Too much sugar can worsen your vision. It impacts your vision by resulting in high blood sugar levels which damage the tiny blood vessels of the retina at the back of the eye. If this damage remains untreated, it can lead to vision loss and blindness. You should be checked for diabetic retinopathy immediately if you’re diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Treating diabetic vision loss can repair damage to the eye and even prevent blindness in most people if caught early. Treatment includes laser therapy, surgery, and injections.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:41 Sugar can damage your eyes.
1:55 Diabetic people are at increased risk of cataracts.
3:38 If diabetes cuts off your vision, it’s actually because blood is filling the inside of your eye.
5:28 There’s no treatment for diabetic vision loss.
7:00 Outro

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Sugar can activate the same reward system as when you take drugs. When you try to cut sugar out of your diet, your body goes through withdrawals because it misses that dopamine rush. It can case difficulty sleeping, cravings, trouble focusing, and moodiness. Too much sugar can result in high blood pressure, inflammation, weight gain, diabetes, and fatty liver disease. If you have diabetes, eating too much sugar can also lead to kidney damage.

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Gurmar (also known as gymnema) has been used for thousands of years to try to diabetes. Research shows strong potential to possibly lower blood sugar levels. A study concluded that reducing blood sugar after a meal results in a decrease in average blood sugar levels over time. This could help decrease long-term complications in diabetes.

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Melody Trice tells Steve Harvey about beating her food addiction.

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Sugar is probably America’s favorite addictive substance. It’s no secret that Americans regularly consume an excess amount of sugar, and this has led to increased rates of heart disease, obesity, and diabetes. More recently, however, low-carb and low sugar diets (like the ketogenic diet) have risen to popularity, causing people to drastically cut their sugar intake. We’re not saying this is a bad thing, but reducing the amount of sugar in your diet can cause withdrawal symptoms.

The Presence Of Sugar In Your Diet

Sugar is tricky because so many natural sugars that exist in fruits and vegetables are beneficial for your health. When it comes to sugar, however, nutritionists often discuss why you should eliminate the refined or added sugars (think bread, soda, or processed foods) from your diet. These sugars include high fructose corn syrup, table sugar, or artificial sweeteners like aspartame. When you eat these foods, you trigger the release of dopamine, which is a neurotransmitter that controls the reward centers in the brain. As your sugar tolerance builds, you have to consume more sugary foods to yield the same sensation of pleasure. This can lead you down the path of sugar addiction, even if you are unaware of how it controls your taste buds and behavior.

Cutting sugar from your diet can lead to some unpleasant withdrawal symptoms, including migraines, fatigue, and bloating, just to name a few. You shouldn’t let these symptoms block your path toward a healthier diet and lifestyle. There are several steps you can take to beat these symptoms and overcome sugar withdrawal with ease.

Identifying The Symptoms Of Sugar Withdrawal

Detoxing from sugar can induce unpleasant physical and mental symptoms, and each person can react differently to the absence of sugar in his or her diet. The severity of the symptoms typically depends on how much sugar you were regularly consuming, and for how long you consumed it. Symptoms can worsen at certain times of the day and you may find that stress can trigger or worsen symptoms.

Mental Symptoms

Eliminating sugar from your diet can cause different mental or emotional symptoms. Depression, anxiety, difficulty focusing, sleep troubles, nervousness, and irritability are all common when you eliminate sugar from your diet.

Physical Symptoms

As far as physical symptoms go, headache is the most common sign of detoxing from sugar. It is also possible for you to feel lazy, dizzy, nauseous, fatigued, or experience cravings for other foods like bread, pasta, and chips.

The Cleveland Clinic says that you can break your sugar addiction in 10 days! Let’s do it!

How To Beat The Symptoms

Quit Cold Turkey

You should cut sugar out of your diet as if you were ripping off a bandage. There’s no use in doing it slowly because it is more painful that way. Studies have shown that gradually eliminating sugar from your diet can make the symptoms stick around for a lot longer than they need to. Quitting sugar cold turkey can lead to more intense symptoms, but for a reduced amount of time. Cutting out sugar all at once can help your body become accustomed to living without it more quickly.

Increase Dietary Fiber

People who eliminate sugar from their diet commonly experience cravings for unhealthy foods. Keep yourself full between meals by eating foods that are rich in fiber. Not only does fiber help to stabilize blood sugar levels, but it also helps to keep you energized and full, avoiding symptoms like nausea or headaches. Several high-fiber foods include legumes, vegetables, and nuts and seeds.

Stay Hydrated

If your stomach continues to growl throughout the day, chances are that you aren’t drinking enough water. Drinking a glass of high quality H20 often solves this uncomfortable feeling. Thirst can be confused with hunger, so keep yourself hydrated to squash any unhealthy cravings that may arise. If you want a sugary bar or dessert, drink a glass of water first and wait 30 minutes to see if you really wanted it or if you were just thirsty.

Eat More Protein

Reduce your cravings for sugary foods by adding more protein to your diet. You don’t have to go out and become a savage carnivore because many plant-based foods contain lots of protein. Click here to see which plant-based foods have high protein content. More protein in your diet helps to decrease levels of ghrelin, which is the hunger hormone, and protein helps maintain normal blood sugar levels.

Exercise

Since you will most likely be a little frustrated that you can’t consume sugar anymore, blow off that steam in the form of exercise. Not only does exercise help to reduce stress, but it also works to combat fatigue and stress-induced cravings. A 2015 study found that short bouts of moderate exercise helped to reduce sugar cravings.

Eat Bitter Foods

Shut down your sugar cravings by eating bitter foods. These foods will shut down the receptors in the brain that crave sugar. Bitter foods like arugula, kale, radicchio, watercress, endive, dandelion, frisee, bitter melon, seaweed, miso paste, and broccoli help regulate blood sugar levels and curb the symptoms of a sugar detox. 

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It’s no secret that a lot of people have a weakness for sweets. When you eat sugar, you are only left wanting more of it. Whether your poison is soda, cake, candy, chocolate, or sweetened coffee drinks that are popular during the holidays, sugar can take a toll on your health and ultimately put you at risk of developing health conditions like diabetes, obesity, or heart disease.

It’s important to know that sugar in processed foods and candy is much different than the sugar, which naturally occurs in fruits and vegetables. The sugar you get from an apple is most definitely not the same sugar that’s in a chocolate bar. To help kick your sugar cravings to the curb, we have some great tips. We recommend implementing 2-3 of these at a time and not doing them all at once. If you feel like doing all 5, then more power to you!

#1: Scare Yourself Away From Sugar

Sugar may not look like a fire-breathing dragon, but there are definitely reasons to be scared of it. This means informing yourself about what sugar does to the body. When you eat a lot of sugar, your pancreas and liver become stressed, inflammation around joints can occur, and you can develop diabetes and cancer. Too much sugar can stress you out and interrupt proper hormonal function. Plus, high sugar intake can lead to obesity and depression, both of which are major health conditions in America. Are you scared of sugar yet?

#2: Get Excited About Healthy Food

It can be hard to trick yourself into going on a diet. Don’t go on a diet; rather, think of it as embarking on a healthier lifestyle. Start making smoothies in the morning with fresh fruits and vegetables. Eat superfoods like chia seeds, avocados, and snack on almonds or walnuts. Start buying more produce items that you aren’t used to and learn how awesome they are.

#3: Drink a Lot of Water

It’s important to understand that sugar cravings are usually because the body is deficient in something. Most people don’t drink the recommended 8-10 glasses of water every day to stay properly hydrated. If you are dehydrated, you can crave sugar. A great way to drink a lot of water is to carry around a stainless steel thermos so you can refill it all day.

#4: Get Plenty of Sleep

Sleep is one of the best ways for your body to recuperate and repair itself. It is recommended that you get 7-8 hours of sleep every night to stay healthy. A refreshed, well-rested person is less likely to reach for sugary treats throughout the day. Someone who is constantly tired will reach for sweets and unhealthy snacks because they don’t have the mental clarity to make healthy choices.

#5: Do A Cleanse

The time after Thanksgiving is the perfect time to do a cleanse. When you take part in our Full Body Cleanse, you’ll be eliminating sugar, processed foods, meat, dairy, and caffeine from your diet. It is a drastic change from what you’re used to, but it’ll definitely help curb your sugar addiction. The sugar you’ll be getting will be from fresh fruits and raw nut butters. If you cleanse now, you’ll be able to show off your slimmer, healthier body to your family when you see them over the holidays.

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Sometimes it’s easy to just reach for that bag of chips, package of cookies, or any other processed food when your child is hungry. Maybe they are crying at the grocery because they want fruit roll-up snacks and you give in to make them stop. The truth is that many of these foods have cancer-causing ingredients, among other chemicals that can be detrimental to a child’s future health.

Healthy snacks are important for a child. If children can discern what is healthy and what isn’t at a young age, this conditions them to make healthy choices throughout their lives. It may require a little more effort (and you may have to put up with some crying), but it will benefit them in the long run. The following are the five cancer-causing snacks you should never feed your kids.

#1: Pop Tarts

Don’t let the “Baked with Real Fruit” note entice you. Read the nutrition and ingredient labels and you’ll find that you can’t pronounce most of the ingredients. Corn syrup, soybeans, palm oil, dextrose, high fructose corn syrup, and artificial flavors have all been linked to sugar addiction, diabetes, and liver problems in children. Even that “real fruit” is sprayed with pesticides and grown with GMOs. Don’t be fooled by these!

#2: Goldfish

Goldfish are common in many households. They are said to be made with “whole grains” and “real cheddar,” but look at the bag or carton to see why they should be out of your kid’s diet. So many nutrients are eliminated in the processing of these Goldfish that they have to be enriched with fake nutrients that the body can’t properly absorb. Finally, we have the vegetable oils. After being heated to unsafe temperatures, these oils are treated with petroleum solvents. Then they are colored to make the odor more pleasant.

#3: Teddy Grahams

These little bear snacks are laced with the chemical preservative, TBHQ, which has been linked to stomach cancer in lab rats, fragment DNA, and can damage human lung and umbilical cells. Kids who eat these snacks can develop ADHD, anxiety, and symptoms of restlessness.

#4: Kid Cuisine

These frozen meals appeal to kids because they are often adorned with the newest cartoon movie characters. Corn, macaroni & cheese, chocolate pudding, and chicken nuggets do not equate to a nutritious meal. Everything in this box is processed and filled with GMOs. Read the label to discover all the trans fats, hydrogenated oils, Red 40, Blue 1 & 2, and Yellow 6, among a bunch of other chemicals. These microwave meals may save time in the kitchen, but it can shave time off life in the long run.

#5: Fruit Snacks

You may want to lower your expectation on the “fruit” aspect of this snack. A package of these is not the same as an apple, not by a long shot. The most commonly used color in these fruit gummies is Red 3 or erythrosine. This chemical is unsafe to use on your skin, yet it is ok to put inside your body? Just saying…

It’s always best to know what you are putting inside your bodies, especially when it comes to the health and future of your children. While healthy eating may require a bit more effort, it is worth it in the long run.

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Sugar addiction is a major problem in the U.S.

The term ‘sugar’ is a general one. Today, there are numerous umbrella terms to identify sugar. However, we must not forget that Nature produces sugar (true fructose). The sugars or sweeteners Nature provides are not harmful because they are balanced sugars – balanced with nutrients! Mother’s milk or breast milk is sweet, but it contains nutrients and thus is balanced. Same thing with maple syrup – it contains balanced nutrients.

Sugar is really not the problem. It is unstable and isolated sugars that are man-made, processed or refined that are problematic. During sugar’s processing, it turns from a sticky black substance to a clear juice that is heated to remove impurities and after this process it is then bleached ‘white’ with chemicals.

More than 70% of the sugars we consume are hidden in the foods we eat and beverages we drink. The types of sugar that is doing the serious harm our health are known as:

• Sucrose
• Glucose
• Dextrose
• Maltose
• Brown sugar
• Malitol
• Isomol
• Sorbitol
• Mannitol
• Xylitol
• Corn syrup
• High fructose corn syrup
• Fructose
• Cane sugar
• Turbinado sugar
• Sugar cane crystals (or cane crystals)
• Evaporated cane juice
• Succinate
• Demerara sugar
• Natural milled cane sugar
• Dried cane juice
• Granulated cane juice
• Milled cane sugar
• Plantation white sugar
• Raw cane juice
• Molasses
• Muscovado sugar
• Unrefined cane sugar
• Barley malt
• Rice syrup
• Fruit juice concentrate
• Granular fruit sugar
• Aspartame
• Saccharin
• NutraSweet
• Sweet N’ Low
• Equal
• Yellow-D sugar.

According to the Agricultural Marketing Research Center, most refined sugar comes from sugar beets and sugar cane. Roughly 75% of sugar comes from sugar cane, about 23.5% comes from sugar beet production, and the remaining come from sources like corn, corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup.

Sugar is EVERYWHERE!

A 2009 US News Health report revealed that sugar-bingeing plays a major role in metabolic changes in the American population and in the exploding obesity rates. In part, here’s what the report found:

“Added sugars, which are sprinkled on and processed into packaged foods and beverages, have become all too common in the American diet, says the American Heart Association. The group argues that sugar bingeing is helping drive the uptick in metabolic changes in the American population, including the exploding obesity rate, and has now recommended an upper limit on daily consumption. Women should consume no more than 100 calories per day of added sugars, and men should not top 150 calories per day. One 12-ounce can contains about 8 teaspoons or about 33 grams of added sugar, which equals approximately 130 calories. One gram of sugar serves up 4 calories, according to the American Dietetic Association. With math like that, it’s not surprising that the average American rings up an average of 22.2 teaspoons, or 355 calories per day, of added sugars, mostly from sugar-sweetened beverages. But those who shun sweet-tasting drinks are not off the hook. Part of the challenge of avoiding added sugars, argues the AHA, is that they have become far more prevalent over time; the amount of added sugars in Americans’ food options increased 19 percent between 1970 and 2005.”

Sugar and Disease

Sugar plays a role in a host of diseases. In fact, diabetes used to be called ‘sugar diabetes.’ Sugar is also implicated in heart disease, candida albicans, kidney failure, cancer, tooth decay, pancreas disorders, obesity, excess and unhealthy weight gain, neurological disorders, menstrual complaints, glaucoma, hypoglycemia, mood swings, depression, and headaches.

Healing Sugar Addiction Naturally

When we consume sugar, the body goes into overdrive because sugar contains little to no nutrition. It is a simple carbohydrate.

When we consume sugar (especially simple sugars), it greatly taxes the body. The body uses stored nutrition in our bodies to process the sugar. In effect, sugar (regardless of whether it’s natural or man-made) robs our body of nutrition.

To overcome or heal from sugar addiction, the body needs nutrition: minerals, trace elements, vitamins and B-vitamins, amino acids (protein), and essential fatty acids and the best sources of these vital nutrients are live foods, living foods (raw foods), especially fruits and vegetables.

Incorporate more live foods into your daily diet. Drink vegetable juice as much as you can. Vegetable juice is 100% liquid nutrition, especially if the veggies are organic.

Always opt for complex sugars over simple sugars.

There are also herbs that can assist with naturally kicking the sugar habit. These herbs include Gymnema sylvestre, Stevia, Licorice Root, Cinnamon, Jambul Seed, Bilberry leaf, and Guava Leaf. These herbs are useful for healing problems of obesity and pancreas complaints (i.e. diabetes and hypoglycemia).

Gymnema sylvestre (also known as ‘Gurmar’), which literally means “Destroyer of Sugar“is also known to be very helpful in breaking a sugar addiction. Licorice root is an effective herb to help regulate blood sugar levels. It has a mildly natural sweet taste. Jambul seed is effective in reducing the amount of sugar in the urine.

Healthy Sugar Alternatives

There are also natural sugar alternatives (natural sweeteners) available today, including:

• Maple syrup contains a moderate amount of nutrients that make maple syrup very beneficial for health purposes.
• Stevia (Stevia raubadiana), a plant, is 200 times naturally sweeter than sugar and without the adverse side effects of sugar (sucrose, white table sugar). Stevia works best in tea compounds and gives herbal teas a naturally sweet taste.
• Agave nectar is 1.4 to 1.6 times sweeter than traditional sugar. It’s extracted from several species of the agave plant (the same plant that produces tequila). It’s an excellent vegan alternative to honey when cooking.

Satisfy Cravings Naturally

If you have a craving for sugar or something sweet, consider something naturally given or provided for in Nature and that has not been refined or processed by man; or if it has been processed by man (into a product) make sure it still contains nutrients for purposes of nutrition.

Here is a list of naturally sweet foods that can suffice a sugar craving:

• Raisins
• Black currants
• Figs
• Dates
• Most raw fruit: i.e. banana, watermelon, orange, peach, mango, etc.
• Dried fruit (unsulfured)
• Carob

Dherbs Solutions

Dherbs products that are helpful to people trying to stop sugar addiction:

• Full Body Cleanse
• Sugar Formula
• Pancreas Aid
• Electric Greens Combo

This article is compliments of Dherbs.com.

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