Like most normal girl, I am a sugar addict without realising them... esp during examination and busy days, the things to keep me going usually chocolate, biscuit, Starbuck, energy drinks, all types of teas...but most of time, white chocolate, white mocha, white chocolate... I am not a big fan of dessert but i love bakery...custard bun, butter bun, cream bun n bla bla bla... All of things are high in sugar...
In my countries, we use sugar all the time... in our drink, in our cooking... but what we don't realise that other carbohydrate also break down into glucose which is a simple form of sugar... that is why diet which are high in sugar are not really a healthy option... high intake of sugar usually link with obesity and diabetes... but the reality is that it is more than that... every time we eat food which are high in sugar, our pancreas work extra hard to realise insulin to balance the sugar level... but up to one point, through so much hard work, this system fails... like us also, when we works so hard, then up to one point we will be so exhausted and flat... but when this fails, the blood sugar level in our body don't have hormone to maintain its function... we always heard about high blood pressure... diabetes is actually a term for high blood sugar... this is a metabolic disease where body does not produce enough insulin or cells in our organ no longer respond to insulin...This is fact that most people know about sugar...
but other than that, there are many more consequences that we face when our diet is high in sugar before diabetes come in... one thing is that constant hunger...when we fuel our body with lots of sugar...we will be super energetic for one moment... then when the blood sugar drop we tend to feel tired and that is why we keep on wanting to eat to stabilise our blood sugar level... The second effect of diet high in sugar also making people feel so tired and sleepy....this is also due to the constant increase and decrease in blood sugar...
but again as we know it we need some form of sugar in our life for energy... if not, the condition of hypoglycaemic which up to some extend is really dangerous and fatal... as we know, carbohydrate also break down into sugar...by eating carbohydrate we already have sugar in our system... we don't need excess of refine sugar .. things like chocolate, ice cream, ice blended drinks, dessert have little nutritional value, nothing but just sugar... but again once in a while, it is okay to have a treat.. but to consume all this every single days, it is really bad for our body... the second solution is that eating every 2-3 hours... this make sure that our blood sugar have a consistent level... the constant increase and drop in sugar is what is dangerous because it causes pancreas to work extra hard to balance this... up to one point, the ability to function will be less effective... and the last but not least, decrease in intake of carbohydrate... as we know carbohydrate break down also into glucose which is a form of sugar...excessive intake will produce the same result as eating too much chocolate, coke cola and etc..
I am a big fan of tea... i drink from 4-12 cups of tea every single day from a very young age... when i cant put sugar in my drink, it kind of hard... what i recommend is that to cut down sugar intake slowly in your diet... i cut sugar straight away once i start the program and it is quite dangerous... unless there is someone motoring you, it is safe to cut down all intake... after a week, i feel so weak... i feel tired all the time... this is some sort of sugar detox process where your body tried to adapt to the changes... that is not the scary part... the scary part is that during the third week where i had a very scary mood swing... i have so much anger and sensitivity where i don't know coming from where...i got angry over every single things... and also sensitive over every single words that people say.. this is also result from drop of sugar intake... but trust me, after you go through that, you will be amaze with so much energy that you have when you cut sugar... but we still need sugar, we can have them from intake of carbohydrate like rice, bread, apple... i don't recommend cut off sugar intake straight away unless you think like me, you have an urgency to lose weight... what you can do is that reduce the amount of intake and when you ready you cut it off... so that you don't have extreme fatigue and crazy mood swing... if you want to have more energy, this is one of the most effective solution... no sugar policy...good luck
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