What's the harm of eating too much sugar

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The existence of sweet food is always a temptation for us. The World Health Organization has investigated the causes of death in 23 countries and concluded that sugar addiction is more harmful than smoking. Therefore, it is particularly important to understand the adverse effects of too much sugar on health. Then, what diseases will be caused by too much sugar?

What's the harm of eating too much sugar

Too much sugar will lead to the occurrence of dental caries: too much sugar provides a good reproduction condition for oral bacteria, gradually dissolves the enamel on the surface of teeth, and sugar belongs to acidic food, which has a corrosive effect on teeth, so it is easy to form dental caries.

Too much sugar will lead to a lack of vitamins or nutritional diseases: after eating a lot of sugar, blood sugar will rise, which can produce a sense of satiety, loss of appetite, affect digestion and absorption, and cause a lack of vitamins. Over time, anorexia, vomiting, dyspepsia, irritability and other neurological symptoms will appear. In severe cases, there will be pale complexion, muscle relaxation, decreased resistance and other malnutrition, reducing the activity of nerve and muscle. In addition, sugar intake in the body will produce many metabolic intermediates, such as pyruvate and lactic acid, alkaline calcium, magnesium, sodium and so on will participate in the neutralization reaction, in order to maintain the body's acid-base balance. Due to the large consumption of calcium, it will cause calcium deficiency in the body, easily lead to osteoporosis, fracture and scoliosis.

Eating too much sugar will affect vision: eating too much sugar will lead to increased blood sugar, causing damage to the eyes from two aspects: sugar is an acid producing food, which can neutralize calcium, chromium and other basic elements in the body. Calcium and chromium can maintain the elasticity of the eyeball. When the nutrition is balanced, the calcium and chromium elements in the body are also in a state of balance, maintaining the normal intraocular pressure. When calcium and chromium are insufficient, the elasticity of the eyeball wall is reduced, and the normal intraocular pressure cannot be maintained. Long time tense use of lens can lengthen the axis of the eye, causing myopia. In addition, hyperglycemia will accelerate the degeneration of lens, cause the change of lens and aqueous humor osmotic pressure, increase the diopter, and lead to myopia.

matters needing attention

1. If you want to drink a cup of brown sugar water or honey water every day, you'd better stay away from other sweets and sweet drinks. 2. Drink coffee with or without sugar, and drink milk and soybean milk without sugar. 3. If a product is called "low sugar", it is necessary to check whether the sugar content on its nutrition label meets the national low sugar standard (whether the sugar content in 100ml liquid or solid is less than 5g).