Eating too many sweets can lead to four diseases
Introduction: Sugar is a food everyone loves, but it is a high-calorie food, and within its sweetness lies a threat to human health. In daily diets, those who have a preference for sweets often suffer from various diseases due to excessive sugar consumption. Can "sugar-free foods" help with weight loss?
◆ Vitamin B deficiency, toxins accumulate in the body
Solution: You can supplement by eating more foods rich in Vitamin B2: dairy products and their derivatives, animal liver and kidneys, egg yolks, eels, carrots, mushrooms, seaweed, celery, oranges, tangerines, etc.
After people consume sugar, the metabolic products produced during the breakdown of sugar to generate heat in the body require Vitamin B to be detoxified and finally excreted. Long-term excessive sugar consumption can lead to a deficiency of Vitamin B in the body due to excessive consumption, causing waste to accumulate in the body; at the same time, it negatively affects the body's heat energy metabolism, as well as the metabolism of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates, and the energy conversion in the brain and tissues.
◆ Causes high blood pressure and leads to obesity
Consuming too much sugar can stimulate an increase in insulin levels in the human body, increasing insulin and catecholamine secretion in the blood, which increases the activity of the sympathetic nervous system and directly causes an increase in vascular tension. This may be one of the reasons why high sugar causes high blood pressure. In addition, high insulin levels in the blood can also increase the kidneys' reabsorption of sodium and water, leading to water and sodium retention in the body, an increase in blood volume, and thus high blood pressure
Excessive sugar consumption causes the excess to be converted and stored as fat, leading to obesity, which is the root of many diseases.
◆ Osteoporosis caused by bone decalcification
Consuming large amounts of sugar or carbohydrates produces a large number of intermediate products such as pyruvic acid and lactic acid during the metabolic process in the body, causing the body to enter an acidotic state. To maintain the body's acid-base balance, alkaline substances such as calcium, magnesium, and sodium in the body must participate in the neutralization process. A lack of calcium in the body causes muscle hardening and weakened tension, disrupting the blood pressure regulation mechanism. A large amount of calcium being neutralized can also lead to bone decalcification and osteoporosis. An imbalance in the body's acid-base balance also accelerates the aging of human cells and reduces the body's ability to adapt to the external environment.
◆ "Sweet Tooth Syndrome"
What are the symptoms of "Sweet Tooth Syndrome"?
Mild cases are mainly characterized by emotional abnormalities, such as unexplained irritability, bad moods, willfulness, impulsiveness, and irritability.
It can also manifest as hair turning yellow and white, general body aches, cavities, and in children, weak eyesight and nearsightedness. Severe cases can lead to high blood pressure and obesity. Obese individuals are also more prone to atherosclerosis, high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, diabetes, breast tumors, etc. Once these diseases develop, the related clinical symptoms will appear.
How to prevent and treat "Sweet Tooth Syndrome"?
Fructose from honey and fruits is widely used in making beverages, desserts, fruit cheeses, and other foods. Although its sweetness is popular, consuming too much can easily lead to "Sweet Tooth Syndrome". How can this disease be prevented?
(a) For those who are sedentary or engage in light physical labor, daily sugar intake should not exceed 20 grams, and for those engaged in heavy physical labor, it should not exceed 30 grams; eat less chocolate; avoid sweets before bedtime.
(b) Limiting sugar is one of the non-drug treatment methods for preventing and treating obesity, atherosclerosis, high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, and diabetes. Patients with the above-mentioned conditions should control their intake of sugar and sugary foods to prevent their condition from worsening.