DEATH BY SUGAR

Sugar is simply the worst edible thing in today and can be a health hazard to all. It offers no nutritional value but is harmful to the body.

Any form of carbohydrate that is consumed ends up as glucose, in the blood. Whether it is sugary or not, refined or not, in the blood, it is processed as glucose.

Some common health hazards related to sugar or high carbohydrate intake are:

1. Heart disease

High sugar intake or high carbohydrate diet can put you at a high risk of several heart disease by leading to high blood pressure, obesity and inflammation. A diet high in added sugar stimulates the liver to release more harmful fats into the blood stream. Hence, high-sugar diets and sugary food items are best to avoid sugar to keep heart diseases at bay. 

2. Fatty liver diseases

Like glucose and other sugar types, sucrose too is exclusively broken down by the liver. And having an excess of sugar in the form of table sugar might overload your liver, leading to non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases. NAFLD is a medical condition characterized by excessive build-up in the liver. 

3. Obesity and diabetes

The risk of obesity and insulin resistance has been doubled up in the last thirty years. Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas that regulates blood sugar levels. Obesity and insulin resistance is often caused because of high sugar intake and considerably associated with diabetes risk. Sugar can actually trick your brain making you think you are not full, so you may tend to overeat. Some research even suggests that sugary drinks and foods make the regulation of calories by your body really harder and thus contributing to a cascade of risk factors and lifestyle diseases. 

4. Accelerated skin ageing

Wrinkles are the utmost natural sign of ageing but premature wrinkles can appear on the skin due to poor food choices like eating too much of dietary sugar. Advanced Glycattion End Products(AGEs) are the compounds stimulated by reaction between sugar and protein inside your body that also damages collagen and elastin, the agents that provide your skin with elasticity and youthfulness.