Does Sugar Make You Old?

When sugar reacts with amino acids, AGEs (advanced glycation end products) are formed. It occurs in the foods we eat and also in our bodies. It’s easy to remember as it contributes in a major way, along with oxidation, to disease and aging.

Reducing AGEs is critical if you want to slow the development and/or progression of disease and aging in general.

If you eat a typical American diet, did you know you will most likely consume 2 ½ pounds of sugar in a week? Reducing dietary intake of AGEs reduces oxidative stress and inflammatory markers in your body. Remembering that inflammation is now understood to be the root cause of most if not all chronic disease and premature aging, this puts greater emphasis on the fact that it’s all connected.

You can make significant improvements to your health if youjust begin to look objectively at what you eat and analyze it, checking first for sugar content. Food labeling is sneaky, so check out the 60+ names of sugar in the Resources section of https://ThinStrongHealthy.com. It’s not shown on labels as simply “sugar”. That would be too easy. For example, you need to look for any ingredient that ends in “ose” for starters: lactose, maltose, fructose and so on. Anything that ends in “ose” is a type of sugar.

Since I just mentioned fructose, let me share it was tested in a controlled study of sixteen individuals back on 2012. They were given a diet high in fructose for just ten weeks. It produced new fat cells around their digestive organs, heart and liver in…