@drjamilorakzai: Excessive refined sugar is harmful to your health for several reasons, primarily because it disrupts your body's normal processes, especially how it manages blood sugar levels. Here's how it affects you and your blood: 1. **Blood Sugar Spikes and Crashes**: - **Rapid Increase in Blood Sugar**: Refined sugar is quickly absorbed into the bloodstream, causing a sudden spike in blood glucose levels. This forces the pancreas to produce large amounts of insulin, the hormone responsible for moving sugar from the blood into cells. - **Insulin Overload**: Frequent sugar spikes can strain the pancreas over time, making it harder to regulate blood sugar, leading to conditions like insulin resistance. - **Energy Crash**: After a spike, blood sugar levels often drop quickly, leading to a "crash" that can cause feelings of fatigue, irritability, and hunger soon after consuming sugar. ### 2. **Increased Risk of Type 2 Diabetes**: - Over time, high sugar consumption can contribute to **insulin resistance**, a condition where your body's cells become less responsive to insulin, forcing the pancreas to produce even more insulin. If left unchecked, this can lead to type 2 diabetes, a chronic condition in which the body can’t regulate blood sugar effectively. 3. **Inflammation and Heart Health**: - **Inflammatory Response**: Excess sugar in the bloodstream can trigger chronic inflammation, which contributes to many diseases, including heart disease, cancer, and arthritis. - **Higher Cholesterol and Triglycerides**: Consuming too much sugar can increase the amount of triglycerides (a type of fat) in the blood. High triglycerides are linked to an increased risk of heart disease. 4. **Weight Gain**: - **Empty Calories**: Refined sugar provides calories without any essential nutrients, often leading to weight gain. It increases fat storage, especially around the abdomen, and this visceral fat is linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases. - **Hormonal Effects on Appetite**: Excessive sugar can interfere with hormones that regulate hunger and satiety, leading to overeating. 5. **Chronic Conditions**: - **Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD)**: Excess sugar, particularly from fructose (found in high-fructose corn syrup), can overwhelm the liver and contribute to fat accumulation, leading to fatty liver disease. - **Metabolic Syndrome**: A combination of conditions including high blood pressure, elevated blood sugar, excess body fat around the waist, and abnormal cholesterol levels, often triggered by excess sugar intake, can increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. How It Affects Your Blood: - **Glycation**: Excess sugar in the blood can bind to proteins in a process called glycation, which damages proteins and can lead to complications like aging of blood vessels and damage to tissues. - **Blood Vessel Damage**: High levels of sugar can damage the endothelial cells lining your blood vessels, contributing to atherosclerosis (hardening of arteries) and poor circulation. To maintain health, it's essential to limit refined sugar intake and opt for natural sources of sugar, such as fruits, which also provide fiber, vitamins, and minerals. #health #healthy #food #Foodie #healthybhicoolbhi #Lifestyle #capcut #sugarcrash #diabetes

Dr. Jamil Orakzai

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Friday 27 September 2024 15:55:29 GMT