Facts about sugar- A simple carb

Don’t eat or drink excessive sugar

What is sugar?

In your kitchen you always find tea container along with sugar container. Sugar is a milky white small-small crystal, in scientific language it is also known as ‘simple carbohydrate’. The other carbohydrate you can find in sweet fruits, vegetables, like beet, sugarcane, apple, oranges, banana, dates, dry-fruits even in wheat, rice, corn but these all are ‘complex carbohydrate’.

All types of sweets, biscuits, cake, ice-cream, cold drinks which tested sweet because of sugar. In the whole world you can’t find out person who never test sugar.

Sugar is prepared from sugar cane juice. By processing on to sugar cane juice jaggery is prepare and after refining this jaggery (exclude all types of nutrition) sugar is form, which also known as ‘cane sugar’.  Sugar is also prepared from beet root, countries like Germany, where sugar cane crop is not found their major source for sugar is beet root. It known as ‘beet sugar’, but the test is similar to cane sugar.

When you feel so much tired and weak, if you drink sweet lemon juice, instantly you feel fresh and energetic, so it’s give you instant energy. But the other side, if you consume too much sugar you unknowingly invite so many diseases in your body, so let’s understand what happen in our body when you eat too much sugar and how to prevent it.

Why should avoid too much sugar-

1. Sugar is an empty calorie:

Sugar is made up from sugar cane after refining (by removing the entire nutrient). In scientific term it is known as ‘simple carbohydrate’. Which is actually an empty calorie. If we calculate one gram of sugar have 5 calorie, it mean one teaspoon of sugar have 25 calories. So if you add more sugar in your meal, you just add more calories to your food, without addition of nutrition.

2. Your body weight increased:

This was not new to you, but the more sugar you eat, the more you will weigh. Generally healthy woman and man need 1800 and 2000 calorie from their food. We all desire sweets, biscuits, cake, pastry, and chocolates, our hunger will easily arouse by just seeing these type of delicious foods, by consuming these foods we gulp lots of calorie, and in addition these types of food digest fast, so we feel hungry again very soon. So we eat repeatedly and ultimately our weight will increase.

Our body secrets ‘leptine hormone’ which balance our calorie intake, but if we eat too much sugary food, this hormone is disturbed and we lost our control on hunger and we eat more then actual necessary and increased weight. According to research, in our country, adult person consume 25 kg sugar/ year.

3. Increases your risk of Type 2 diabetes:

In our human body, there are insulin producing cells, ‘the islets of Langerhans’ cells, in the pancreas that make and secret insulin hormone, which helps to balanced blood sugar level. If we consume so much sugar in our food for long period, these cells become weak as it has to produce more insulin to digest and as end result these cells become weak and decreased or stop the secretion of insulin from it which leads to Type 2 diabetes.

4. Tooth cavities :

Sugar is bad for teeth, we all know this truth.  Many different types of bacteria live in your mouth, some beneficial for health while some are harmful. Reputed eating of sweet and sugary food causes mineral loss in teeth enamel. Over time it weakens and destroys the enamel and form cavity.

5. Heart diseases:

According to new researches, whenever you consume sugar and sugary food, the HDL (good cholesterol) will decreased and increased LDL (bad cholesterol) in blood, these leads to increased chances of high blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity.

When you consume sugar in your food it will convert in to fructose in liver and increased ‘triglyceride’ in blood and increased chances of heart attack.

6. Acne and other skin complains:

Yes, eating lot of sugar can affect your skin. Eating food with high sugar leads to inflammation in the body, and this affects the skin. Too much sugar will aggravate some skin diseases like acne and eczema. If you are prone to inflammation, it’s best to limit the amount of sugar you consume.

7. Your chances of having cancer increased:

Cancer cells usually grow quickly, and multiplying at a fast rate in sugary medium. Every cell in your body uses blood sugar for energy, but cancer cells use about 200 times more than normal cells.

8.  sugar cause fatigue: Research shows that person who eats more processed sugar like cake, pastry, chocolates, sweets like food items will disturb ‘neurotransmitters’, and affect on your mind and cause depression.

9. Sugar can harm your liver. Liver uses one type of sugar is fructose. Too much refined sugar and high-fructose food cause fatty liver disease. Sugar can be damaging to the liver as alcohol.
10. Sugar increased ‘uric acid’ level in blood.

More fact about sweet taste:

1. You not need to stop natural sweet foods like dates, honey and fruits.
2. Beet root, sweet potato, green peace, tomato and other fruits and vegetables which have sweet is actually very good for health, because they contains complex carbohydrate.
3. Some people use alternative of sugar like aspartame, saccharin, sugar free, and sucralose, but this are more dangerous than normal sugar because these substances contains artificial sweetener which is really health hazards. So it’s always better to eat natural sugar but in required proportion.
4. Some times for misleads buyer, on food packets food companies uses some names like dextrose, maltose, fructose, sucrose which is actually a sugar and on syrup packets they writes corn syrup, brown sugar, fruit nectars, honey or molasses. These al are sugar based food items. So never miss lead by it.
5. Normal quantity of sugar consumption will never gain your weight; it only happens when you eat sugar in very large amount, along with other fatty, oily and processed refining food. Which has zero nutritive value.

Always be very conscious about whatever you put into your mouth.

Stay fit stays healthy.