I don't want more patients are but I get them because of sugar and you -- to the point it's hidden if you delicate ingredients that cereal boxes and -- -- -- copper and -- bet it's true it's.

And every -- that we -- we're taking a 130 pounds.

130 pounds of sugar today a year and that's ridiculous so we're taking a lot of -- and as mark mentioned.

When you have loads of sugar coming in to level up is selling goes off.

And there are some is so interceptors.

That can cause increasing colon cancer and breast cancer innings having growth factors.

Where as you mentioned there's also the reward system in our brain.

That gives you that euphoria you crave more the more of these -- you take.

You want more and that's really dangerous and finally decreasing cholesterol and heart disease so the recommendation by American heart disease.

Is that marriage should take less than a hundred.

Calories a day and women should take about the same almost a 10250.

And that says we're taking too much.

Put to shoot it down and that's going to really help -- a lot.

Right -- bats -- fruits that much shorter time does go forward look at those cereal box ratings and I was -- yesterday actually did that doctors thank you so much enjoy the week that's where there.

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