Sugar Epidemy

Sugar Epidemy

The sugar takes a big place in our life because it’s almost in every food. For example, in fruits and vegetables. Do you think we should take off the sugar in food and drinks? Most people are agree with this idea. Let’s discuss the history of sugar, how sugar affects your brain and your body.

Believe it or not, but if sugar exists it’s because people of  New Guinea started to domesticate sugarcane, approximately around 8,000 before Jesus Christ. After domestication, sugar came is diffused to Southeast Asia and southern China. The treatment of cane juice into granulated crystals was a process developed in India.

Sugar can has a lot of bad consequences for the body. After animal studies, scientists discovered that it can affects the immune function and generate some infections considering bacteria and yeast feed present in sugar. Blood glucose is also a obstacle that we have to deal with, it might feels you better for a limited time, but after a few hours it can causes mood swings, headaches, fatigue and hunger. According to The Center for Parenting Education, more than 13,000 children are diagnosed with diabetes each year. Gum disease, the latest discovery about negative sugar effect is called glycation process. It is now proven that  sugar affects your skin by wrinkling, loss of elasticity, stiffness, accelerated aging and compromised barrier function. Glucose raises the risk of obesity and heart disease.

Sugar can provokes damage to the brain. Something in the sugar can make us addicted to always eat more of this “white substance” because it releases feel-good hormones, like dopamine. Because you eat more sugar, it increases your stress level and your blood sugar.  Also, the glucose can affect behavior and cognition in children. The major obstacles that might happen are depression and anxiety. One of the depression’s cause is neuroinflammation, in other words, inflammation of a nerve or of parts of the nervous system. When your blood sugar drops, you might feel anxious, moody, nervous or depressed.

In conclusion, we should take off the glucose in what we eat, because taking too much of this substance can have negative repercussion for the body and the brain. Did you know that many Americans eat about five times the amount of sugar they should consume? People should pay more attention to the sugar levels in  food.

 

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/262978.php

http://www.sugarhistory.net/who-made-sugar/sugar-timeline/

https://www.atkins.comn/how-it-works/library/articles/10-ways-sugar-harms-your-health

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sugar