The impact of refined sugar consumption on our health is extremely detrimental. It contributes to weight gain, diabetes, heart disease, and is particularly damaging to our immune response, which is an underlying factor in cancer. Immune function decreases for hours after sugar is consumed. A research study done by Loma Linda University in which participants were fed different forms of sugar found that the effectiveness of white blood cells (our immune cells which fight infection) decreased up to 50% after 1-2 hours of eating sugar, lasting up to five hours. Dr. Linus Pauling, a Nobel Prize winning microbiologist, conducted groundbreaking work related to Vitamin C and the common cold. In this research he found that sugar severely slows down the ability of white blood cells to engulf pathogens, one of our primary defenses against viruses (COVID-19, influenza, colds) and bacteria (Salmonella, E-Coli, Staph infections, bacterial pneumonia).
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