Sweet Disturbing Facts
refined sugar, insulin, obesity, mood swings, aging
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When it comes to nutrition value refined sugar is close to zero.
Because of the industrial processes involved in manufacturing, sugar has very, very little nutrition value: The vitamins and enzymes have become denatured (loose their molecular shape) and thus fail to contribute to the body's metabolic requirements. Refined sugar is also devoid of mineral content.
-It is pure energy
For those who frequently eat significant amounts of refined sugar products, this can lead to many problems.
Because a large intake of sugar causes a sharp rise in blood glucose, the pancreas jets out high levels of insulin as a sudden response. The insulin converts glucose into glycogen as storage in the liver.
However, the overreaction of high insulin more than converts the excess glucose. This results in the blood having lower than normal glucose levels. Consequently, hunger is felt. Remember that, an individual in this circumstance has more than enough glucose, but it has been converted as storage in the liver.
So the need to munch away again is carried out (more sugar perhaps?). The even more excess glucose from this next eating binge causes the glucose storage to get converted into fat...Frequent recurrences of this situation can lead to obesity and type '2 diabetes.
-It can cause Type-2 Diabetes
Diabetes is the body's inability to control the blood glucose levels. Diabetes type-1 is where there is insufficient insulin; a lack of insulin produced from the pancreas needed to regulate sugar levels. In the case of diabetes type-2 the insulin levels needed are sufficient. However, the insulin produced is ineffective: What this means is the insulin is not in any way defective but is ineffective in that the body's cells do not respond to it. With reference to the earlier point regarding the constantly high sugar intake and high insulin levels as a response: After a wh... read entire entry
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on 5/22/2008
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