Sugar: The Silent Killer

If you like cookies, cakes and ice cream, this entry might not be as enjoyable to read. In any case, I did not tell you : sugar is bad news. According to esteemed researcher Robert Lustig UC San Francisco , sugar can be very bad for us. How bad ? We speak toxic. According to Lustig and the work of other researchers, in a purely bases calories calories without other foods that make us fat faster than sugar. In fact, this simple carbohydrate was so refined that has little nutritional value , except for the huge amount of energy it contains . Check the list below to see what the sugar is pure white and deadly.
empty caloriesIn its natural form , sugar is actually quite healthy . Why ? He wrapped a lot of fiber . You really have to spend a lot of effort just to get into the sugar found naturally in nature. To take the example of the sugar cane, you have to eat a lot of fiber to reach the sugar cane. Natural cane sugar is essentially a sweet post. Now, thanks to technology, we get sugar and no fiber . As a result, we get only empty calories that make us fat.
Body stores energy in the sugar -fatYour body burns the sugar for energy. That's the good news. If you have a normal metabolism and you do not eat too much sugar, your metabolism to burn the sugar in your energy system. The problem is when you start eating too much sugar in popular forms like syrup , corn syrup , high fructose corn. Fructose accumulates in the blood and normal system of your body to burn fructose and tell your brain to stop eating foods messaging is shorted . Consequently, the quantities of food and blood sugar continue construction remains . Given its constitution laden calories , sugar increases the amount of energy it consumes . Part of this energy is burned and the other through a residue , a large part is converted by the body into stored energy . In other words , they have become fat. No wonder there is a huge explosion of obesity in the United States.
Sugar is everywhereAlthough sugarcane tends to be relatively expensive syrup , corn , high fructose is abundant because high yields of U.S. corn . This has led to a flood of fructose sweeteners low market prices and many products are packed in syrup , syrup , high fructose corn. Because of this abundance, collective consumption of calories Americans to keep in the air.