Sugar and your immune system

Sugar Can Depress Your Immune System by 90 Percent
from Total Health Breakthrough

It is proven that sugar and high-glycemic carbohydrates depress your immune system. There are many mechanisms for why it happens. But one of the best measures is the leukocytic index (LI).
This is a measure of how many invading organisms one white blood cell can engulf in one hour. A leukocytic index of 10 means that one white blood cell consumed 10 microbes within that hour. The average person in the U.S. has an LI of 14. That is not necessarily optimal. It is the average. But get this...
Within 15 minutes of consuming the amount of refined carbohydrates that the average American ingests with his evening meal - about 100 grams - the LI drops to about 1.4. That means the average person loses more than 90 percent of their immune function within 15 minutes of consuming a meal containing sugar and high-glycemic carbohydrates!
And this deficiency in the ability of white blood cells to engulf invading organisms can last for anywhere from two to five hours. Of course, if you consistently eat these foods, your immune system will remain perpetually depressed.
From Total Health Breakthrough.com