Health Hotline Magazine | November 2020

(Hint… it’s not good) WHAT DOES Eating Sugar DO TO YOUR HEALTH & IMMUNITY?

By Lindsay Wilson This time of year is a marker of sorts: it’s the beginning of a holiday season full of sweet temptations and loads of comfort foods, coupled with the start of cold and flu season. This year, though, the cold and flu season is di erent from any other we’ve known because of the additional threat of COVID-19, with experts already advising us to “hunker down” through the next few months. But what does the season of sweets and treats have to do with the cold and flu season, or more specifically, how you weather cold and flu season? It all has to do with blood sugar. When most people think of blood sugar dysfunction, they think of type-2 diabetes, but that is just the end result of many years of chronically elevated blood sugar. There’s a spectrum of blood sugar dysfunction, and the damage to your body starts even when your blood sugar consistently stays at the high end of “normal.” Simply put, high blood sugar is very bad for your health.

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