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 o you know that excessive sugar intake causes great harm to the body? It causes many illnesses, foremost of which is what many regard as a silent epidemic, diabetes. According to doctors, there are about 100 million people all over the world who suffer from diabetes, and its main cause is the excessive sugar intake, especially the refined sugar. It had been proven that taking in too much sugar is the primary cause of tooth decay and obesity, while eliminating sugar from the list of our foods removes the signs of many illnesses like diabetes, cancer, crippling, and heart ailments.
Sugar is a term applied loosely to any of a number of chemical compounds in the carbohydrate group that are readily soluble in water, colorless, odorless, and sweet in taste and are usually crystallizable. Generally, all monosaccharides, disaccharides, and trisaccharides are called sugar, aside from the polysaccharides like starch, cellulose, and glycogen. Sugar can be found anywhere in nature. It can be manufactured by plants through the process of photosynthesis. And it can also be found in many animal tissues.
Ribose, a type of monosaccharide sugar that contains five carbon atoms in its molecules, is a component of many animal cells. Other sugars that can be found in nature are pentose, triose, heptose, octose, and nonose. But the most common of them is the hexose’s sugar.
The most important among the hoxose’s sugars are glocose, galactose, anf fructose. Glucose, lactose, maltose, and sucrose are the most common forms of commercial sugar, which are also called saccharose, or cane sugar. And they are often used as a sweetening agent in the manufacture of candies, cakes, puddings, preserves, soft drinks, alcoholic beverages, and other foods. Almost half of the supply of sugar in the world comes from sugar cane, which grows in tropical and subtropical places.
In Europe, the most common source of sugar is the root of sugar beet, a plant that usually grows in Russia, France, Poland, US, and in other European countries. Countries that have the greatest production of sugar include Brazil, Cuba, Australia, Mexico, and India, wherein there are also high incidents of diabetes.
Do you know that sugar undergoes several processes in the sugar refineries? Sugar extract, or sugar beet, is cooked under a very high temperature in order to make it syrupy. And then, it is strained. After that, it is mixed with chemicals like sulphur dioxide to make it white. The sugar that is produced out of this process is called first sugar, or raw sugar. In the refinery, the raw sugar is again dissolved, whitened, and crystallized. The result is the white, refined sugar, which is basically without any nutrients, and it is even harmful to the body. The molasses is just one of the by-products of sugar manufacturing, which is being used in making ethyl alcohol, rum, and table syrup, also as flavoring and food for animals.
According to experts, sugar is lethal when ingested by humans because it provides only that which nutritionists described as empty, or naked, calories. Do you know that sugar absorbs many important vitamins and minerals in our body? And because of this, we feel weak and even get sick. The daily intake of sugar results to a continuous over-acid condition of the body. And to neutralize this imbalance, and to protect our blood, our body utilizes many vital minerals including calcium. As a result, our bones and teeth are denied of calcium, which result to dental decay. Excessive intake of sugar also affects many organs of the human body. These excesses are deposited to the liver in the form of glucose (glycogen). The excess glycogen goes back to the blood in the form of fatty acids, which become fats to the inactive areas of the body like the tummy, thighs, and chest. When these inactive areas become filled with fats, it will begin to affect the active organs of the body like the heart and the kidney, and it may also result to abnormal blood pressure.
Too much sugar intake also affects our parasymphatetic nervous system and its organs like the small brain, which may become inactive or paralyzed. It may also affect the circulatory or lymphatic systems. Because of this, the production of new tissues is hampered. This is the reason why wounds of a diabetic hardly heal. It also limits the tolerance and immunizing power of the body that is why it cannot respond to extreme attacks like cold, heat, mosquito bites, or microbes.
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