Showing posts with label Sugar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sugar. Show all posts

Sugar and sweeteners.

Habits and social customs are creating damage that seem sometimes irreversible.
 
Sugar, one of the most common "food" high daily consumption goes unnoticed every day, sneaking in most things consumed.

Children are saturated with sugars in amusement and recreation activities like birthday, where the menu consists of fast food, cakes, sweets, fizzy drinks and in the end, the famous surprises.

Sugar has been imposed on our lives in a firm way that is and will be hard to eradicate it, but it is something that is necessary for the below reasons.
It is common to find supposedly healthy messages in the media that call for reducing salt intake, but nothing is said of the precious sugar.

Table sugar is glucose and fructose. These components are metabolized by the body in different ways, the first is absorbed almost entirely by the organs and the rest is stored in the liver. Glucose can be converted to energy for the cells with the help of insulin. In contrast, fructose is completely metabolized in the liver, which leads to wear it on one side and the other to the generation of waste as uric acid which inhibits the regulatory component of the blood pressure, so you can cause high blood pressure.