Eating fruit at night harms the body; excessive sugar places a heavy burden on the liver
Introduction: Fruit is rich in various vitamins and is a health food that is good to eat more of, but if you don't pay attention to the time you eat it, it can also lead to health problems! Let's tell you about the bad effects of eating fruit at the wrong time. Fruit contains a large amount of fructose, which is very harmful to the body if eaten at night. Come and learn to avoid health problems from eating!
There is a saying: "Fruit in the morning is gold, by night it becomes copper." This means that eating fruit in the morning is good for the body, but eating it at night is not. Has anyone ever wondered why?
The reason eating fruit at night is bad for the body is that fruit contains a large amount of fructose.
The culprit behind fatty liver and visceral fat is sugar, especially fructose and table sugar (sucrose). This is because fructose molecules are small and can be quickly converted into fat after absorption. Could the cause of fatty liver be excessive sugar intake?
A follow-up study was conducted on about 1,300 patients diagnosed with fatty liver over a period of about five years. At the time, it was widely believed that the three main causes of fatty liver were "obesity," "diabetes," and "excessive alcohol consumption." However, the survey found that in many cases, the actual situation did not fit the above three, and it was "unexplained fatty liver."
From this, it is clear that it could not be "obesity." The real reason that emerged was "unbalanced diet," especially "excessive sugar intake."
Based on a dietary habits questionnaire for fatty liver patients, it is noteworthy that some people who eat large amounts of fruit instead of vegetables, and those who often drink canned coffee or vegetable juices.
In addition, for five years, these fatty liver patients were asked to assist in the survey by recording their dietary intake. It was found that after five years, overall, patients who reduced their carbohydrate intake showed more improvement in fatty liver than those who reduced their lipid intake.
So, experts conducted an experiment with rabbits. They fed three rabbits with feed containing sucrose, fructose, and starch respectively. The result was that the rabbit with the most fat in its liver was the one that ate the feed mixed with fructose, followed by sucrose, and then starch.
In other words, even among carbohydrates, fructose and table sugar (sucrose) are more easily converted into fat than starch. I suppose the difference is naturally due to the size of the various sugar molecules, which varies by absorption rate. Fructose has the smallest molecules and is absorbed fastest from the small intestine, entering the liver through the portal vein to be synthesized into triglycerides.
A survey report investigated the correlation between carbohydrate intake and the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in 12,000 people.
The results of this survey showed that among men, the higher the proportion of carbohydrates relative to total calorie intake, the higher the prevalence of metabolic syndrome. Men whose carbohydrates accounted for more than 60% of their total calories had a 1.7 times higher chance of developing metabolic syndrome compared to men whose intake was between 40% and 60%.
Fruit contains vitamins, minerals, and dietary fiber, and of course, it has its benefits, but the daily intake should be controlled to within 200 grams. In addition, consuming more than 50 grams of sugar per day will increase triglycerides. Of course, foods like white rice or bread are also sources of sugar, so you must not eat too much of them. However, you should never use the method of completely cutting out white rice to lose weight.
Because sugar is also the only energy source for the brain, it is estimated that the brain consumes about 500 calories a day, all from glucose broken down from carbohydrates. Using a no-carbohydrate method to lose weight will naturally lead to an energy deficit in the brain.
In this situation, the brain will use glycogen stored in the liver as an emergency energy source, but the storage of glycogen can only last for up to two days. Once it is depleted, the liver will produce sugar from protein.
At this point, what happens if there is no protein in the body either? The body will then turn to the protein in the muscles. In other words, sacrificing muscle for the brain's sake.