Good day to you dear steemians <3
Today i wanted to share with you some knowledge on added sugar and how it effects us, so lets begin.
Introduction and what is sugar:
Averge american consumes 66 POUNDS of sugar every year, Soda and sports drinks are the largest source of added sugar in the american diet. Added sugar doesn't just make us fat it can also make us really sick. Mainly liver disease, diabetes and hearth diseases.
Some people only connect sugar to obesity, altrough sugar can actually make you really sick even without making you fat! So don't take your weight as a measure of your health condition please! :)
Another thing is that in this post don't appeals only to people that drink 19 cans of coke. It appeals to everyone that reads this post.
White Sugar like this:
Has sucrose in it. Sucrose is made up from glucoze and fructose. The most problematic is fructose, we can say that it's even toxic to our body. So glucoze we kind of digest absorb and our body use it. Fructose in the other hand is digested, absorbed and processed slowly by the liver. So all the sugar that we eat, half of it goes to the liver, but it can't process it so fast. So if our liver get overwhelmed it starts transformating this sugar into fat, so the liver becomes fatty. Fatty livers is one of the components of the diseases i will talk about.
Liquid sugar:
Liquid sugar such as soda, energy drinks sport drinks and all this "fruit drinks" without fruits... Are representing 36% of the added sugar we consume. Researches suggest that our bodies process this type of sugar different than the sugar in foods especially the ones containing fiber. For example eating an apple, could get us 18 grams of sugar but it's packed in one-fifth of our daily requirement of fiber. Our bodies takes their time to digest that fiber and thanks to that this sugar is slowly released into the blood stream giving us stable sourbe of energy.
But sugar drinks, don't contain that fiber and the journey from digesting to blood streams happens really quick and our organs are overwhelmed by it. Causing blood rush, diabetes, hearth disease and liver disease.
4 major chronic diseases that are consequences of sugar intake:
- chronic periodontal disease, this one makes you lose your teeths. It makes eating fresh vegetables and fruits much harded for example. (it's like never ending circle because you can't kinda eat healthy things lol)
- cardiovascular disease, which means hearth disease and stroke. There is a big relation before high sugar intakes and this diseases.
- type 2 diabetes - Really horrible disease related to blindness, amputations, kidney failures and many more.
- liver diseases and liver failure.
Sugar hidden in 74% of package foods.
Many of us think that added suggar is mainly found in all type of cookies, cakes any many other things but it's not so simple. Many foods that are promoted as "natural" and "healthy"
contains added sugar as well under different name.
Check also my post about: Why you should eat plant-based diet.
https://steemit.com/health/@babettxx/reasons-to-become-vegan-not-the-ethical-ones
Resteem, upvote and comment please! :)
Much love
Sources:
http://sugarscience.ucsf.edu/
Images:
http://thelifepile.com/2016/03/25/2283/
http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2012/08/05/sports-drinks-myths-busted.html