Ha--ha--ha--ha--haaa… Sugar… is … your DOOM!
No. But seriously. It actually is. For most of us, our first encounter with sugar at its purest was probably when we were around 3 years old. That sweet ol' lady that would visit us from time to time had a bunch of 'em in her handy Clutch bag. The minute they touched our lips, our taste buds where immediately introduced into a whole new world (insert Disney song*).
From that moment on, until the day of today we haven't been able to get enough. Do you wonder why sometimes? Well, as far as addiction goes, because we have been consuming sweetened products for so long, our brains have created an attachment to them & the sugar. And that, putting it simply is the reason for our addiction. More stories on this series & how we may curb the addiction later. For now, on to that Doom List :(
1. Can Cause Weight Gain
Shocker. Who doesn’t know this, am I right? The real question though is, what are you prepared to do with this knowledge?
Especially drinks that have a high concentration of sugar, like our Coke & Fanta (even the diet one), sweet teas, juices are known to be loaded with fructose, a type of simple sugar. Consuming fructose though, increases hunger and your desire for food more so than if you were to consume glucose
(glucose is the main type of sugar found in starchy foods)
Excess fructose is also found to cause a resistance to the hormone leptin, which is important to monitor hunger and to tell us when to stop eating.
If that’s not bad enough, there is a fat known as visceral fat, a kind of deep belly fat associated with diabetes & disease, in which its increase in amount in our system is linked with drinking a lot of sugary beverages. Don't consume too much added sugar, especially from sugary drinks.
2. Increases Your Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
On this note, by the way, did you know you could get diabetes, even if you're not over weight? Yeah right, crazy I know!
Research of over more than 30 years, has shown a clear link between consuming too much sugar and the risk of diabetes. And obesity, is considered among health organisations to be the biggest risk to unfortunately developing diabetes.
Our blood sugar levels are regulated by insulin, regular excessive sugar consumption drives our bodies to resist the hormone insulin. If this happens to you, your blood sugar level will rise. Blood sugar levels increasing doesn’t mean in itself that you will certainly become diabetic though, but it does mean that you'd be increasing your risk in developing type 2 diabetes. Think about preventing that. It would be better than cure!
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