Alert on sugar: Children or adults should consume less sugar daily

SUGAR: It’s sweet in taste but sour for health, sugar intake has become a major concern in society and especially for healthy life. Studies show that high sugar consumption to increased risk of obesity and related diseases. To attempt to help on the problem, we have issued new recommendations for added sugar intake among children and adolescents.

Added sugars while making syrup and drinks- Including fructose, glucose and high-fructose corn syrup - that are added to foods and drinks during processing or preparation, mainly for taste and preservation. High sugars are present in candy, cakes, soda, soft drinks and many other foods and drinks that are attractive to children and teenagers, it is perhaps no surprise their sugar intake is so high. Children under the age of 2-5 should not consume any added sugars at all because children of this age do not require the calorie intake of older children and adults, so there is not enough room for the empty calories provided by food and drinks containing added sugars.

High added sugar intake linked to heart disease risk factors

Our opinion and recommendation is for all children between the ages of 2 and 20 to keep it simple for better health. Doctors suggest most children, eating no more than 6 teaspoons of added sugars per day is a healthy and achievable target. The results showed that high intake of added sugars during childhood can lead to the development of heart disease risk factors, including obesity and high blood pressure. Children who eat foods loaded with added sugars tender to eat healthy foods, such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains and low-fat dairy products that are good for their heart health. The risk of developing such health problems increases with the more added sugars a child consumes, and children who are already overweight who carry on consuming added sugars are at greater risk of insulin resistance, making them more likely to develop type 2 diabetes.

Sugar- sweetened drinks remain a leading source of un-healthy life

The most common sources of sugars among children are sugar-sweetened drinks, such as soda and energy drinks. This will perhaps come as no surprise to many, given that a single 500ml bottle of cold drink can contain more than 10 teaspoons of sugar. Children should not drink more than one 500ml cold drinks a week yet they are currently drinking their age in sugary drink servings each and every day mostly. We suggest appropriate nutritional daily diet will lead your health on right way. Without knowing knowledge of intake food and preservative drinks will lead your health in worst condition. It’s better to take care of choice on food and drinks while eating at home or outside.

Sugar Contains No Essential Nutrients and is Bad for Your Teeth

You’ve probably heard these thousands times from doctors and elders… but it’s still repeating to get rid from sugar. Added sugars (like sucrose and high fructose corn syrup) contain a whole bunch of calories with NO essential nutrients. There are no proteins, essential fats, vitamins or minerals in sugar… just pure energy. Sugar is also very bad for the teeth, because it provides easily digestible energy for the bad bacteria in the mouth.

Sugar is High in Fructose, Which Can Overload Your Liver

In order to understand what is so bad about sugar, there you need to understand what it is made of. Before sugar enters the bloodstream from the digestive tract, it is broken down into two simple sugars… glucose and fructose.

·         Glucose is found in every living cell on the planet. If we don’t get it from the diet, our bodies produce it.

·         Fructose is different. Our bodies do not produce it in any significant amount and there is no physiological need for it.

The thing with fructose is that it can only be metabolized by the liver in any significant amounts. This is not a problem if we eat a little bit (such as from fruit) or we just finished an exercise session. In this case, the fructose will be turned into glycogen and stored in the liver until we need it. However, if the liver is full of glycogen, eating a lot of fructose overloads the liver, forcing it to turn the fructose into fat. When repeatedly eating large amounts of sugar, this process can lead to fatty liver and all sorts of serious problems. Keep in mind that all of this does NOT apply to fruit. It is almost impossible to overact fructose by eating fruit. There is also massive individual variability here and People who are healthy and active can tolerate more sugar than other UN-healthy people.

Sugar Can effect Insulin Resistance, a un-healthy step towards Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes

Insulin is a very important hormone in the body. It allows glucose (blood sugar) to enter cells from the bloodstream and tells the cells to start burning glucose instead of fat. Having too much glucose in the blood is highly toxic and one of the reasons for complications of diabetes, like blindness and other diseases from diabetes. One feature of the metabolic dysfunction that is caused by the Western diet is that insulin stops working as it should. The cells become “resistant” to it.

This is also known as insulin resistance, which is believed to be a leading driver of many diseases… including metabolic syndrome, obesity, cardiovascular disease and especially type 2 diabetes. Many studies show that sugar consumption is associated with insulin resistance, especially when it is consumed in large amounts.

Sugar effects on hormones and the brain

Not all calories are created equal as we consumed. Different foods can have different effects on our brains and the hormones that control food intake. Research shows that fructose doesn’t have the same kind of effect on fullness as glucose. In one study, people drank either a fructose-sweetened drink or a glucose-sweetened drink. Afterwards, the fructose drinkers had much less activity in the satiety centers of the brain and felt hungrier.

Over time, because the calories from sugar aren’t as fulfilling, this can translate into an increased calorie intake.

Sugar is a Leading Contributor to Obesity in Both Children and Adults

The way sugar affects hormones and the brain is a recipe for fat gain problem. It leads to decreased fullness… and can get people addicted so that they lose control over their consumption. Surprisingly, people who consume the most sugar are by far the most likely to become overweight or obese. This applies to all age groups.

Many studies have examined the link between sugar consumption and obesity and found a strong statistical association. The link is especially strong in children, where each daily serving of sugar-sweetened beverages is associated with a 70% increased risk of obesity.

One of the most important things you can do if you need to lose weight is to significantly cut back on sugar consumption.

Sugar raises your cholesterol and gives you heart disease

From time by time, people have blamed saturated fat for heart disease… which is the brutal killer in the world. The evidence is mounting that sugar may be one of the leading drivers of heart disease via the harmful effects of fructose on metabolism.

Studies show that large amounts of fructose can raise triglycerides, small, dense LDL and oxidized LDL (very, very bad), raise blood glucose and insulin levels and increase abdominal obesity. These are all major risk factors for heart disease. Surprisingly, many observational studies find a strong statistical association between sugar consumption and the risk of heart disease.

Sugar is the newtobacco; control it to live healthy life.