The True Health Effects of Sugar on the Body

Posted on June 15, 2007 under Health

If you’re like many people, you love sugar-rich food and drinks. Sugar in the morning, many people believe, will wake them up and get them going for the day. However, with that boost, sugar can also hurt a person’s body more than we think it can. Just having more than one soda per day can really raise your weight gain by around 80 percent. Hard to believe something millions of people love drinking can cause so much weight gain. Some people choose to use artificial sweeteners for their coffee because they still get the sweentess without the calories.

Sugar can affect the body in many ways. Sensitivity to sugar can cause a lot of pain to your body such as, headaches, panic attacks, bad temper, insomnia, hostility, mood swings, and despair. The majority of people know that a sugar-rich diet can also cause type-2 diabetes, obesity, and inflammation.

Several food products contain sugar and can be very hard for the body to digest. Studies have shown our bodies actually work harder in sugars afterburn to re-establish metabolic homeostasis.

When a person has an overload of sugar it can upset the sense of balance of intestinal flora in their digestive process and can cause symptoms of intestinal agony such as swelling, bloating, spasms, and gas. In fact, the intake of too much sugar can even reduce serotonin levels - the neurotransmitter that has been connected to various levels of depression when levels are lower than normal in a person’s body. Low levels of serotonin can even act as a catalyst that triggers one’s sugar cravings.

One main side effect of sugar that many people already know is tooth decay. Several kids and adults eat or drink sweets everyday. The worst thing that causes cavities is anything that sticks to the teeth such as caramel or taffy. If kids eat too many sweets at one time, there is a short-term drop in their blood sugar level about 2 to 4 hours after eating the sweets. Therefore, make sure your kids don’t eat their sweets all day long, but every once in awhile is just fine. Always make sure kids brush their teeth regularly after eating and if they eat really sweet foods or drinks, have them brush after that as well.

Enter Stevia Rebaudiana - a miniature perennial plant, belonging to the Chrysanthemum family. This plant is the only recognized kind that has the ability to sweeten like sugar but without the above mentioned effects. The Stevia plant also has more to offer than just being sweeter than regular granulated sugar:

Sugar is a big part of our lives. It’s in the food and drink we consume everyday. Enter the modern age with its highly developed food-processing techniques and cost-concious food companies and Tada! Refined sugar is all over the place and in everything - it’s truly a food processor’s dream. All because with sugar it comes cheap and in bulk, so today, people buy their product over the less sweetened products. So now, they make more money off their product with sugar and it keeps us on track for gaining weight and sometimes in cases of too much sugar, causing us to have other health problems.

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