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Excessive Sugar: A Simple No-No to Your Health

Maybe a slice of that moist and mouth-watering chocolate cake with light frosting wouldn't hurt, but a slice a day could. Learn what too much sugar can do to your health.

It's a pretty simple fact to digest: Excessive intake of sugar could increase your craving levels as well as the size of your waist. Yes, consuming too much sugar can lead you to weight gain and in the long term it will be the main factor of vital organs breakdowns. Many studies have revealed that sugar can cause an addiction of which putting you in a situation of you feeling like you can't live without it.

Candies will lead to more candies; milk chocolate will lead you to more creamy chocolates and as such. There will be a time when you feel weak and frequently tired because you haven't been taking anything sweet and also due to the weight gain. It will actually have your body react n such a way.

The simplest way of curbing this problem is to reduce your sugar intake, not in the sense of cutting it off after all but only to reduce the intake and eat more natural complex sugar like fruits.

So what are the troubles that excessive sugar intake can cause you? Below are some of the listed problems:

Your Teeth

Facts that you should know: a. teeth decays for 40 minutes after direct contact with sugar, and b. sugar thickens blood.

Therefore, if you take too much sugar until you can't keep track of taking care of your personal teeth hygiene, it'll lead your teeth to get rotten faster. The fact that sugar thickens the blood will disable lots of essential nutrients to flow and supply your teeth's health. This is because the capillaries are smaller in the gums and when the blood is thicker than usual it will eventually causes slow in-flow of blood around that area.

Your Body, Weight, and Overall Health

Facts that you should know: a. refined sugar contains zero fibre, minerals, proteins, essential fats, enzymes, and b. sorbitol is a type of sugar found in chewing gum, candies, frozen dessert, cookies and cakes.

Refined sugar with zero of anything that's good will require your body to borrow nutrients from other healthy cells to metabolise it. Therefore, it'll be more work with less fuel. This kind of condition will surely promote malfunction and malnutrition of the body cells. Over-excessive intake of candies and such (those contains sorbitol) can cause bloating and diarrhoea.

Over-consumption of sugar will also promote an increase of calcium excretion through urine. Thus, meaning that the more calcium that being flush out of the body, the more calcium you would have to take in too, if not you will probably suffer of calcium loss that will lead to weaker bones and kidney stones.

Another catastrophe disease caused by sugar is of course, diabetes. This disease has been among the killer disease in the world today. So, what does sugar got to do with this? The answer is a simple ‘plenty'. Diabetes is caused by the failure of the pancreas to produce enough insulin when blood sugar rises. The question: Why not enough insulin? Well, too much sugar in the blood will require more insulin to be produced and an overworked pancreas will eventually lose steam and couldn't produce enough insulin, resulting to diabetes.

So there you have parts of the many glimpse of the let down of excessive sugar consumption - too much of it could deteriorate your health, and at times, could kill.

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Comments (1)
#1 by s hayes, Aug 10, 2008
Very informative and well written article.
I confess that I eat far too much sugar - I love all things sweet even though diabeties runs in my family and I know all the risks.
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