What is sugar doing to our health?

The love of the sweet taste is an inborn trait. Many people have an intense desire for sweet treats, sometimes after every meal! Some nutritionists claim that sweet tastes are essential to our body balance. We humans both enjoy and need things that taste sweet and should not feel guilty when we have a desire for them. But how to satisfy our sweet tooth if almost all health care professionals warn against sugar intake. Sugar, in various forms, is found in just about all processed foods and soda pop.

We concluded that sugar is not good for our body, but why it is bad?

First of all, sugar feeds candida. Your question will probably now be - what is candida? Candida is a fungus that typically lives harmlessly in people. However, if your inner ecosystem is out of balance and your immunity is weakened, you are at risk for a fungal infection, like candida. The granulated sugar promotes wrinkling and aging skin, rots your teeth, raises your blood sugar level, and contributes to obesity, diabetes, heart problems. Both granulated sugar and high fructose corn syrup go through a refining process, they are called "empty calories" because they offer no nutritional value. In addition, they are addictive and rob your body of energy and health. Yes, sugar is addictive (almost as much as drugs). Hard to believe isn’t it? Dr. Nancy Appleton claims that Americans each consume more than 150 pounds of sugar and related sweeteners each year. It's pretty easy for it to add up when you consider that there are 17 teaspoons of sugar in a single can of Coke.

So are you sugar addict? Do you love to take your sweets in the form of chocolate, beverages and soda pops even you are familiar what can it cause to your organism? Even you know that there are alternatives which will satisfy you urge for sweetness? The most of people thinks that if something is without sugar then it isn’t natural, it isn’t tasty and delicious. It isn’t true. There are a lot of tasty meals, beverages, drinks and cocktails which contain low-sugar but high-flavor and that should be our goal: to make a plan for weaning yourself from the sweet stuff and starting your new "low-sugar life." After some time, you will feel the energy your body produces which was taken from you by those little sugar cubes. Of course this journey will be a hard one, but at the end you will be satisfied to have a small bowl of ricotta and fruit, while others will destroy their body with ice cream or cake. I mentioned the fruits, you will say – well fruits contain sugar too. Yes, they are. But there is a difference between naturally occurring sucrose in plants and the sucrose found in granulated sugar or the high fructose corn syrup often used to sweeten processed foods. So, you can eat fruits and don’t feel guilty about doing that.

This time we get familiar with the sugar and some of his negative effects to our body. In the next article, we will talk about artificial sweeteners and about food and drink recipes which will help you stay, on your sugar free journey.