SUGAR LINKED TO MANY CHRONIC DISEASES
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BLOG #110 SUGAR LINKED TO MANY CHRONIC DISEASES
Dr. Spiker Davis D.D.S. 713-781-2800, Jenna Nixon Holistic Nutritionist 281-433-9996 & Dr. Matt Guerre D.D.S. 713-781-2800. In collaboration with Dr. John Seger M.D. Cardiologist 713-791-9444
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Since the election I have been very intrigued with Robert F. Kennedy and what he thinks about our health system. I have read multiple articles about how he thinks that Ultra Processed Foods (UPF’s) are linked to autism, obesity, diabetes, heart attack, stroke, cancer etc.. There is actually a fair amount of evidence that he is right and most of the stuff I read also links the problem of SUGAR BEING IN UPF’s.
The big question is what are UPF’s? Ultra-processed foods are foods that have been significantly altered from their original state and contain many added ingredients, such as sugar, salt, fat, additives, preservatives, and artificial colors.
Some examples of ultra-processed foods include:
Soft drinks, Chips, Chocolate, Candy, Ice cream, Sweetened breakfast cereals, Packaged soups, Chicken nuggets, Hot dogs, and Fries-pretty much any food in a container (box, jar, can, bag etc.) is considered processed and about 70% of those have tons of sugar. Ultra Processed is the top 25% of the processed.
How do you tell if something is a processed food? Mainly you need to read the label, and you will notice a lot of chemical names that you probably don’t recognize. In my opinion, if you don’t know what it is then don’t eat it. And that gets us back to what most nutritionists/dieticians call whole foods such as fresh vegetables and fruits (buy organic to avoid the chemical pesticides etc.), and proteins that are NOT FARM RAISED. Almost all farm raised animals are fed certain foods to fatten them up which changes the body chemistry. For example, Farm Raised Salmon and Beef are both feed corn. Do you think Salmon in the wild eat corn??? So, when they consume weird foods then their body chemistry changes and that is what we are eating. Not to mention that they may also be fed antibiotics and hormones to avoid disease and super grow them into giants etc. So, as a dentist I have been against Processed foods of all kinds for years. I am of the opinion that there is basically nothing in processed food that is worth eating. RFK thinks that is why America is so much fatter and unhealthy compared to European countries because they don’t allow all of this stuff in their food. RFK believes that our FDA is being way too lax on allowing all of these chemicals and he wants to Make America Healthy Again by removing this from the food we eat and especially from the school foods fed to our children.
It makes sense to me that we remove all of these chemicals and additives to our food and then we will all be a lot healthier and thus save money on drugs and doctors and hospitals etc. To me Overall health is just like dental health. Let’s prevent the problem rather than fix it once it’s there. For example-if you floss, brush and avoid sugar you can probably save yourself from lots of cavities, bone infections and abscessed teeth. Wouldn’t you rather just avoid the money and pain? Not to mention who wants to be taking 5-10 medications per day if we could just eat healthy and avoid all of that???
Spiker
“THE MOUTH IS THE WINDOW TO YOUR HEALTH”. BRUSH AND FLOSS TWICE DAILY, AVOID SUGAR AND PROCESSED FOOD FOR 2025 AND SEE YOUR DENTIST AND PHYSICIAN ON A REGULAR BASIS.
Spiker Davis D.D.S. spiker@thepaleodentist.com John Seger M.D. Matt Guerre D.D.S. Jenna Nixon Nutritionist
Jenna@goodthingsnaturalhealth.com 281-433-9996
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