The Disadvantages of Sugar

Why Sugar Is Bad for Your Health

Sugar is not good for health and will accelerate aging

Although sugar is delicious and pleasant, everyone knows that sugar is not good for health. It will not only accelerate aging, affect sleep quality, make gout develop or worsen, and even affect memory. Let’s learn about the disadvantages of eating too much sugar.

The disadvantages of sugar:

Skin aging and acne formation ~ If you start to abstain from sugar for a period of time, your skin texture may improve significantly when you look in the mirror. A study1 found that sugar in food destroys collagen in the skin, makes the skin loose and loses its elasticity, and accelerates aging. Reducing sugar intake can prevent skin from aging, and it will look younger.

Foods with a high glycemic index (GI), such as processed desserts, raises blood sugar and insulin levels faster than foods with a lower glycemic index, leading to increased secretion of androgens, oil and inflammation on the skin, and acne formation.

Decreased sleep quality ~ Want to sleep well is not only related to caffeine, sugar is also one of the reasons! A study by the University of California in the United States shows that high sugar intake is related to reduced restorative sleep. People who eat more tend to wake up easily and sleep unsteadily. Poor sleep quality can affect the mental and state of the next day, and reducing sugar can make people sleep better.

Memory loss ~ Eating sugar is closely related to the memory function of the brain. When there is too much sugar in the diet, it may cause insulin resistance, thereby destroying the synaptic part of the brain and impairing the function of cell communication and data storage.

In addition, studies have pointed out that drinking soda with artificial sugar is associated with a higher risk of cognitive impairment.

Upset ~ Although people often say that desserts are the most “healing” food, as long as you eat desserts, unpleasant things will be forgotten. It turns out that sugar addiction can lead to negative emotions! Studies have pointed out that some foods and beverages high in sugar, such as cakes and sodas, have a higher risk of depression.

A study followed 8,000 people for 22 years and found that people who consume less than 40 grams of sugar per day have a 23% lower chance of suffering from depression than those who consume more than 67 grams of sugar per day.

Increased risk of diabetes ~ A study analyzed people in 175 countries and explored the health effects of sugar intake. It turns out that depending on the source of calories, an extra 150 calories a day will have different effects on health.

When people consume calories in the form of sugar, they are 11 times more likely to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in their lifetime. However, no increased risk of the disease was found in the extra fat or protein calories.

Feeling tired, not energetic ～ When feeling tired, many people like sugar-sweetened foods, including so-called energy drinks and caffeine-containing drinks, but after removing the sugar, we can naturally have more vitality. In other words, sugar will hinder our body’s ability to store energy, if you remove the sugar, and the feeling of fatigue in the afternoon will be reduced.

Cause obesity ～ Most sugars are accompanied by high fat or high carbon, and at least they contain a lot of unwanted substances. After quitting sugar, your body does not need to process extra calories, you will not feel hungry, and then you can lose weight, or at least maintain a stable weight.

Risk of cancer ～ Scientific research has found that 57% of the sugar in the blood is consumed by cancer cells, while about 80% of the glucose in the blood flowing through the tumor is absorbed by cancer cells. If you compare the same weight of cancer cells with the brain, the amount of sugar consumed by cancer cells is twice that of the brain. Moreover, the method of cancer cell proliferation and differentiation is special. As the range of spread increases, the more nutrients are needed, and it is easy to transfer and spread to organs rich in blood flow and nutrients.

Consume body energy ～ Although eating high-sugar foods can increase blood sugar and insulin levels, allowing the body to obtain more energy, the effect of this energy increase is short-lived.

Some foods with only sugar but lack of protein, dietary fiber or fat will have a sharp drop in blood sugar level after providing energy. The body may not have enough energy to maintain long-term activities.

More susceptible to gout ~ Gout is an inflammation. Patients will feel pain in their joints, which will recur from time to time in the future. Eating sugary foods will increase the level of uric acid in the blood and increase the risk of gout formation or worsening.

Reduce and try to avoid sugar

Keep blood sugar stable:

Change personal eating habits, choose whole grains with low glycemic index and quantify them regularly. Foods with protein in each meal increase the feeling of satiety, based on the principle of not being hungry.

Fill the desire for sweets with positive thoughts:

When you have the temptation of sweets, change things to do, for example: exercise, walk, etc., strengthen willpower to resist.

Don’t substitute sugar substitutes:

According to research conducted by the University of Texas Health Science Center, drinking soda containing sugar substitutes every day will increase the incidence of obesity. It is recommended to choose natural honey, fructose, and oligosaccharides, but it is safer to take a small amount.

*Sugar control is not anxious and should be done step by step. Start little by little every day, and slowly control the amount of sugar, and eventually the desire for sweets will decrease.

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