1. Why Sugar Is Bad
for Your Health?
It comes as no
real surprise to learn that consuming too much of refined sugar is bad for your
health. Everybody is probably already aware that enough scientific evidences
have been shown on this particular food product over the last several decades
to fill an entire library with data on this subject. What you may not be aware
of is the sheer scale of the widespread usage of refined sugar in all kinds of
daily foods. To really give you something you are unlikely to want to hear, if
you want to make an improvement to your health as well as avoiding the
possibility of contracting any types of diabetes, your intake of refined sugar
will need to be cut down drastically.
The health impact on Consuming Refined Sugar
Regular refined cane
sugar, sucrose, in its refined form, when digested is broken down by our bodies
into glucose and other simpler sugars that are used by the body for generating
energy. When this is only in the small quantities, there is no serious problem,
but when sucrose is taken in and broken down into large amounts of simpler
sugars at once, the blood gets a rush of these simple form sugars which causes
an imbalance in blood sugar, glucose, levels.
As a general rule
of thumb, the more refined the sugar you consume is, the more likely your body
will react negatively way to it. In this sense, the blood sugar, glucose,
levels are constantly rising and falling sharply when you ingest too great a
volume of sugars. This is countered to some extent by the body’s own regulatory
system in the form of insulin. Insulin is a hormone manufactured by the islets
of Langerhans within the pancreas. Its main job is to regulate blood sugar
levels. So when those levels get too high too quickly, insulin is released in
large quantities to break those sugars down fast and return the blood sugar
levels to equilibrium.
What happens is
that you get a fast rush of energy from the sugar as it’s processed and
released into the bloodstream. This is rapidly followed by a rapid drop in
energy as the insulin does its work. You then eat more food or drink more
liquids that contain high levels of sugars and the process starts again.
What this does is
put a tremendous strain on your pancreas in the constant creation and release
of insulin. Eventually, the strain becomes too much and insulin production
becomes erratic, meaning that glucose levels can no longer be effectively
regulated. This fact will lead to the onset of type II diabetes, which if not
diagnosed and is allowed to degenerate further can lead to type I diabetes,
which means having to manually injecting insulin to stay alive.
All in all,
everybody should be very aware of what you are having when it comes to refined
sugars, so read the labels of all foods carefully before making a purchase. The
best rule of all is to avoid as many processed pre-packaged foods as possible,
as well as fizzy soda drinks, and stick only to natural, fresh fruits and
vegetables with no added refined sugar.
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