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Why You Won't Find Refined Sugar at This Doctor's House
When Reader's Digest magazine reached out to me about my family's 2018 health resolutions, my response was an easy one.
“We’re going to eat even less sugar this year.”
Since Dr. Fiola and I had children, we don’t have sugary food or drinks in our home. This has helped us offset our desire for it. I’ll admit, I’m proud when our daughters tell the restaurant server we only order dessert on our birthdays.”
What’s So Bad about Refined Sugars?
Sugar addiction is real. When you eat sugary foods, the same ‘feel-good’ parts of the brain fire up in the same way they do for people who abuse drugs, alcohol and nicotine.
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Many of us eat up to four times the amount of added sugar we should, thanks to hidden sugars in everyday foods, like yogurt, ketchup and barbecue sauce, ‘health/nutrition’ bars and those energy drinks we hand out to our youth athletes for ‘fuel.’
A mountain of clinical evidence has confirmed that sugar also ages you by fast-forwarding the body’s aging process by shortening the length of your chromosomes. Sugar consumption is also linked to a host of deadly diseases, particularly cancer, liver damage, heart failure and obesity.
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A Doctor’s Dose of Sweet Reality
Let me be clear — I’m not preaching that you and your family should never eat a sugary piece of candy or a slice of birthday cake.
But it should be a special treat, not something that plays a role in daily meal-planning. If this is the way you treat sugar, metabolic syndrome (obesity) and the related chronic diseases that go along with it, could curtail your overall health-and your family’s health.
It’s never too late to change course. Why not start right now?
If you are battling the disease of obesity and have more than 75 pounds to lose, or have an obesity-related disease, like diabetes or heart disease, you may wish to consider a weight loss surgery solution.
If traditional diet and exercise have not worked for you, watch our available bariatric surgery information webinars or live seminars to learn more.
About Dr. Seun
Dr. Seun Sowemimo is a Freehold Township, NJ-based board-certified bariatric and general surgeon specializing in the treatment of metabolic syndrome (obesity). He is medical director at Prime Surgicare, located on the campus of CentraState Medical Center. Dr. Seun can be reached by calling (732) 982-2002.
