You Might Wanna Put Down That Sugary Starbuck's Drink...

...or breakfast granola, fruity yogurt, vanilla flavored soy milk, and the list can go on. There are even a lot of food products on the shelf and fridge that claim health benefits but contain loads of sugar that could be harming your body. Yogurt is a popular breakfast item, especially the fruity yogurts that come in those convenient cups, like DanActive - which also claims it helps with regularity. Regularity happens naturally with a diet consisting of fiber from vegetables, fruits, sometimes whole grain, and a lot of water. DanActive, and many other fruit flavored yogurts have so much sugar that it negates the benefits of eating yogurt, I think. Instead, try plain yogurt with fresh fruits and maybe a small amount of honey, if needed.

I understand the coffee fix urge, but when I do go to Starbuck's on occasion, most of the drinks I hear called out are drinks like Venti Non-fat Vanilla Soy Latte, or Grande Non-fat Mocha with Whip. These drinks are tasty for a reason, and it's because of all that sugar! Craving sugar is natural, and I can't resist it all either. But I think we should be very determined to cut back on a lot of the sugars we eat. There are 146 ways that sugar harms your health! I will list 10 here, but follow this link to see the whole list:

http://www.rheumatic.org/sugar.htm

1. Sugar can suppress the immune system.
2. Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in the body.
3. Sugar can cause hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and crankiness in children.
4. Sugar can produce a significant rise in triglycerides.
5. Sugar contributes to the reduction in defense against bacterial infection (infectious diseases).
6. Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function, the more sugar you eat the more elasticity and function you loose.
7. Sugar reduces high density lipoproteins.
8. Sugar leads to chromium deficiency.
9 Sugar leads to cancer of the ovaries.
10. Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose.

Sugar is often hidden and is in most packaged or processed foods. Labels may list sugar as corn sugar, corn syrup, dextrose, fructose, fruit sugar, glucose, glucose syrup, high-fructose glucose syrup, honey, invert sugar, invert sugar syrup, isoglucose, lactose, levulose, maltose, milk sugar, molasses, sucrose, or sucrose syrup. So be cautious!