Why Sugar is So Bad for You

Hello, my name is dr. Jody Stanislaw I am a naturopathic doctor and certified diabetes educator. I specialized in helping patients with type 1 diabetes. I was motivated to do this because I myself was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when I was 7 years old, so I control what I eat and my blood

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level. The level has literally been a lifelong career for me and a quick explanation. I want to separate and explain the difference between type 1 and type 2. Type 1 is an autoimmune disease for some reason. One day I got very sick. I had seven years old. We do not know.

I know why to this day we don't know exactly why type one occurs, but my immune system decided to attack and kill all my cells that produce insulin, so I no longer produce insulin, so I have been taking insulin every day. days since I was seven years old and we haven't found a way to reverse that, so I still take injections every day. Type 2 diabetes, which is what's in the news and what you hear a lot more often is that over 30 million people in the US alone have type 2 diabetes. diabetes to keep it simple, I'm going to say let's say that type 2 diabetes is not a disease, it's okay, it's just that the body is worn out and type 2, the insulin-producing cells are tired and can't produce enough insulin while insulin works with

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. from the bloodstream and feeds it to the cells, so like anything in the body that is used in excess, eventually a week passes and it wears out, so in type 2 just think of it as the cells that produce insulin they are tired and so If you can't produce enough insulin, then the blood sugar levels rise and that is very harmful, so there are many causes of type 2 that I have to explain.

I should mention, but one of the main activities that we have control over is the one that really demands you. towards a higher risk of type 2 is your diet and your lifestyle, unfortunately, the current American diet, which means sad diet, too sad, standard American diet, so the acronym is sad, very appropriate, are all of these foods processed, foods that come in boxes and bags and full of sugar and refined carbohydrates our bodies are not made to function on processed foods, the body must push to function and thrive on foods that are grown in nature, fruits, vegetables, seeds and nuts, fish, you know, things that you can imagine growing in nature, it's what the body nourishes itself, imagine if you poured apple juice into the gas tank of your car, it won't work because it's not the right fuel and, Unfortunately, Americans and people around the world are consuming fuel that does not optimize their body's function and that causes enormous health problems, so eating sweets, eating cereal, eating frozen yogurt, ice cream, chips, crackers, pasta and bread, neither of these things grow in nature, so they are not optimal fuel, but the sad thing is that our society acts like everyone else. eat them so I guess it's normal and unfortunately just because the masses do it doesn't mean it's normal or healthy so when you overeat these types of non-foods as I like to call them all these things that come in packages , bags and boxes.

You are not optimizing your body and you are weakening the cells that produce insulin, you are stressing them too much. I have to say that if you drink a lot of soda or if you eat a lot of sugar, those cells have to produce a lot of insulin. that if you continue to eat that way for the next few years of your life, those cells wear out, they can't keep up, they can't keep making insulin for all the sugar you eat, you're wearing out the cells that make insulin. and eventually that's one of the things that can lead to type 2 diabetes and you don't want to wear yourself out because if you do and you start to get high blood sugar, high blood sugar, too much sugar in your bloodstream It is very harmful to the body it is like imagining small pieces of glass circulating in your bloodstream and tearing the edges of your arteries.

I know it's very vivid, but this is very important. Too much sugar circulating through your bloodstream can lead to heart disease, stroke, blindness, kidney failure, Alzheimer's. I don't want too much sugar in my bloodstream, so that's my kind of introduction to who I am, what I'm about and what I'm passionate about, helping others. I did a TED talk called sugar, it's not a treat that I recommend. To watch it, just put my name Jodie Stanislaw on YouTube and you'll see that it has over 1 million views and the information that I share is very important because the US Center for Disease Control says that if we continue to eat all of these processed foods, if we continue to eat like Americans like we are, by 2050 one in three Americans will have type 2 diabetes, so that's a horrible statistic because type 2 diabetes means you have high blood. sugar and when you have high blood sugar, that's when all those horrible health complications can appear.

Now you certainly don't have to be an adult for the negative impacts of sugar to affect you, even you as children who are seeing high blood sugar. it can cause headaches, it can cause depression, it can cause fatigue, it can cause anger, it can cause you to not be able to concentrate very well, in fact it can even cause violent behavior, so it really affects your mood and your level of concentration. energy, so keep that in mind. The next time you eat sugar, not just when you eat it for the next few hours after giving it up, like I said.

I am very passionate about helping people understand this because I work with type 1 diabetics every day. I have a virtual practice. Job. with patients around the world via video and phone and giving them the education they need to have healthy blood sugar levels even though we as type one people don't produce insulin, so you don't want to have type one diabetes. 1, but You certainly don't want to get type 2, which you have a lot more control over because preventing type 1 is a lot harder, but there are ways, but that's not the case if we don't have enough time for this video, so let's see.

Yes, I think I have covered all the questions you asked me to answer. If you have any questions for me, please visit my website. My website is dr. jody n decom which spelled dr j OD y y as naturopath d as in dr. Don't worry, there's a click, there's a link there, you can work with me and have a free introductory call and you can see I have a retreat for type 1 diabetics or anyone wants to learn about type 1. I love helping people understand better. that, so I did it. this video for a seventh grade class in California and I hope that all of you are inspired to go home and talk to your parents and say: you know what I want to eat less sugar.

Can you help me if you do that? I'm so proud of you, so thanks for watching and have a healthy day. I hope you have a very healthy meal ahead of you, whatever you're going to eat next, have a great day.