For thousands of years, sugar was unknown to man, and man lived and developed without sugar. Until 500 years ago, only a few people knew about sugar. And now, among all food additives, sugar is the most widespread.
The average person eats an average of 60 to 100 kg of sugar per year. However, from the point of view of a healthy diet, sugar is the most unhealthy food that leads to the degradation of the body and causes degenerative diseases.
What are the effects of sugar
Refined white sugar from cane or beets is free of proteins, minerals, vitamins, and fiber. It is more than 99% pure simple carbohydrate and is more like a chemical drug. Once in the body, it quickly turns into glucose and passes into the blood without the participation of digestion. In the body, it is absorbed into the blood so quickly that it requires an excessive amount of insulin and then leads to a decrease in blood sugar levels to a dangerously low level, causing a condition called hypoglycemia. This condition manifests itself as a decline in energy, fatigue, slowness of movement, anemia, dizziness, cold body, nervousness, low blood pressure, rough skin, darkening of the eyes, poor vision, cyanosis, hair loss, causeless depression.
Many people suffer from this disease and do not even know about it. At first glance, this may seem absurd: how is it that a person who on average consumes about a kilogram of sugar per week, as a result, has a blood sugar content below the norm? However, eating too much sugar does lead to a decrease in its content in the blood. When a person who suffers from hypoglycemia eats a candy, the pancreas begins to release insulin, lowering blood sugar levels and depleting the stores of glycogen (a source of easily available energy) in the liver. As the supply of glycogen decreases, the liver begins to send a signal to the brain in search of help – and "suddenly" the hypoglycogenicist has a strong desire to eat something sweet. When the sugar enters the body again, the cycle repeats.
Sugar in the form of glucose supplies energy to the entire body, so its lack can weaken any organ, primarily the brain, which needs glucose for normal functioning. The widespread and excessive consumption of sugar in our time is the primary cause of many mental and emotional disorders.
Food that cools the body
Sugar and protein always work together. Excess sugar leads to a preponderance over proteins and cools the body, makes it tired, leads to a lack of energy, creates a thirst for meat. Sugar also cools sexual desire, reduces sexual ability, and leads to frigidity, impotence, and sterility.
The Nutrient Thief
The worst effect of sugar is that it steals vital nutrients from us. It removes calcium and other minerals, depletes the supply of proteins, leads to the leaching of vitamins, for example, vitamin B1, which leads to the spread of caries, causes osteoporosis, painful destruction of bones, is one of the true causes of rickets. Even the poorest people buy sweet food with sugar, and then complain about the lack of money. This is at the same time a loss of money and a loss of nutrients, but the damage to the body is significantly greater than for the wallet.
Eating your own tissues
With an excess of sugar and a lack of protein, people's bodies become sluggish, sagging, fatigue, weight loss, slowness and all the above-described symptoms appear. The consequences are the same as with a lack of nutrition. Many types of atrophy – muscle atrophy, sclerosis, arthritis, and others-are associated with excessive sugar consumption. These are actually degenerative diseases.
The negative effect of sugar on blood clotting + depletion of proteins + lack of calcium and salt gives rise to hemophilia and other bleeding diseases.
Heart disease is caused by a combination of sugar and animal fats, which are deposited in the arteries as the substance of cholesterol.
Two body types, obese and lean, can be the result of excessive sugar consumption. When you eat enough protein and a lot of sugar, then the body becomes fat. When there is not enough protein and a lot of sugar, then the body becomes thin, loses nutrients and weight. Thin people for this reason are predisposed to respiratory infections, colds, flu, tuberculosis and pneumonia.
Doctors from the London Medical Research Council found that the consumption of refined sugar leads to changes in the bacteria on the intestinal mucosa. These changes result in the breakdown of bile salts and the formation of cancer-causing substances.
Sugar and alcohol
Like sugar, alcohol is derived from carbohydrates. Alcohol has a similar chemical structure to sugar and causes effects similar to those caused by sugar. Although the chemical formulas of alcohol and sugar are similar, and they have similar effects, yet sugar is worse than alcohol, because people are poorly aware of its destructive effects. Sugar leads to the degeneration of the body without the participation of our consciousness. Degenerative changes occur daily in the bodies of those people who unconsciously consume excessive amounts of sugar. Sugar hides behind its fake sweetness. This is the false sweetness of the drug that we take and that is on our tables, because on every kitchen table there is a sugar bowl with sugar.