Sugar is a product that is one of the most consumer. It is practically not used in its pure form, it is used as an additional ingredient. Everyone loves to eat sweet, to feel pleasure from it.
More than 100 years ago in Europe began to distribute sugar. In those days, the product was not a cheap treat for ordinary people, it could only be bought in pharmacies, as a medicine. Initially, sugar was extracted from cane, then began production from sugar beet. The product contains pure sucrose. In the human body, its disintegration into fructose and glucose takes place, which are assimilated in just a few minutes. This is an excellent source of energy.
Daily consumption rate
When it comes to sugar, this applies not only to refined sugar and sand from beets or reeds. Sucrose is just one of the varieties of sugar. Fruits and honey contain fructose, in vegetables, honey and fruits - glucose, in germinated grains - maltose, in lactose - lactose.
Natural products are much more useful than the produced product, but there is a nuance here too. When consuming natural products, a person does not even think how much sugar can be contained in them.
But how many sweets can be eaten a day so as not to harm your health? On the recommendation of the World Health Organization, a person can include up to 10% of daily calorie intake in his menu of sweets. This is about 60 g for men, and for women - 50 grams, with heavy physical work maybe a little more. This is about 10 to 12 teaspoons. If a person is healthy, then the active organism will cope with calories.
Do not forget that such a quantity is calculated not only for granulated sugar or fruit, honey, etc. You can read in the supermarkets the composition of your favorite sweets, cookies, and how much sugar contains in the soda! In total a cup of sweet coffee and a can of drink - all the daily limit is exhausted.
What is the harm of a sweet product?
Sweetness brings pleasure, raises mood, and children have eyes burning only with one kind of some goodness. As if it sounded unpleasant, but the sweet product instantly turns into poison, if you constantly get carried away by it in large doses. Here's what can lead to excessive consumption of sweets:
- Obesity. Sugar eaten by a person, is deposited in the liver. When the stocks of the substance exceed the required level, fat is stored. Most often it's the abdomen and thighs. When you use sugar in excess, obesity occurs. It is a high-calorie product, it does not contain minerals, vitamins and fiber.
- Immunity decreases. The more sugar in the blood, the weaker the immune system of the body. It is the presence of this substance that causes diabetes. When a person has this disease, his body can not absorb sugar, he starts to accumulate. Thus, immunity weakens.
- Aging of the body. With a large consumption of sweet premature wrinkles appear. The product begins to be deposited in the collagen of the epithelium, reducing the elasticity of the skin.
- Decreased energy. Sugar is a source of energy, but if you do not follow measures, everything ends in the opposite direction. When the product is overeated, there is a lack of thiamine, because of which the body is not able to fully absorb carbohydrates, and the energy received is insufficient for activity.
What happens in the body with B vitamins?
For the full digestion and absorption of vitamins in the body, vitamins of group B are needed. Sugar does not include vitamins. Therefore, for the absorption of sweetness, vitamins from the body( eyes, liver, blood, heart, muscles, etc.) begin to be removed. This will result in a shortage of B vitamins.
Excessive consumption of the product daily pushes vitamins out of all systems and organs. And this leads to the following consequences:
- excessive nervous excitement,
- pathology of cutaneous and muscular tissues,
- loss of vision,
- anemia,
- permanent fatigue,
- heart attack,
- esophageal dysfunction.
Addition of
When experiments were performed on rats, studies have shown that dependence on sugar arises. It also applies to people. If there are many sweets a day, then in the human brain, changes begin that are similar to those that arise from narcotic substances.
Sugar and calcium
With a significant eating of sweet, the ratio of calcium to phosphate is disturbed every day. When food enters the body, it can not absorb calcium completely. Excess calcium is excreted not only at the time of urination, but also the appearance of seals in soft tissues. When calcium comes along with sugar, it will not be absorbed. If you drink sweetened milk, the result is useless, only there is a risk of diseases associated with the lack of this element - osteoporosis, rickets, dental disease, weak bones.
Sweeteners
Sweetener is a nutritional supplement that is several times sweeter than sugar, but it is much lower in calories. Many nutritionists recommend these sweet pills. Unfortunately, it turned out that the sweetener increases appetite. In the end, the person is gaining weight again. If you use a substitute in large quantities, the work of the digestive tract is disrupted.
In some countries, artificial cyclamate is prohibited. Experts say that it causes kidney failure. Many other substitutes are also considered harmful to human health.
What should I do?
If a person cares about his health, then he needs to know and observe some rules:
- should limit the amount of sugar and sugar refined when adding to compote, porridge, tea, coffee, etc.,
- drink non-carbonated water,
- carefully read the compositioningredients in supermarkets,
- instead of canned fruits and dried fruits it is better to choose fresh products,
- to reduce the consumption of chocolates and flour.
Each person has an individual organism, but for everyone, sugar in large portions is dangerous to health. In order not to harm the body, it is necessary to count the calories of sweet in daily consumption.
