Is sugar really make me fat?

Sugar per se is not bad for health. Naturally, a healthy body will be able to take care of all the sugar that its host eats. Sugar is a form of carbohydrates which our body converts into energy for purpose of driving our daily activities.

Those excessive sugar we consumed (in the form of calories) will be converted into fat and stored in adipose tissue. It is an imbalance of energy, you take in more energy (calories) that what your activities or exercise could burn off, you gain weight as a result.

You should be more concerned with the long term effects that excessive consuming of sugar could bring. During manufacturing, sugar has gone through processes which strips off all the vitamins, proteins and precious minerals. What left behind is just pure form of starch and carbohydrates! Our body cannot utilize this refined starch and carbohydrate unless the depleted proteins, vitamins and minerals are also present.

In addition, sugar is worse than nothing because it drains and leaches the body of precious vitamins and minerals through the demand its digestion, detoxification and elimination makes upon one's entire system. Excessive consuming sugar will result in a series of harmful chain reactions.

1) Resulting a more acidic conditions within our body, calcium is taken from the bones and teeth in order to attempt to rectify the imbalance. So we are seeing bones and teeth begin to weaken;

2) Affecting every organ in the body. Initially, it is stored in the liver in the form of glucose (glycogen). Since the liver's capacity is limited, a daily intake of refined sugar (above the required amount of natural sugar) soon makes the liver expand like a balloon. When the liver couldn't handle the excess glycogen, it will be returned to the blood as the form of fatty acids. Blood will transport them to every part of the body and stored in the most inactive areas: the belly, the buttocks, the breasts and the thighs. When these comparatively harmless places are completely filled, fatty acids are then distributed among active organs, such as the heart and kidneys. These begin to slow down; finally their tissues degenerate and turn to fat. Then heart starts to have problem and early signs of chronic diseases start showing ...

3) The problem don't just stop here unless immediate corrective measure is taken. The entire body is affected by reduced ability of active organs. Abnormal blood pressure is one of the common symptoms. There are a lot more complications than these which are beyond the context of this article.

Appropriate amount of sugar is not necessary bad to our body, as long as you lead a healthy lifestyle with regular exercises.






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