Water or Sugar Water: Which Would You Drink For Survival?

Would you survive longer on a diet of just water OR on a diet of water and refined sugar?

The answer: You would survive longer on just water.

Sound unlikely?

How can sugar be worse than nothing? Good question, keep reading!

Plainly put, refined sugar is an anti-nutrient.

It starts out as sugar cane. It then goes through a refining process that destroys all of its enzymes, fiber, vitamins and minerals.

What’s left?  EMPTY CALORIES!

The problem is that your body needs the enzymes, fiber, vitamins and minerals that were taken out in the refining process in order to metabolize sugar and use it as energy.

So instead, it takes those nutrients from your own body. Take away message is that sugar drains vital nutrients from your body.

Some other things about sugar to consider:
Sugar creates false hunger. You overeat as a result of the insulin rush and then ensuing plummet in your blood sugar levels.  This means a constant struggle with your weight in which you never seem to achieve your ideal size.

Sugar promotes aging because insulin levels are consistently elevated as a result of eating too much sugar. Sugar has even been dubbed the negative fountain of youth.

Sugar weakens your bones, making you vulnerable to osteoporosis, and weakens your teeth, making you vulnerable to cavities (both due to the calcium being pulled from your bones and teeth in order for your body to process sugar).

Sugar in excess is stored as fat. After your liver has no more room to store it, sugar is converted to fat and deposited on your belly, thighs, hips and the backs of your arms.

Sugar can impair brain function as a result of depleted B-vitamin production.

Metabolizing all those empty sugar calories takes its toll!
If you’re still not convinced of the sugar’s detriments, here are more ailments linked to its overconsumption: varicose veins, constipation, hormonal imbalances, ADD and ADHD, increased emotional instability, depressed immune system, increased risk of cancer and degenerative diseases.

The average modern person consumes 46 teaspoons of sugar every day. That comes out to roughly 175 pounds of sugar each year.

And it’s no wonder. The sugar industry is big business. They’ll add sugar to any product that they can.

Go through the foods in your cupboards and you’ll see that sugar has been added to everything from ketchup to crackers, oatmeal, peanut butter and even so called healthy items like energy bars.

What choices do you have?

You determine the foods that you eat and the foods that you avoid.

While many other foods offer you caloric energy PLUS some nutritional benefit, sugar doesn’t. Sugar is simply caloric energy with a habit forming taste, and a plethora of health risks.

Use your judgment wisely and limit your sugar consumption. Enjoy the benefits of living a low sugar lifestyle!

While you’re looking at labels for sugar content, the following names all describe refined sugar:
Sucrose
High fructose corn syrup
Fructose
Lactose
Organic sugar
Maltose
Dextrose
Glucose