You've probably heard that too much sugar is bad for your health. Sugar can be blamed for many health problems, from worsening anxiety and depression to reducing the function of your immune system. Sugar is also to blame for chronic health conditions such as obesity, type two diabetes and cardiovascular disease. As if that wasn't bad enough, new research show that consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages may be associated with an increased risk of death from cancer.
Sugar-sweetened beverages increase the risk of dying from cancer, researchers find
Sugary drinks and foods seem to be everywhere. It's easier to walk into a gas station and choose from a wide variety of drinks with added sweeteners than to find ones without them. However, according to two recent studies, that could be bad news for cancer risk and mortality. One study was published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Prevention, a publication of the American Society for Cancer Research. This study evaluated the effects of both sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and artificially sweetened beverages (ASBs) on cancer. The study included almost a million participants from the USA, until 1982. At the start of the trial, the participants were cancer-free. They then reported their consumption of ASB and SSB, and the researchers tracked the number of deaths among the participants until 2016. Ultimately, the researchers found that those who consumed two or more sugar-sweetened beverages per day had a higher risk of death than some types cancer, especially obesity-related cancer.
It's not just drinks, sugary foods also lead to more cancer
Another study, published in 2020 in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, also suggests that sugar is linked to cancer risks. This study involved 101,279 participants, looking again at their total sugar intake and how it affected cancer risk. Unfortunately, increased total sugar intake was associated with a higher overall risk of developing cancer, especially breast cancer. Consumption of other sweeteners and added sugars also increased the risk. The results of these two studies are shocking, especially considering the widespread consumption of sugar in our society. The research raises the question of whether sugar can be a significant and variable risk factor when it comes to cancer prevention? More discussion is needed on the disturbing potential links between sugar intake and cancer. But it's safe to say that reducing the amount of processed sugar in your diet is a smart decision.
How to reduce total sugar intake
Given the research findings, it may be wise to reduce your intake of added sugars and sweeteners as much as possible. This will help you feel your best and may even reduce your risk of diseases like cancer. It is a good idea to always read food ingredient lists and avoid processed foods as they are often high in added sugars. If something has a very long list of ingredients that are hard to pronounce, it's probably not a healthy choice. Whole plant foods are the safest choice when trying to cut back on sugar. Whole fruit is a healthy and natural source of sugar. They also contain vital nutrients. You could also try another interesting strategy to increase your daily intake of vitamin C, through fruits and vegetables and Super C vitamin (you can read more about this product HERE). Integrative health care providers have reported reduced sugar cravings – when patients maintain higher levels of vitamin C. Reducing sugar cravings can seem difficult at first. But over time, as you eat more natural (unprocessed) foods… kicking the sugar habit will become easier and will greatly improve your health.
Sources for this article include:
NIH.gov
Academic.oup.com
We definitely suggest that you adhere to the Healthy Lifestyle described below, in order to improve your quality of life:
1. Drink a sufficient amount of clean non-carbonated water every day. We recommend that you drink verified spring water or purchased still water, which is less evil than that from the tap, or that you get a reverse osmosis filter. Along with clean water, you can also drink freshly squeezed juice or herbal tea (chamomile or mint or ginger...). Completely avoid teas that are diuretics: nettle, dandelion, bearberry, green tea...and coffee... To get an accurate calculation of how much fluid you need to drink, divide your body weight by thirty (kg of body mass: 30 and that's the minimum). For example, if you have 60 kg :30= 2L. So, you should drink 2 liters of water throughout the day. This example is given only if it is winter, spring or autumn, if it is summer the fluid intake should be increased.
* If you sleep or often stay in a room where the air is dry, you can dehydrate
*If your skin is dry after a shower, this happens due to chlorine contained in the city water, a great solution is to buy a shower filter with activated carbon
If you have a small urination at night and it deprives you of normal sleep, drink the last water until 18, 17 or even 4: 00.
2.Exercise at least 3x a week (sweat during training)
Do strength exercises, cardio (aerobic)training and stretching exercises.
3. Breakfast in the morning: a variety of seasonal organic fruit, sunflower seeds (not fried nor salty, sunflower is an excellent source natural magnesium), whole wool, full-bodied sesame and optional chia or pumpkin seeds...) and a handful of nuts (almonds or walnuts or hazelnuts or cashews or peanuts (unsalted)), 5-8 tablespoons of peeled oats or buckwheat that has been left overnight in a cup (500 ml) of water. In the morning, strain and rinse well and then mix with the other ingredients. Cereals are not cooked! You can season the fruit salad with a spoonful of honey, agave syrup or almond spread or the like and, if desired, a little ground cinnamon.
4-5 hours after breakfast lunch: a variety of seasonal organic raw vegetables with sunflower seeds (unroasted threads salty, sunflower is an excellent source natural magnesium), whole wool, full-bodied sesame and if desired chia or pumpkin seeds...) and a handful of nuts (almonds or walnuts or hazelnuts or cashews or peanuts try to find in the shell), boiled legumes, beans or lentils or chickpeas or peas or green beans or broad beans (if you lose weight increase portion of some legumes in a vegetable salad) and cooked grain (wheat or hulled oats or barley or rye or buckwheat or millet...). The salad can be seasoned with cold-pressed olive oil, raw garlic (for even stronger immunity, cleaner blood and clean blood vessels ), onion, avocado (if you are losing weight, increase the proportion of avocado (2-3 pieces) in the vegetable salad) and spices (rosemary, basil, hot pepper, thyme, oregano...).
For dessert, eat a healthy combination of nuts or seeds with honey.
4-5 hours after lunch dinner: only fruit with a handful of nuts (almonds or nuts or hazelnuts) or if you feel a lack of energy dinner should be the same as breakfast.
Mandatory : during meals do not drink any liquid only after 1-2h
4.Rest enough and on time (no later than 21:00 h in winter or 22:00 h in summer) and in complete darkness. If you're not completely dark in the room where you sleep, get a sleep blindfold. The link can be obtained at the DM. If you have trouble sleeping, let someone massage you before going to bed and increase the amount of physical activity during the day.
5. Daily exposure to sunlight for 1 hour a day due to vitamin D. If you have sensitive skin, gradually sunbathe and use common sense. Being in the fresh air every day, outside the city where air is most often polluted, and such air can reduce the absorption of vitamin D.
6. Avoidance of all poisons (coffee, green tea, black tea, cigarettes, drugs, chemicals, alcohol, refined sweets...). If you get a headache when you stop drinking coffee, you should increase your fluid intake by 0.5L or even 1L + of course your minimum that you should drink every day (see item no. 1) and the headaches will disappear very quickly. If it is difficult for you to give up coffee, drink Divka grain coffees and similar.
Coffee Video:
1 part. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66OhVqbi_So
2.part https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUOvXEmkAbo
7. Avoidance of meat, fish, eggs, all dairy products (especially avoid pork, rabbit, shellfish, crabs, squid, octopus, cuttlefish, seafood, sushi...) and of course refined food.
For more information on dairy products, see:
Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Du-nnjV3I
Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI5v5ibw1Pw
Part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Du-nnjV3I
For more information on meat, see :
Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjPTk2f7do4
2dio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcVNI781WWc
For more information on fish, see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdDTfX5yh9g
What to eat as a substitute for foods of animal origin :
1.part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h8XNBO-mpI
2.part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVh5eyNxpf0
3.part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3GI7Khrl2A
8. Maintain personal hygiene, wash every night. After touching the animal, wash your hands. Do not put anything on the skin that is not edible (creams, make-up, lipsticks, deodorants, antiperspirants, etc.) and maintain personal hygiene with natural soap and 100% natural hygiene supplies.
9. Find a job that fulfills you and makes you happy and make an effort to improve interpersonal relationships (forgive all people who have offended you or harmed you).
10. To put your life in God's hands every day through prayer in the solitude of your room and not to worry about things you have no influence on. If you haven't, start researching the meaning of your existence, what happens after death, why there is so much evil on planet earth... By finding these answers, you can improve the quality of your life.
We suggest you take a look at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYc_RVnjVDg&list=PLgCvyJI_bD3lzs9cDa1eBe8DiIk2KOQy5
