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Sugar has the potential to reduce your body's defenses
Healthy Living | Last Active: Feb 7, 2020 | Replies (29)Comment receiving replies
The details about the context and results have quantitative values but what one does to provoke the problem has simply the word "some". This means nothing to me. Such incongruencies triggers a fail on the-smell-test. Also, the "can get substituted my mistake" does not produce a clean quantitative value for me.
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I remember the days of Dr. Pauling saying we needed lots of vitamin C to avoid colds. I had lots of sinus infections at the time so I drank lots of Tang, promoted by NASA and full of sugar. It did no good at all, and probably because of the sugar. I also remember that when I gave up carrot cake, ice cream and such my knees didn't have so much pain from inflammation, I think. That was before the knee replacements. This science of all this has not been available to us but in now coming to light as we examine the research and rely on facts rather than the craziness of the sixties and some of the Hippy ideas that didn't pan out at all. I know you are going to ask: what ideas? and I am thinking of the raw corn and unpasteurized honey goods. My friends put raw sweet corn in the freezer and wondered why it spoiled. Dorisena
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Smell test means different things to different people. If many articles from many different sources point to sugar consumption causing health related problems, I'm going with trying to reduce my consumption but I do understand where you are coming from. I alway go back to statistics and numbers can be scewed to prove pretty much whatever you want to prove (with the caveat of most of the time ☺).
Fast food fever: reviewing the impacts of the Western diet on immunity
-- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4074336/
PubMed has a lot of docs on the topic
-- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=refined%20sugar%20immune%20system
Not sure I'm qualified to answer your original question but my thought is that it doesn't take too much to look at western culture like the U.S and other countries diet vs eastern culture to see that refined sugar consumption is a problem (IMHO). Dumb question on my part - are you looking for scientific proof to stop or reduce sugar intake, or is it just seeing the article you mentioned and not agreeing with their assumptions?