Sugar – Quiet Inflammation Creator

There are many foods you can eat on a daily basis that will help you reduce the amount of inflammation in your body. There are also many foods you can eat that will quietly increase your inflammation. It may sound too simple but simply changing what you eat can have a dramatic affect on the amount of pain you feel in your body. And this is not just joint pain I’m talking about. Inflammation can cause pain in many areas of your body.

Today I’m going to focus on a food that increases inflammation. Unfortunately, if you love eating sweet things, you are probably not going to like this, but you do really need to. Especially if you have joint pain. One of the top causes of inflammation in your body in sugar.

I know what your probably thinking right now “Oh man, Sugar. Really?” Unfortunately yes. Like many other things in life a little sugar won’t really cause any problems. Especially the sugars that are found in natural fruits and vegetables. Its the processed sugars I’m talking about. The ones in candy bars, whoopie pies and even in many of the processed foods that you may eat.

As you probably know sugar can cause tooth decay. Sugar is also linked to an increased risk of major illnesses as well. Excessive sugar intake increase the risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes. And Acne too. If you have a teenager in the house be sure to let them know that excessive sugar can cause acne. If they are having a rough time with Acne, have them try reducing their sugar intake and you’ll be amazed at how much it will help.

Excessive sugar intake causes increased inflammation. It’s because having a high amount of sugar in your diet causes an increase in advanced glycation end-products, or AGEs. AGEs are proteins bound to a glucose molecule which results in a damaged cross linked protein.

When your body tries to break apart the AGEs, your immune cells give off large amounts on inflammatory chemicals. This process actually causes many of the diseases you may think are caused by simply aging, but in fact are actually caused by this inflammatory process. Diseases like arthritis, memory loss, cataracts, heart disease and can even cause wrinkled skin.

So, before you simply eat something, take just a couple seconds and look at the label. There may be lots of things on the label that you have no idea what they are, but sugar is one thing you should be on the look out for. Many times it is not listed as sugar either. Sugar can be listed as any one of these:

corn syrup, sucrose, dextrose, fructose, golden syrup, maltose, sorghum syrup

You can do many things to reduce your sugar intake. One would be to use a natural sweetener like honey. You can add it to your cereal, to your coffee or tea and may other things you eat too.
As you reduce your sugar intake, your body will produce less inflammatory chemicals, which in the end will result in you having less inflammation and your joints will hurt less.
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This is just one of the many ways you can help reduce your joint pain. I hope this helps and here’s to your life without joint pain in the very near future!

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