The no sugar update. 2-1-2016

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

So as you guys no I've been taking things out of my diet like corn and sugar. Here is an update of how that's going.

1. It wasn't a huge jump for me as I cook all of my own food but I just had to make sure I ate no processed foods whatsoever and that my only sugar came from complex carbs and vegetables. I find modern fruit to be waaayyyyy too sugary and not like the sugar we used to eat in the past in nature. The fruit also gives me many side effects from headaches to various stomach related things as well.

2. To add on to cleansing in my body I drink lemon water and some olive oil and that does the trick. Helps me feel "full" and cleans my body out and regulates it. Sugar affects how your body holds water so eliminating this helped a lot as well. Don't find myself as thirsty as before.

3. I tried going to Stevia since it was so highly recommended (and this was raw Stevia) but it caused me body pain and still made me want something sweet so I just dropped it.

4. Brown rice also seems to cause me aches as well. While it has more fiber it's harder to digest than white rice. White rice was giving me problems as well since the body treats it as sugar so I stopped eating that too.

5. My joint pain has gone down tremendously and I don't get the headaches I was once getting. Sugar also weakens your immune system and feeds cancer cells. It's poison and just best to remove. It's also highly addictive and studies find it to be more addictive than cocaine. This is troubling since sugar is so common.

6. My hunger has gone down quite a bit. I can eat breakfast at 5 am or so and be fine until noon. In fact I can split my breakfast in half. I eat lunch and some small meal before bed.

7. Tried some almond butter as a in-between meal but it gives me problems constantly. Trying out cashews right now and I like them.

8. Avocados spiked my blood sugar this weekend. The first time my joints were on fire and the second time I felt tingly. I had to take them back. I had them a year or so ago but I was testing them again. Still a no go.

9. I took red meat out of my diet as it gave me headaches and pain and made me hungry.


Overall not bad. I'll make more updates as I go along.

[WarMachineRhodey]

So what was the motivation to try a no sugar diet? Does your body not process sugars very well?

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

Sugar is very bad for you and is one of the worst things people eat (especially in America) along with Gluten, Corn, Milk, etc. It's all over the place and has a list of side effects such as inflammation which is one of the things that bothered me. In fact I didn't have joint pain until late 2013 when I started consuming more of it.

People who go without sugar feel the same things I mention. They feel much better all around with less pain and sickness. When they try sugar again they feel sick.

Your body needs glucose to function but you can get that from complex carbs and vegetables. Fructose isn't handled the same way and is processed in your liver and messes with your insulin. When you consume this sugar your body releases excess insulin to "clean" it up. This leaves you with low blood sugar and you get a crash. Stopping sugar has many similarities to hangovers actually.

Here's a list of the problems with sugar here.

rheumatic.org/sugar.htm


1. Sugar can suppress the immune system.
2. Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in the body.
3. Sugar can cause hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and crankiness in children.
4. Sugar can produce a significant rise in triglycerides.
5. Sugar contributes to the reduction in defense against bacterial infection (infectious diseases).
6. Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function, the more sugar you eat the more elasticity and function you loose.
7. Sugar reduces high density lipoproteins.
8. Sugar leads to chromium deficiency.
9 Sugar leads to cancer of the ovaries.
10. Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose.
11. Sugar causes copper deficiency.
12. Sugar interferes with absorption of calcium and magnesium.
13. Sugar can weaken eyesight.
14. Sugar raises the level of a neurotransmitters: dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine.
15. Sugar can cause hypoglycemia.
16. Sugar can produce an acidic digestive tract.
17. Sugar can cause a rapid rise of adrenaline levels in children.
18. Sugar malabsorption is frequent in patients with functional bowel disease.
19. Sugar can cause premature aging.
20. Sugar can lead to alcoholism.
21. Sugar can cause tooth decay.
22. Sugar contributes to obesity
23. High intake of sugar increases the risk of Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis.
24. Sugar can cause changes frequently found in person with gastric or duodenal ulcers.
25. Sugar can cause arthritis.
26. Sugar can cause asthma.
27. Sugar greatly assists the uncontrolled growth of Candida Albicans (yeast infections).
28. Sugar can cause gallstones.
29. Sugar can cause heart disease.
30. Sugar can cause appendicitis.
31. Sugar can cause multiple sclerosis.
32. Sugar can cause hemorrhoids.
33. Sugar can cause varicose veins.
34. Sugar can elevate glucose and insulin responses in oral contraceptive users.
35. Sugar can lead to periodontal disease.
36. Sugar can contribute to osteoporosis.
37. Sugar contributes to saliva acidity.
38. Sugar can cause a decrease in insulin sensitivity.
39. Sugar can lower the amount of Vitamin E (alpha-Tocopherol in the blood.
40. Sugar can decrease growth hormone.
41. Sugar can increase cholesterol.
42. Sugar can increase the systolic blood pressure.
43. Sugar can cause drowsiness and decreased activity in children.
44. High sugar intake increases advanced glycation end products (AGEs)(Sugar bound non-enzymatically to protein)
45. Sugar can interfere with the absorption of protein.
46. Sugar causes food allergies.
47. Sugar can contribute to diabetes.
48. Sugar can cause toxemia during pregnancy.
49. Sugar can contribute to eczema in children.
50. Sugar can cause cardiovascular disease.
51. Sugar can impair the structure of DNA
52. Sugar can change the structure of protein.
53. Sugar can make our skin age by changing the structure of collagen.
54. Sugar can cause cataracts.
55. Sugar can cause emphysema.
56. Sugar can cause atherosclerosis.
57. Sugar can promote an elevation of low density lipoproteins (LDL).
58. High sugar intake can impair the physiological homeostasis of many systems in the body.
59. Sugar lowers the enzymes ability to function.
60. Sugar intake is higher in people with Parkinson’s disease.
61. Sugar can cause a permanent altering the way the proteins act in the body.
62. Sugar can increase the size of the liver by making the liver cells divide.
63. Sugar can increase the amount of liver fat.
64. Sugar can increase kidney size and produce pathological changes in the kidney.
65. Sugar can damage the pancreas.
66. Sugar can increase the body's fluid retention.
67. Sugar is enemy #1 of the bowel movement.
68. Sugar can cause myopia (nearsightedness).
69. Sugar can compromise the lining of the capillaries.
70. Sugar can make the tendons more brittle.
71. Sugar can cause headaches, including migraine.
72. Sugar plays a role in pancreatic cancer in women.
73. Sugar can adversely affect school children's grades and cause learning disorders..
74. Sugar can cause an increase in delta, alpha, and theta brain waves.
75. Sugar can cause depression.
76. Sugar increases the risk of gastric cancer.
77. Sugar and cause dyspepsia (indigestion).
78. Sugar can increase your risk of getting gout.
79. Sugar can increase the levels of glucose in an oral glucose tolerance test over the ingestion of complex carbohydrates.
80. Sugar can increase the insulin responses in humans consuming high-sugar diets compared to low sugar diets.
81 High refined sugar diet reduces learning capacity.
82. Sugar can cause less effective functioning of two blood proteins, albumin, and lipoproteins, which may reduce the body’s ability to handle fat and cholesterol.
83. Sugar can contribute to Alzheimer’s disease.
84. Sugar can cause platelet adhesiveness.
85. Sugar can cause hormonal imbalance; some hormones become underactive and others become overactive.
86. Sugar can lead to the formation of kidney stones.
87. Sugar can lead to the hypothalamus to become highly sensitive to a large variety of stimuli.
88. Sugar can lead to dizziness.
89. Diets high in sugar can cause free radicals and oxidative stress.
90. High sucrose diets of subjects with peripheral vascular disease significantly increases platelet adhesion.
91. High sugar diet can lead to biliary tract cancer.
92. Sugar feeds cancer.
93. High sugar consumption of pregnant adolescents is associated with a twofold increased risk for delivering a small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infant.
94. High sugar consumption can lead to substantial decrease in gestation duration among adolescents.
95. Sugar slows food's travel time through the gastrointestinal tract.
96. Sugar increases the concentration of bile acids in stools and bacterial enzymes in the colon. This can modify bile to produce cancer-causing compounds and colon cancer.
97. Sugar increases estradiol (the most potent form of naturally occurring estrogen) in men.
98. Sugar combines and destroys phosphatase, an enzyme, which makes the process of digestion more difficult.
99. Sugar can be a risk factor of gallbladder cancer.
100. Sugar is an addictive substance.
101. Sugar can be intoxicating, similar to alcohol.
102. Sugar can exacerbate PMS.
103. Sugar given to premature babies can affect the amount of carbon dioxide they produce.
104. Decrease in sugar intake can increase emotional stability.
105. The body changes sugar into 2 to 5 times more fat in the bloodstream than it does starch.
106. The rapid absorption of sugar promotes excessive food intake in obese subjects.
107. Sugar can worsen the symptoms of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
108. Sugar adversely affects urinary electrolyte composition.
109. Sugar can slow down the ability of the adrenal glands to function.
110. Sugar has the potential of inducing abnormal metabolic processes in a normal healthy individual and to promote chronic degenerative diseases.
111.. I.Vs (intravenous feedings) of sugar water can cut off oxygen to the brain.
112. High sucrose intake could be an important risk factor in lung cancer.
113. Sugar increases the risk of polio.
114. High sugar intake can cause epileptic seizures.
115. Sugar causes high blood pressure in obese people.
116. In Intensive Care Units, limiting sugar saves lives.
117. Sugar may induce cell death.
118. Sugar can increase the amount of food that you eat.
119. In juvenile rehabilitation camps, when children were put on a low sugar diet, there was a 44% drop in antisocial behavior.
120. Sugar can lead to prostrate cancer.
121. Sugar dehydrates newborns.
122. Sugar increases the estradiol in young men.
123. Sugar can cause low birth weight babies.
124. Greater consumption of refined sugar is associated with a worse outcome of schizophrenia
125. Sugar can raise homocysteine levels in the blood stream.
126. Sweet food items increase the risk of breast cancer.
127. Sugar is a risk factor in cancer of the small intestine.
128. Sugar may cause laryngeal cancer.
129. Sugar induces salt and water retention.
130. Sugar may contribute to mild memory loss.
131. As sugar increases in the diet of 10 years olds, there is a linear decrease in the intake of many essential nutrients.
132. Sugar can increase the total amount of food consumed.
133. Exposing a newborn to sugar results in a heightened preference for sucrose relative to water at 6 months and 2 years of age.
134. Sugar causes constipation.
135. Sugar causes varicous veins.
136. Sugar can cause brain decay in prediabetic and diabetic women.
137. Sugar can increase the risk of stomach cancer.
138. Sugar can cause metabolic syndrome.
139. Sugar ingestion by pregnant women increases neural tube defects in embryos.
140. Sugar can be a factor in asthma.
141. The higher the sugar consumption the more chances of getting irritable bowel syndrome.
142. Sugar could affect central reward systems.
143. Sugar can cause cancer of the rectum.
144. Sugar can cause endometrial cancer.
145. Sugar can cause renal (kidney) cell carcinoma.
146. Sugar can cause liver tumors.

[JACK-2]

You're better giving up Rice whether brown or white. It turns to sugar during digestion. Same with bread whether white bread or wheat bread.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

Well brown rice is a complex carb and white rice is a simple carb. Complex carbs digest much better and are generally better for you. The thing is brown rice has other elements in it that make it much harder to digest. It has a very high amount of fiber which can be rough on some people as well. Some people have an easier time eating white rice.

That said I agree, rice isn't "bad" but there are better things to eat. I used to eat rice almost daily but I've moved on from it. I was eating brown rice crackers and other things as a substitute for corn and bread. I always wondered why I never felt full. Makes sense now.

[JACK-2]

Any update?

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

Went a few weeks without it and I tried it just to see the difference and oh boy was it terrible. So I'm done now. Life was much better without it.

[JACK-2]

So, when you eat bread. Is it Gluten free or do you not eat bread at all? Also, when you say lemon wter. Do you mean you squeeze a lemon in some water? What's your opinion on flavored water.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

Never use bread at all. Lemon water is just from lemons or you can use the "juice" that comes from squeezed lemons (but no sugar, etc).

[JACK-2]

Bread has absolutely no nutritional value whatsoever. I gave it up once for a year and now unfortunately I eat it again. I've dieted before, but I usually get it back. My hypoglycemia makes giving up sugar a bitch, I'm looking for a low carb alternative to sugar period.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

Sept 20, 2016 8:00:32 GMT -5 JACK-2 said:

Bread has absolutely no nutritional value whatsoever. I gave it up once for a year and now unfortunately I eat it again. I've dieted before, but I usually get it back. My hypoglycemia makes giving up sugar a bitch, I'm looking for a low carb alternative to sugar period.

Yea and the gluten in bread gives people major problems as well. I've stopped eating it some time ago. You could try brown rice substitutes.


Your sugar problems could be due to a dependency on it, but go for fruits and vegetables instead of junky foods and you should be fine.

[JACK-2]

I love vegetables, but I've never been into fruits outside of like five. Gonna try making drinks with low sugar or low carb shake.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

Sept 20, 2016 10:36:06 GMT -5 JACK-2 said:

I love vegetables, but I've never been into fruits outside of like five. Gonna try making drinks with low sugar or low carb shake.

Yea I don't eat fruits either actually. Apples and Oranges give me headaches and the others cause other issues. Vegetables have enough sweetness in them and provide the glucose you need without the fructose or the sucrose either. Modern fruits have been grown to be EXTREMELY sweet.


I will have lemon and lime water though.

[JACK-2]

Can you explain this lemon water or lime water? Because I don't get it lol.

Yeah, I read an article that modern fruits are too sweet and will lead to tooth decay.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

Sept 20, 2016 11:33:34 GMT -5 JACK-2 said:

Can you explain this lemon water or lime water? Because I don't get it lol.

Yeah, I read an article that modern fruits are too sweet and will lead to tooth decay.

Just drops of lemon or lime juice into water, either from the actual lemon/lime or from the bottled version you can get in stores.

You've never had a lemon or lime with your beverage?

[JACK-2]

No, I haven't had it with just water.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

Definitely try it out sometime.

[JACK-2]

Cutting out Soda and Bread. I'll let you know how I do.

[JACK-2]

Here's a chart which contains the average amount of sugar in soft drinks and beverages:

www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/06/09/319230765/fruit-juice-vs-soda-both-beverages-pack-in-sugar-and-health-risk

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

Yea that shit is packed in sugar. Buyer beware.