Sugar High
Why is too much sugar bad for the body?
Here are some great reasons why we should all keep ourselves from
going on a sugar high.
Sugar promote inflammation.
Inflammation, which is part of the immune response,
is not always a bad thing. But eating sugar foods can fuel excessive, inappropriate inflammation that serves no useful purpose and actually promotes aging and disease.
Sugar promotes glycation.
Sugar molecules treat your body like a singles bar. Once they get into your bloodstream,
they start looking around for things to hook up with, like attractive protein and fat molecules.
the hook up is known as "GLYCATION" and like most hook ups, the results are not pretty.
These glycated molecules act like drunken sailors, careening around your body,
breaking things and peeing where they shouldn't.
They produce toxic compounds called advanced glycation end products, or, AGE's.
That is perhaps most poetically-just acronym in biology, because AGE's
essentially throw the aging process into fast-forward.
Much of the damage done by AGE's is irreversible, If that doesn't
motivate you to walk away from the M&Ms, I don't know what would.
Unstable blood glucose.
Eating too much sugar causes our blood sugars to go haywire. When the
sugar levels in our blood fluctuate, they lead us to feeling fatigue and exhaustion.
Headaches and mood swings are also apparent when the blood glucose is unstable.
Moreover, the more sugar we take in, and the more unbalanced
our blood sugar becomes, and the more sugar our body craves in order to fix the imbalance it perceives.
Obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
This is also somewhat common knowledge for all of us.
Sugar in the blood that is too much for the body to consume completely is stored
as fat. Too much fat in the body can lead to obesity, and obesity is known to trigger diabetes and heart disease.
Malfunctioning immune system.
The bacteria and yeast that are present in our blood stream feed on sugar
and cause them to multiply. If these are an imbalance in the growth of these
bacteria and yeast, our immune system may not be able to handle it. It could
therefore, weaken.
Stress.
When we eat too much sugar, we go on a sugar high because of the energy
boost we get from sugar consumption. But this sugar high is only temporary;
our energy level takes a plunge afterwards. When this happens, the
body releases hormones to bring the sugar level in our blood back to an optimum
level, and these hormones include stress hormones: adrenaline, cortisol, and epinephrine.
These hormones make us irritable and stressed out.
Cognition.
Too much sugar in the body also affects our mind's ability
to learn and recognize.
