truth about sugar
(according to Dr Richard Jacoby – Sugar Crush)
Average person consumes 75kg of sugar a year : from sucrose fructose, glucose, lactose etc.
Many years ago when we only consumed sugar in it’s true form it was 12kg per year, now with it added into so many foods : sweets, pizza bases, soft drinks, juices, thickeners and alcohol etc we have gone out of control.
Per day some people are having up to 27 teaspoons of sugar!
Early signs of diabetes can be tingles in your wrists, burning sensation in your feet, mild numbness in your fingers that comes and goes, and the headaches that come out of the blue (many put the headaches down to dehydration – which yes in a way because you’re consuming so many carbo-hydrates – *think dehydration in body).
When sugar enters your body, simple carbohydrates are quickly dismantled into glucose (which passes directly from your intestines into the bloodstream to be used for quick energy) and fructose (which moves through your liver to generally be stored as fat). Your body needs glucose to function efficiently, as well as to store some fat to help cushion your organs.
Our bodies were made to get this sugar from vegetables and fruits in their correct season, not to eat fruit out of season and not have refined sugar pumped into our systems every day.
If we have a sugar supply that is either too frequent or too heavy pushes your pancreas into overdrive, causing it to release excess insulin – the hormone that transports glucose into your cells to be burned as fuel. If too much insulin it struggles to escort glucose into your cells by the intense force.
After many years of eating a lot of sugar your cells become more resistant to the insulin, therefore your blood glucose continues to rise as your overworked pancreas simply wears out.
Your make less and less insulin as your cells become more resistant – that’s called insulin resistant.
Just be aware that sugar is in prepacked everything, pizza bases, soft drinks, chips, biscuits, cakes, soup mixes, sauces, condiments, yogurts, cheeses, milk and everything LOW FAT. So please learn to read your labels and ingredients as much as you can.
