Medically reviewed by Adam Bernstein, MD, ScD — By Mary Jane Brown, PhD, RD (UK) — Updated on February 26, 2024
Eating too much added sugar and other refined carbs is linked to inflammation in the body — which may lead to health problems. But eating more fiber may be a powerful way to reduce inflammation, with other lifestyle changes.
Some foods, like sugar, can also cause inflammation in the body.
But this is not acute inflammation, like the type you’d get with an injury, which comes and goes quite quickly. It’s chronic.
And chronic low-grade inflammation can increase your risk of serious health problems, such as heart disease, obesity, diabetes, cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, and allergies, according to research in humans and animals (2Trusted Source, 3Trusted Source, 4Trusted Source, X, Y).
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How added sugar affects your body
Consuming excess added sugar and refined carbohydrates causes several changes in the body, which help explain why a diet high in sugar can lead to chronic, low-grade inflammation.
Excess production of AGEs
Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) are harmful compounds that form when protein or fat combine with sugar.
They form as a natural product of metabolism in your body, and you can also eat them in food — especially from food that’s been dry cooked and browned at high temperatures (ATrusted Source).
Eating high amounts of added sugars can cause more AGEs to be produced in your body (C).
And having a higher concentration of AGEs in your body leads to oxidative stress and inflammation (12Trusted Source).