1247: The Dangers of Eating Too Much Sugar
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sal, Adam & Justin discuss the potential negative impacts of consuming too much sugar.
- The demonization of sugar. (5:00)
- The addictive properties of sugar and the physiological effects on your body. (7:39)
- How we evolved to crave it. (12:19)
- Things that studies have shown that high sugar diets contribute to. (14:48)
- #1 - Weight Gain. (16:15)
- #2 - Risk for heart disease. (21:26)
- Expressing empathy for former clients and themselves. (24:00)
- #3 - Acne. (30:34)
- #4 - Effect on the microbiome and autoimmune diseases. (31:40)
- #5 - Type 2 diabetes. (35:07)
- Consumer alert! Nutrient splitting on labels is a real issue. (38:00)
- #6 - Cancer and it’s link to high consumption of sugar. (40:03)
- #7 - Can accelerate skin and cellular aging. (42:36)
- #8 – Energy swings and mood. (45:10)
- How to eat sugar properly. (49:52)
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| 0:39.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:43.0 | In this episode of Mind Pump, we talk all about sugar. |
| 0:48.0 | Oh yeah, that component in food that makes it taste really good and sweet. |
| 0:53.0 | So sweet. |
| 0:54.0 | It's been demonized in some circles. Some people say it's not a problem at all so long as your calories are low. |
| 1:00.0 | It's been blamed for rises and heart disease and cancer. |
| 1:05.0 | We tend to think sugar probably best if you generally avoid it. |
| 1:10.0 | So we talk about all of the stuff that sugar can do to your body and our experiences with sugar and our clients. |
| 1:19.0 | We talk about it's addictive properties. |
| 1:22.0 | That's right. Sugar does have some addictive properties and we worked a lot of people who seem to have issues with sugar addiction. |
| 1:29.0 | We talk about how it can cause weight gain. |
| 1:32.0 | It's a potential to increase risks for heart disease, cancer, acne, type 2 diabetes. |
| 1:39.0 | It might actually speed up the aging process. |
| 1:43.0 | Energy swings. It can make people's energy go up and down. |
| 1:46.0 | We also talk about how to eat it properly. |
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