30/04/2019
Whether you have a sweet tooth or not so much, sugar in some form is added to almost every packaged food you buy. You are probably getting more sugar even too much sugar without even knowing it. The question is: how much sugar is too much?
Refined sugar (and its substitutes) is the bane of human existence, causing all sorts of illness, disease, and general malaise. A packaged food may not say “sugar” in the list of ingredients but it may be called by something else, like: Corn syrup/sweetener, Dextrin, Dextrose, Diglycerides, Disaccharides, Evaporated cane juice, Fructose, Glucose, High fructose corn syrup, Hydrolyzed starch, Malt syrup, Maltodextrin, Maltose, Rice Syrup, Sorbitol, Sucrose.
With all these sources of sugar, how do you know how much sugar is too much? If you experience the symptoms below, it’s high time you cut out sweets from your diet.
Sugar is addictive. It’s as addictive as co***ne and its effects are similar. Sugar stimulates the production of dopamine, a pleasure hormone. Without even thinking about it, we may crave sweets and simple carbohydrates to give ourselves a “fix”. And, like other addictions, the body builds up a tolerance for sugar so the more you eat, the more you want—even if you’re not hungry.
“The theory is formulated that intermittent, excessive intake of sugar can have dopaminergic, cholinergic and opioid effects that are similar to psychostimulants and opiates, albeit smaller in magnitude. The overall effect of these neurochemical adaptations is mild, but well-defined, dependency,” writes a study published in Neuroscience Biobehavioral Reviews.
