Sugar is a name for sweet taste carbohydrate which transform in to pure energy for your body. However, high dosage of it can malfunction systems of your body. And here are some of reasons that you should avoid sugar to get better health.
1. Sugar is pure energy: As stated before that sugar is pure calories for your body because it doesn't contain any nutrients, no proteins, no vitamins, no minerals. 100 gram of sugar can transform into 387 calories or about 1/5 energy your body needed in 1 day.
2. It can damage your liver: Sugar will break into glucose and fructose once your body consumed it. Fructose is a problems one here because it can only metabolized by liver. Liver will turn fructose into glycogen but once it full of glycogen, it will turn excess fructose into fat. This can lead to fatty liver and other serious problems such as cardiovascular disease or diabetes.
3. Major factor to NAFLD: As above said that excess of fructose can produce fat that stay in liver. This called Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) and it is a cause to fatty liver which associated with insulin resistant and metabolic syndrome (obesity, combined hyperlipidemia, diabetes mellitus (type II) and high blood pressure).
4. Cancer is near: There are many factors that can cause cancer such as high insulin levels and metabolic malfunction which happen because high consumption of sugar. Many studies show that people who eat more sugar have more risk of getting cancer.
5. Fructose cause you to eat more: There are studies about how fructose affect your brain, results show that that fructose doesn't lower hunger hormone ghrelin like glucose does so this can lead you to get unnecessary extra calories.
6. It can be addictive: Sugar can stimulate your body to produce large amount of dopamine in your brain. This can cause your body to have more and more sugar because natural food cannot do it.
7. Cause of heart disease: There are new studies show that sugar might be the main reason for heart disease because fructose's effect to your metabolism. Large amount of fructose can rise triglycerides, small, dense LDL and oxidized LDL (very, very bad), raise blood glucose and insulin levels and increase abdominal obesity.
You better avoid adding extra sugar to your meal and exercise regularly if you want a healthy life.
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