What is inflammation, what does sugar have to do with it, and how do you reverse it?
Inflammation
Sugar Crush Analysis Sugar. It tastes so good, and is present in nearly everything we eat. Many people consume a lot more than what is recommended daily, most women consume fourteen tablespoons over the recommended daily values. Men about eleven tablespoons over. (Moyer 95, 98).…
The article “9 Shocking Facts You Need to Know About Sugar” by Larry Schwartz was published on alternet.org on 24 August, 2014. The author reveals shocking statistics about today’s sugar consumption in relation with the increase of certain diseases and explains why most people have a hard time controlling it. I have a weakness for sweets. Chocolate, candy bars, cakes with frosting, ice cream, and soda; I crave all the sweet stuff. Not only did the variety of new sweetish products grow, even the majority of processed foods contain incredible amounts of sugar, which makes us consume a lot more of it unconsciously.…
It’s delicious. It’s addictive. It’s deadly. One of the main problems with sugar is that it contains absolutely no nutrients.…
Though not all sugars are bad for you, the majority we consume are not good for our health.…
I know that sugar can be detrimental to your health, and that too much of it can lead to diabetes and obesity. Unfortunately for me diabetes runs in my family, my father and brother have the disease and in my extended family a number of my aunts and uncles have it. I know that I have a higher chance of getting diabetes than most people, and now being so busy I don’t have the time to make preparations to eat healthy. I do try to limit the amount of sugar I take in, to avoid diabetes, but now after learning about the ill effects that sugar can have on your mind and thinking, acting like crack and cocaine. I decided to try this one day, with all the left over Halloween candy I had, I ate about 10 pieces of candy and then tried to read a book.…
Sugar can bring about the development of kidney stones. Sugar can make the hypothalamus turn out to be profoundly touched to an assortment of jolts. Sugar can make you dazed. High sugar eating regimen can bring about free radicals and oxidative anxiety. High sucrose consumes fewer calories in subjects with fringe vascular illness fundamentally expanded platelet bond.…
Sugar is an energy source that balances our diet, but too much sugar can also damage our health. Most of us go over our daily sugar intake of 4 teaspoons a day because we crave sugar and its taste. When you eat sugar, dopamine is released in your brain which makes you feel good and makes you want to eat even more sugar. Although sugar makes you feel better, it may not in the long run. Fructose, a sugar substitute, can accumulate in your liver and over time cause scarring and cirrhosis, a liver disease that never goes away.…
By overloading foods with sugar, salt, and fat, many consumers are manipulated by large food industries to ensure addiction. Going over the daily recommended value of these ingredients, consumers begin to gain weight as well as other diseases. Obesity is now becoming a rising epidemic due to the overuse of these ingredients and is known to be one of the most expensive to cure. With products being high in sugar, salt, and fat, the limbic system in the brain begins to crave more and more of these particular foods. Many of these products are both cheap and inexpensive which appeals to anyone who is hungry and wants to save money.…
Dr. Lustig even goes as far to suggest that sugar should be classified as a poison due to the number of health issues it causes. And yet every year we stuff ourself with more and more of the substance. Courtesy of www.eidon.com. The correlation between sugar intake and death rates seem exceptionally well correlated. We are literally living in a society that is conspiriing against us, one that will forever make us fatter and more unhealtly.…
Sugary drinks are the crux of what is wrong with the western diet. They contain sugar but no fiber or anything else that the body has to break down first to get access to that sugar so it goes straight to our blood causing spikes in our blood sugar and in turn causing our body to pump out insulin. The consumption of sugary beverages has long been tied to diabetes due to this negative effect on our bodies regulation of blood sugar. They are also a leading cause of obesity. Sugary drinks are estimated to cause about 180,000 deaths a year around the world.…
Obesity is one of the reasons why many people have not been able to lead a healthy life. The amount of sugar in a cup may seem little at the time, but in the future it becomes a problem and we start to regret it. People consume more than they wish to, due to the fact that they can get a bigger cup for a little more price. Sugary substances are not described as one of the most concerned reason for weigh gain, but it is taken into consideration. Over weight causes many health problems, such as diabetes, heart problems, high blood pressure, and many more.…
So sugar provides you unhealthy empty calories, it stimulates your appetite, it has addictive…
Eating healthy allows students to have the energy to perform well in school and sports. Foods that contain a lot of nutrients and vitamins offer a long digestion time, giving you a slower and stable release of energy (Straight Health). The longer the digestion will take, the longer your energy will last. Principals often call during the week standardized testing to say to get plenty of rest and eat a healthy breakfast. A healthy breakfast can actually help students with testing because a meal containing complex carbohydrates, protein, fat, etc. can prevent a drop in blood sugar and allow students to last throughout the day (Healthier).…
Sugar is addictive and I have experienced it myself. Even now when I control my sugar consumption I get carried away sometimes. It’s so addictive that even if you take a bite of it you will want another bite and your cravings would increase, your taste buds would ask for more and you end up eating the whole serving and in turn harm your internal health. Sugar is carbohydrate…
Eating Healthy Last week when I went to the grocery store, I found that the price of food was a little bit on the expensive side. As I walked through the aisles of the store I heard a voice behind me saying that trying to eat healthy is like a luxury, you know like getting your hair done. You do not need it, but you want it. We both chuckled and parted ways. Then, I started thinking that if I really wanted to eat healthy then it is worth paying the price.…