Sugar vs. Fat Which is worse?
When it comes to excess, sugar and fat are the protagonists of poor diet. Who is at fault?
Today, we are about three times fatter than in the 60s and is not because we are eating a lot more because we move less. In fact there is more variety of light food, more options and more access to sport them. What factor behind?
We know that fat and sugar are suspects when it comes to obesity, but still seem to go through life without understanding how to balance our diet. What fatter, fat or sugar? From which we must abstain?
The first and the last: nothing in excess is good, ever. So much for sugar as fat lot they are harmful and are directly related to cardiovascular diseases, such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, …show more content…
Then, because we want it: in addition to its pleasant sweet taste, sugar can lift the mood, by causing the body to release serotonin, the "happy hormone".
Finally, because it makes us dependent: very sweet food (simple sugar) fill us and leave us empty very fast. By having a "high glycemic index" cause a rapid increase in blood sugar in our blood and satiate us, but that does not last long. In a little while we return to need. We are doomed?
We are not plummeting to obesity if we know to stop in time. Chileans have been well loaded with sugar, leading the ranking in Latin America with a consumption of nearly 22 kg. processed (simple) sugar per person per year, according to a 2011 study by Iansa. What we must do is to lower the amount.
Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist and American obesity expert, explains that resembles sugar controlled drugs.. "We have to wean our lives we have to desendulzar We need to make sugar a pleasure, not a staple diet. " This is not to escape all meals and live traumatized for every taste than we. We know that is not necessary. But we should be more aware of what we are
When it comes to excess, sugar and fat are the protagonists of poor diet. Who is at fault?
Today, we are about three times fatter than in the 60s and is not because we are eating a lot more because we move less. In fact there is more variety of light food, more options and more access to sport them. What factor behind?
We know that fat and sugar are suspects when it comes to obesity, but still seem to go through life without understanding how to balance our diet. What fatter, fat or sugar? From which we must abstain?
The first and the last: nothing in excess is good, ever. So much for sugar as fat lot they are harmful and are directly related to cardiovascular diseases, such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, …show more content…
Then, because we want it: in addition to its pleasant sweet taste, sugar can lift the mood, by causing the body to release serotonin, the "happy hormone".
Finally, because it makes us dependent: very sweet food (simple sugar) fill us and leave us empty very fast. By having a "high glycemic index" cause a rapid increase in blood sugar in our blood and satiate us, but that does not last long. In a little while we return to need. We are doomed?
We are not plummeting to obesity if we know to stop in time. Chileans have been well loaded with sugar, leading the ranking in Latin America with a consumption of nearly 22 kg. processed (simple) sugar per person per year, according to a 2011 study by Iansa. What we must do is to lower the amount.
Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist and American obesity expert, explains that resembles sugar controlled drugs.. "We have to wean our lives we have to desendulzar We need to make sugar a pleasure, not a staple diet. " This is not to escape all meals and live traumatized for every taste than we. We know that is not necessary. But we should be more aware of what we are