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Continuing our topic from yesterday about sugar leading to reduced immunity, there's a great book that summarizes all these effects of sugar. This one is called The Case Against Sugar. And the book presents an excruciatingly well-researched summary of the bad things that can happen to the body when excessive sugar is consumed, except the author gets it a little bit wrong. One word is missing, and that is the book should have been titled The Case Against Refined Sugar. 

There's a difference between refined sugar versus natural sugar. When natural sugar is presented to the body, it is presented along with minerals, fiber, color pigments, all of this stuff. So the sugar molecule is accompanied by its "friends," except when that sugar is refined, those friends are eliminated, and then the body is presented with simply the sugar molecule, and the body doesn't know how effectively to process the sugar molecule as it is presented to it without its friends versus with its friends. It's easier for the body to process the sugar along with its friends. So, natural sugar is okay. Refined sugar is pathetically bad.