Sugar causes many problems in the body because of the underlying imbalances that it creates. Those imbalances lead to inflammation all over the body. That inflammation leads to many kinds of chronic illnesses. A high sugar diet coupled with other kinds of things such as overuse of various kinds of medications and other dietary practices is a great recipe for disease including IC. Why are we seeing so much more chronic illnees these days? Because of all of these things that we think of, as a society, as common place and benign. Sugar tastes sweet and yummy, but what it does-NOT SO SWEET! http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article861546.ece