Of course, the sugar industry attacked the study. They pointed out that fructose occurs naturally in fruit. The researchers countered that a small amount of fructose is necessary for the body. But Americans consume far more than they could ever get from eating fruit.

And fruits contain fiber as well as other healthy components mixed with fructose. Sugary drinks, the primary source of sugar in the American diet, provide no nutrition.

Sugar is so strongly associated with cancer that doctors use it to detect cancer in your body!

A PET (positive emission tomography) scan is commonly used to detect cancer in your body. Doctors inject you with radioactive glucose before the scan. Cancer cells, starved of glucose, absorb it more quickly than healthy cells. The scan analysis shows the concentration of glucose. (6)

Switching to an artificial sweetener doesn’t protect you either.

“Equal” (aspartame), “Splenda” (sucralose), and “Sweet’N Low” (saccharin) are all dangerous to health. These sweeteners have been linked to headaches, dizziness, nausea, memory loss, depression, and even cancer. (7)
Three healthy natural sweeteners.
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