Sugar — Let’s Learn Some Dangers to Eat More Sugar

Some Risks / Dangers to Eat More Sugar

Sugar is highly addictive, freaking delicious, unfortunately pervasive and horribly delicious. It’s sugar most of the people think that sugary foods are tasty, irresistible treat and satisfying. But, people must add some more words if they eat more sugar — addicting, toxic and deadly. Sugar is the most harmful stuff that could be ingested by you and the terrifying thing is that the use of sugar is plenty in the daily diet.

What Nutrients does sugar contain?

It could be heard by you million times and repeating once again that sugar (or syrup of sucrose and/or fructose) does not contain any essential nutrients or calories. As a result, sugar is called “empty”/ “zero” calories. Moreover, it does not contain essential fats, proteins, minerals or vitamins, only contains pure energy. Eating about 10–20% of sugar calories are major problems that create deficiencies of nutrients and it provides digestive power for the harmful bacteria in our mouth.

Dangers or Risks of Public Health Eating more Sugar

This deep addiction to eating more sugary foods becomes rampant, among the adults and children. So, today let’s learn Some Dangers to Eat More Sugar:

Sugar lowers the immunity of our body

Research on the human body is not more, but the studies on animal have made confirmed that the immune response is suppressed by sugar. Although, it needs more research to understand the accurate mechanism, but we have learnt that yeast and bacteria feed easily on sugar, as a result, these organs lose the balance of immunity and get illness and infections.

Sugar Damages Liver

The extra sugar is stored in the liver as glycogen, because it’s friendly storage of glucose. When you eat refined sugar daily more than the requirement of natural sugar, it can be overloaded the space of storage limit in liver and it makes liver expanded. After reaching at the maximum capacity of storage, the extra glycogen is converted into fatty acids as well as it deposits in the parts that are inactive in our body, including breast, stomach, bottom and thighs. Some of the fat remains in our liver and over the time, this can turn to non-alcoholic the disease of fatty liver, and it could be caused damage the liver gradually.

Sugar Causes Heart Diseases

Researches have found that there is a link between sugar and blood fats of unhealthy levels, which is called “dyslipidemia”. Consuming of higher amount of refined sugar could be liable for lower HDL (good cholesterol) and higher triglyceride levels. It increases the risk of cardiovascular issues like heart stroke, heart disease etc.

Sugar speeds up aging

Sugar plays a significant task and the telltale sign of early aging like sagging skin. Sugar that we eat reaches in the bloodstream and then attaches itself to proteins and the process called “glycation”. The structures that are made newly loss the elasticity which is found in the body tissues, other organs and skin of aged persons.

Sugar Responsible for Obesity

Refined sugar effects on the human brains, which has the larger chance to be obese or overweight if someone eats extra sugar regularly. Consuming of excess of refined sugar can dominate over feelings of completeness, which means you never get satisfied to finish eating — continue eating — but a full plate of lean protein and veggies can make feel you fulfill for many hours. It happened due to empty calories in sugar and lack of essential food components like fiber.

Sugar causes gum disease & show the way of heart disease

Research evidence has shown that some chronic diseases like those that cause from the problems of periodontal, increases the risk of raising the coronary artery disease. The best theory of the disease is due to the connection with the inflammatory response of the body to infection.

How are the sugars that available in fruits?

Now the question is that how the sugars that available in fruits are. After reading the bad effects of refined sugars, people can think same about fruit sugars and stay away from them. The sugars are found in the fruits are natural and they contain many kinds of nutrients that are essential for our body, such as different types of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and fiber. These are daily needs of our body to keep it fit and well physically and mentally. So, eating foods daily are mandatory to meet the needs. But, we should keep in mind that fruits should be eaten fresh and not in excess quantities. Moreover, patients with diabetes should be careful of eating sweet fruits.

Now you have learned the negative impacts of refined sugars on the body and mind. You should carefully choose the foods to eat them. The first thing to learn about where sugar lurks are — you might not believe that foods need not require added sugar/refined sugar to increase their taste. Check the label of packed foods to know the ingredients. Diet foods do not refer free of sugar, they contain natural sugar, for example, the products of Atkins never contain refined sugar.

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