Almost all people in varying degrees, like sweet. Someone thinks like a real sweet tooth, while others consume sugary foods occasionally. Both suspect that sugar is harmful, especially in large quantities, but not all fully aware - as it is harmful, where the rate of consumption and how much sugar is contained in the products that seem safe. Attribute gastronomic "dolce vita" on closer examination turns out to be "sweet poison". Sugar is bad, with this knowledge is put up and reduce the sweetness of his menu.

"Time bomb

Once the sugar was worth its weight in gold: it was hard to get, it was introduced into the exquisite pastries, which could not afford the poorest people. Today everything has changed, it is inexpensive and is in every house. Some people drink tea with two or three spoonfuls of sugar, others are drinking black coffee with a bit of sugar cake - this high-calorie and sugar "bomb."

Some do not even think that it is sweet tea daily in the amount of several cups prevents lose weight, adding them from year to year. But excess weight - is not the only negative effect of excessive consumption of sugar in the body. The list is much longer, and it is read carefully.

Deficiency of vitamins and minerals

One of the unpleasant features associated with the consumption of sugar - its ability to influence the content of nutrients in the body. For example, to learn the refined sugar, the body has to spend its reserves of calcium, and that weakens the bone and muscle tissue, tooth decay and gum weakening. It also causes a deficiency of chromium, literally neutralizing it in foods that are used together with sugar.

Accelerated aging

This fact was not known, otherwise, many women once and for all would forget about cakes and sweet tea, to whom can not resist. Sugar violates the structure of the protein in the body that leads to the destruction of collagen-elastin skeleton of the epidermis, weakening the tone of the skin and premature wrinkles and sagging. At the same time it prevents full assimilation of protein, which is the main building material for tissue, which negatively affects the whole body.

Increased acidity - a violation of the digestive system

Sugar mouth causes increased salivation, increased acid content in the oral cavity, which leads to tooth decay, i.e., decay, weakening the fabric with bleeding gums. Acidity increases and in the stomach, which is particularly harmful to people with chronic diseases such as gastritis or ulcer. A large number of sugar causes a spike in insulin production by the pancreas, which increases the load, as well, and the liver. Uncontrolled consumption of sweets leads to the wear of the pancreas, which should regulate the content of the normal level of sugar in the blood, it leads to diabetes.

Emotional instability

We all know how people can be addicted to sweet, which becomes an antidepressant. It is sad and melancholy? You can eat chocolate, a delicious piece of cake, and depression is gone. All because of the effect of sugar on the brain, which sits on this sweet injection and asks them whenever there is a reduced emotional background. But this seemingly positive features there is another side.

Firstly, along with improvement in mood may be anxiety, hyperstimulation, and irritability. Second, the sugar is rapidly absorbed into the blood, but quickly takes its decline and the body is experiencing increasing stress hormones. All this leads to emotional instability, mood swings, irritability and general depending on how sweet the drug.

Other negative aspects of sugar consumption

According physicians sugar is harmful to the whole body and its organs and systems in particular. Many of the negative properties of sugar are not fully studied, but there are conditions that allow experts to argue that sugar clearly harmful. It is believed that it provokes the formation of cancer tumors, increases the risk of eye diseases caused by allergic reactions, damage blood vessels, is bad for the heart muscle, leading to the formation of cellulite Cellulite   due to fluid retention (as salt), affects the respiratory system, in particular, increases the risk of asthma Bronchial asthma   and emphysema.

Of course, one can not say that a cup of sweet tea will lead to cancer of an organ, but it is necessary to bear in mind all the dangers of refined sugar, and try not to oversell the virtues of "dolce vita".

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