Many people love to eat sugary or sweet foods. But do you know how dangerous sugar is for the body? Medical scientists at the University of California have found a direct possibility that sugar consumption increases the risk of long-term non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.
In a long study on the consequences of sugar consumption, they found that excessive sugar consumption can cause various types of toxicity in the body. Scientists have also found that sugar is associated with all kinds of metabolic diseases, such as high blood pressure, excess cholesterol, fatty liver, diabetes, obesity, and accelerated aging. For these reasons, another name for sugar is ‘white poison’ around the world.
Experts say that long-term diseases caused by sugar consumption are very slow and cannot be detected immediately.
According to experts, 40 percent of people who consume too much sugar can develop high blood pressure, diabetes, coronary heart disease, high cholesterol, and liver problems.
Several recent studies have shown that fructose in sugar causes liver toxicity and various long-term diseases. Thus excess sugar intake leads to a slow death in humans.
According to experts, just like tobacco and alcohol, sugar is addictive. As sugar is consumed, it stimulates the brain to eat more. Consuming sugar disrupts the normal flow of hormones such as ghrelin, leptin, dopamine, etc., which increases the feeling of hunger in the brain and makes us habituated to overeating. Studies have shown that excess sugar intake increases the risk of cancer in the human body and hurts intelligence.
Due to these reasons, the advice of experts to international organizations to protect public health is that it is necessary to take necessary steps to prevent the production, marketing, and consumption of sugar.
Recently, it is seen that the awareness about reducing the consumption of sugar as a consumer product is increasing day by day. Many schools and colleges in the developed world have removed these foods from their cafeteria vending machines to discourage children from consuming extra sugary foods such as fast food, soft drinks, and bottled juices. Therefore, we need to be aware of the dangers of sugar.