Most of us now know that sugar is harmful and should not be consumed. We even reduced the sugar in our tea and avoided sweets. We did well, but why do we have to remove this sweet and beautiful thing from our lives? How aware are we of the destruction that sugar causes when it enters our body?
Here is the path sugar follows when it enters our body:
The sugary food you consume undergoes some mechanical and chemical digestion in your mouth and stomach and enters your intestines. income. Digestion is completed here. Sugar, namely sucrose, is divided into two parts here: Fructose and Glucose. Then both of them make their way to the Liver. Once here, the glucose is used immediately for energy or packaged and stored for later use. However, the job of Fructose (this part is a bit troublesome for our body) is not as easy as Glucose. Because fructose is not found in abundance in nature and therefore the liver does not have a system to regulate it. Incoming fructose is immediately sent from the Liver. If all our warehouses are full, then this is the terrible end... Whoop! fructose is immediately converted to fat. Since the liver is a storage organ, it is also affected by this fat. All of these cause risks such as insulin resistance and diabetes.
Another thing is that this fat in the liver does not only stay there, but is also sent to the bloodstream. These fats circulating in our veins can cause diseases such as excessive obesity and vascular occlusion.
Let's talk about insulin. Now let's say we consumed a lot of sugar and carbohydrate sources (bread, pasta, etc.) during the day. With their digestion, a large amount of glucose enters the bloodstream. With the presence of glucose, the hormone insulin is secreted immediately. Insulin acts as a key here and allows glucose to enter the cell. Therefore, the more glucose we have in our blood, the more insulin is secreted. The important point here is the effect of insulin on fat cells. Insulin, which helps glucose enter the cells, ensures that fat cells hold on to their location. In other words, the fat burning process is shut down!
We also know that excess fat in our body is the cause of many diseases. The most common ones are vascular occlusion These are diseases such as heart attack, atherosclerosis, insulin resistance and diabetes.
The fact that these diseases are increasing day by day is worrying. That is why the World Health Organization has set a lower limit. He explained that the portion of a person's daily energy requirement coming from sugar should be less than 10%, and that it would be much healthier if this rate was below 5%.
For example, if we make the following calculation; The maximum amount of sugar (5%) that a person with a daily energy requirement of 1800 kcal can consume daily should be 22.5 grams. This makes about 4.5 teaspoons. It is very important for our health not to exceed this amount.
Now you can compare how much sugar you consume according to this measure and balance your consumption...
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