My son is just getting over the flu. I was talking about it with my dad on the phone yesterday. He asked me if I knew what factor lowered the body’s immunity the most. To my surprise, he told me it was sugar intake.

Of course, I know that sugar is bad for you. I really did not realize how much it weakened your immune system. I decided to research it a little and discovered that my dad was right. (Dad, I never doubted you for a second, you are always right, lol.)

Geocities.com explains it very well in "TO Arms With Your Immune System:

"Refined sugar is nothing but pure carbohydrate stripped of any nutritional value. It is what we call empty calories. Like a recreational drug or alcohol, sugar affects the brain first, is addictive, and causes your energy to bottom out. Sugar depresses the immune response and is toxic to immune cells. Sugar lowers our resistance. Think of sugar as lowering the walls of our fortress, letting the invading army march over the top. One teaspoon of sugar can inhibit natural killer (NK)cells and macrophages for up to six hours. "Sugar clogs the system. It hinders the working of the living machine."

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