"Sweet" diet increases the risk of obesity, heart and vascular problems, diabetes, dental diseases. Often people do not even know that they eat too much sugar. The fault is the added sugar: these carbohydrate-partisans can be in different foods and drinks. They load the body with "empty" calories and destroy life.

Added sugars are added to foods during cooking and processing. It can be beet or cane sugar, malt, corn, maple syrup, fructose, dextrose, honey concentrate, molasses, fruit juices. If you see similar names on the package, know: you are trying to feed with extra calories.

Added sugars are common. For example, in the USA they are contained in approximately 80% of processed foods. One of the most important evils, according to experts, is sweetened drinks. Another common source is sweets, chocolates, cakes and pastries.

In a sense, sugar can be considered a legal drug. From the point of view of neurology, delicious food, including sweets - is a reward for the brain. When you eat sweet, a substance called dopamine. The brain says to itself: "And this cake is very tasty! Perhaps it's worth eating a bit more ». The more a person consumes sugar, the worse without it are activated dopamine nerves. Over time, an increasing dose is needed. Does not it look like anything? The natural consequence of sugar dependence is the tendency to overeating. So, the risks of health problems listed above will only increase.

Sugars - the fuel that the body uses to produce energy. With added sugars, the body receives more calories than it can consume, and a sedentary lifestyle goes into an appendage. Unpaid energy is stored in reserve in the form of fat. One study, in which 4,000 people participated, showed that one or more servings of sweet aeration a day increases the risk of obesity by as much as 37%.

The spread of the obesity epidemic is largely due to increased consumption of fructose sugar. If you compare two diets with the same number of calories, one with more fructose is more likely to lead to obesity, diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Fructose is processed by two enzymes: fructokinase C and fructokinase A. Fructokinase C causes obesity, diabetes and fatty liver degeneration.

Research results show that added sugars, as well as fatty foods, increase the level of "bad" fats in the blood. This is bad for the condition of the heart and blood vessels. So, if one or more sweetened drinks are drunk daily, the risk of hypertension rises by at least 20%, and if you eat two or more 2% or more, the risk of coronary heart disease increases by 35%. It is important, what part of calories a person receives from added sugars. Scientists found that if this figure is more than 21%, the risk of death from cardiovascular disease is increased by 38%.

Recall, this is a condition in which the body cells become less sensitive to insulin. Added sugars increase the risk of diabetes in two ways. One of them is obesity.

The second is the constant intake of sugar in the blood, with which the body must somehow cope. When the resources are not enough, the cells begin to react worse to insulin, the function of the pancreas is broken, inflammation develops. Studies have shown that people who consume 1-2 servings of sugary drinks every day suffer from type 2 diabetes 26% more often than those who consume not more than one servings per month.

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