This eventually leads to a weakening of the immune system. With the weakened immune system, the body's initial reaction to certain foods changes to a chronic one. Chronic signifies slow progress that continues for a long time. If you continue to eat a food that results in allergies, the more the body is forced to adapt. This leads to an exhaustion of the enzymes necessary for proper digestion, and of the immune system, causing the body to move from a chronic reaction and adaptation to degenerative reaction and a diseased condition.
Degenerative disease indicates a worsening of physical or mental qualities.
In the case of such degenerative diseases as cancer, arthritis, and heart disease, the cells and tissues change. The functions of some cells and tissues may be stopped altogether, and the body has a hard time returning to and maintaining homeostasis. Eventually the entire biochemical balance needed for health is destroyed, and the continued imbalance is the cause of disease. We have now seen how sugar goes about unbalancing the body's mineral relationships and weakening the immune system. The damage from sugar manifests itself in many degenerative diseases and harmful conditions.