The body uses sugar as a quick and dirty shortcut to instant fuel — and it doesn’t do well with a high sugar intake over long periods of time.
Our bodies take up sugar with gusto, metabolizing it with the use of our liver and sending insulin out to knock on the doors of our cells, instructing them to let sugar in. Too much of this for too long leads to an accumulation of fat in the liver, an abnormal amount of “bad” cholesterol and triglycerides in the bloodstream, and the body becoming less sensitive to the calls of insulin.