Hello everyone. Today I'm going to talk to you about one straightforward thing you can do to dramatically improve your health.

Cut refined sugar out of your diet. Now that might be easier said than done.

But let's talk about the Y first and then we can talk about the how.

And the Y is long. It includes things like cancer risk, deteriorating effects on the brain, affecting areas involved in emotion and learning and memory,

the speed at which we biologically age and much more.

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This can be as simple as pitching into by my team a figurative cup of coffee once per month.

Even otherwise small numbers can add up over time and this is a great way to say, hey, I like what you're doing and I'd like you to do more of it.

It doesn't get more straight forward than that and it doesn't even have to be a lot. It just takes a community to make it happen.

Once again, you can find that at found my fitness.com forward slash crowd sponsor. Now let's talk sugar sugar occurs naturally in foods like fruit and dairy products.

There may be a place for moderation here, especially with dairy, but that is not what we are especially concerned with today.

Instead, refined sugar is what is especially problematic. Refined sugar is extracted from sugar cane or sugar beads and undergoes extensive processing.

It is often added to foods such as cookies, cakes, candies, crackers, sugar sweetens, soft drinks, condiments, and many others.

Refined sugar intake is a big problem, particularly in the US. Nearly three-fourths of adults in the US get about a tenth of the time.

The amount of their daily calories from added refined sugar and amazing 10% get nearly one-fourth of their calories from refined sugar.

Although most people are aware of the link between excess refined sugar and type two diabetes, few are aware that it is also linked to many different diseases of aging.

Scientists estimate that consumption of sugar sweetened beverages in 2010 may have contributed to nearly 133,000 deaths from diabetes, 45,000 deaths from cardiovascular disease,

and 6450 deaths from cancer worldwide. Let that sink in. We're not even talking about deaths from smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol.

We're not even talking about deaths caused by eating sugar in general. We're talking about more than 140,000 deaths, likely caused by consuming sugar sweetened beverages alone.

Let me give you an idea of the magnitude of effect that sugar consumption can have in terms of sugar sweetened beverages such as sodas.

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