Most of us don't realize it, but we are drug addicts. Our drug comes in a pure, white crystal or powder form. We use it even when we don't know we're doing it. It's in salad dressing, peanut butter, soup, pickles, bread, jam, yogurt, canned fruits and vegetables... We crave it after every meal. On an average, each of us consumes about 130 lbs. per year. What is this controversial drug, you ask. It goes by many names, but the most common is 'SUGAR'!!!!!!!!.
Sugar addiction!!!- Are you surprised to hear this?....Dont be; cause it realy exists. Sugar addiction is the term used as for the relationship between sugar consumption and addiction to it. Some scientists assert that consumption of excess sugar or sugary products could have an addiction like effect.Sugar addiction is a term popularly applied to individuals who express difficulty controlling intake of sweet foods or beverages. Sugar influences the same "feel-good" brain chemicals -- including serotonin and dopamine -- as illicit drugs.
Refined white sugar is a pleasure drug. If you don't believe, just put a spoonful on your tongue and observe the instantaneous effects. You'll experience a warming, comfortable feeling that makes you feel safe and happy. They're not called "comfort foods" by accident.Sugar is, essentially, a legalized recreational drug that's socially acceptable to consume. And yet, just like other drugs, it destroys a person's health over time, rotting out their teeth, disrupting normal brain function, promoting heart disease and directly causing diabetes and obesity.
So,now the question is... Is sugar is harmful to human health? The answer is...:YES'! There are some negative sides of sugar addition.
1. Sugar can suppress your immune system and impair your defenses against infectious disease.
2.Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in your body: causes chromium and copper deficiencies and interferes with absorption of calcium and magnesium.
3.Sugar can produce a significant rise in total cholesterol, triglycerides and bad cholesterol and a decrease in good cholesterol.
4.Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function,leads premature aging.
5.Sugar feeds cancer cells and has been connected with the development of cancer of the breast, ovaries, prostate, rectum, pancreas, biliary tract, lung, gallbladder and stomach.
6.Sugar can weaken eyesight,lower the concentration power.
7.Sugar can cause many problems with the gastrointestinal tract including: an acidic digestive tract, indigestion, malabsorption in patients with functional bowel disease, increased risk of Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis.
8.Sugar can cause your saliva to become acidic, tooth decay, and periodontal disease.
9.Sugar contributes to obesity, formation of gallstones, appendicitis,osteoporosis.
10.Sugar can lower your Vitamin E levels,increase blood pressure, cause drowssiness and lower the activity.
11.Sugar can interfere with your absorption of protein.
12.Sugar causes food allergies.
13.Sugar can cause atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.
14.Sugar can impair the structure of your DNA.
15.Sugar can change the structure of protein and cause a permanent alteration of the way the proteins act in your body.
There are many other negative effects of sugar consumption in excess level like an addiction. So the decision is yours.... What will you want to do
