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Sugar Rush: What it Can Do to Your Health

By ebazaar ⋅ August 9, 2008 ⋅

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It’s a pretty simple fact to digest: Excessive intake of sugar could increase your craving levels as well as the size of your waist. Yes, consuming too much sugar can lead you to weight gain and in the long term it will be the main factor of vital organs breakdowns. Many studies have revealed that sugar can cause an addiction of which putting you in a situation of you feeling like you can’t live without it. It will actually have your body react n such a way.

So what are the troubles that excessive sugar intake can cause you? Below are some of the listed problems:

Effecting your teeth

If you take too much sugar until you can’t keep track of taking care of your personal teeth hygiene, it’ll lead your teeth to get rotten faster. The fact that sugar thickens the blood will disable lots of essential nutrients to flow and supply your teeth’s health. This is because the capillaries are smaller in the gums and when the blood is thicker than usual it will eventually causes slow in-flow of blood around that area.

Effecting your body, weight and overall health

Over-excessive intake of candies and such (those contains sorbitol) can cause bloating and diarrhoea.

Over-consumption of sugar will also promote an increase of calcium excretion through urine. Thus, meaning that the more calcium that being flush out of the body, the more calcium you would have to take in too, if not you will probably suffer of calcium loss that will lead to weaker bones and kidney stones.

Another catastrophe disease caused by sugar is of course, diabetes. Diabetes is caused by the failure of the pancreas to produce enough insulin when blood sugar rises. The question: Why not enough insulin? Well, too much sugar in the blood will require more insulin to be produced and an overworked pancreas will eventually lose steam and couldn’t produce enough insulin, resulting to diabetes.

The simplest way of curbing this problem is to reduce your sugar intake, not in the sense of cutting it off after all but only to reduce the intake and eat more natural complex sugar like fruits.

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