New Findings Reveal That Sugar is More Dangerous Than Cigarettes

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Smoking and Death


According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States.
1. Cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States. This is nearly one in five deaths.

2. Smoking causes more deaths each year than the following causes combined:

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
Illegal drug use
Alcohol use
Motor vehicle injuries
Firearm-related incidents
More than 10 times as many U.S. citizens have died prematurely from cigarette smoking than have died in all the wars fought by the United States.

3. Smoking causes about 90% (or 9 out of 10) of all lung cancer deaths.1,2 More women die from lung cancer each year than from breast cancer.

4. Smoking causes about 80% (or 8 out of 10) of all deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

5. Cigarette smoking increases risk for death from all causes in men and women.1
The risk of dying from cigarette smoking has increased over the last 50 years in the U.S.1

Sugar and Death

According to Dr. Scott Olson, there is a growing number of research studies that are demonstrating that there is a connection between the amount of sugar we eat and obesity. How many world-wide deaths are attributable to obesity? The number is 17 million deaths a year. No one dies from being obese, though. Being overweight increases the risks for other diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and even some cancers. Sugar has also been shown to directly cause diabetes and heart disease, even in someone with normal weight.
What are the world-wide deaths from these conditions? Let’s add them up:
Obesity:                17 million deaths
Heart disease:  17 million deaths
Diabetes:                4 million deaths
Total:                     38 million deaths
Now, some of these figures overlap (some obesity deaths may also be due to heart disease or diabetes), so let’s conservatively cut that number in half and use a number of 15 million deaths every year from sugar-related causes. This means that sugar is most likely responsible for three times the number of deaths that cigarettes are, and, yet, we let our children eat the stuff every day.

  In March 2015, the World Health Organisation recommended that individuals should not be consuming more than 6 teaspoons  of sugar a day. According to an article by Jennifer Hayashi. " Recently, research has shown that processed sugar, an ingredient in 80% of our grocery store items, could be the fuel to the United States’ top two causes of death, heart disease, and cancer. Sugar, the thing we sprinkle on our coffee and the reliable cure to our heartbreak, is now directly linked to these diseases, which are more common than chronic respiratory disease".

Composition of Sugar 


  Sugar is composed of glucose and fructose. Glucose acts as the energy source for the body, allowing it to function. Excess glucose is stored as glycogen majorly in the liver, and muscles. Any more excess is stored as fat in fat cells.
 On the other hand, fructose is sent solely to our liver. When there’s too much of it, it immediately gets turned into fat. For an average person who consumes more than 20 teaspoons of sugar a day whereas WHO recommended just six teaspoons of sugar daily but today, processed sugar is in everything we take ranging from drinks, pastries, sweets, biscuits and even the white sugar or cubed sugar we soak in our tea, coffee, etc.   When this occurs over and over again insulin levels rise, fat accumulates in the liver and blood, and the likelihood of obesity, diabetes, and cancer increases. There  is widely-accepted view that high levels of insulin and obesity increase one’s chances of malignant cancer.  Funny enough, the world’s sugar consumption has increased over the past decades, so have the staggering rates of cancer.

Sugar Is More Addictive Than Cocaine 


    According to an article by Jennifer Hayashi. "One study recently examined rats and their preference between cocaine andu sugar. 94% of the time, sugar proved more addictive than cocaine. And when we look at the neuroscience behind sugar in the brain, it’s actually not too surprising.
When humans even see sugar, our brain gets a rush of dopamine, a neurotransmitter in the brain associated with pleasure and taking action towards these pleasurable rewards. Then, when we eat sugar, our natural opioids and beta-endorphins rush to the brain, similar to someone on cocaine or heroin".

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