The danger of sugar to our health

Too much consume sugar not only lead to obesity, but also can give other bad effects to health. You certain often hear that the short-term effect of too much consuming sugar is overweight whereas the long-term effect is diabetes.

You should know that too much consume sugar can lead to excess calories and lead to aging at the cellular level and inflammation. Both effects lead to increase the risk of chronic disease in humans.

Besides excess sugar will also reduce the neural growth factors like BDNF (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor). The components produced in the brain functions to accelerate the ability to think, learn, and human long-term memory. So if the growth of the BDNF gives effect, someone will be slower thinking and forgetful.

Based on other research also got that excess triggers facial aging than of actual age, and face will be more prone pimpled. In addition to an effect on the face, someone who is excess sugar also influences the blood pressure. When someone consumes too much sugar then the body will release more insulin to reduce the glucose from the bloodstream.

If your diet too much contains sugar, then the insulin level increase will also repeatedly trigger the kidneys retains sodium. In this condition, the body will pump more sodium through the food you consume. This will lead to an imbalance in the contents of sodium and the blood pressure will increase.

From the explanation above, the excess sugar causes bad effects on health, but you do not need to avoid it utterly. The important thing is consume it in a reasonable amount and identify what foods that contain a lot of sugar and begin to limit it.

Summary: 

• The danger of sugar in short-term is overweight,
• The excess sugar in long-term also triggers the diabetes, slower thinking and forgetful.

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Some of Prohibition Foods for The Diabetes Sufferers

Foods contain sugars are less friendly for the body to be a lot of talking currently. Besides it causes obesity, sugar is known can damage the body's organs until make addiction, and became one of the causes of Diabetes. And you should know that the sugar content that quite high actually is in some foods that we do not expect before.

Many opinions, the sugar content is only found in sugar which is usually used for food. But, actually the form of sugar is very diverse, starting from the natural in grain or fruit, until the extra sugar contained in the syrup or other bottled beverages. And the other foods contain sugar are:

Susu

Drinking milk aims to get the calcium and keeping the body fitness. But you should avoiding the excessive drinking milk because actually milk contains sugar is enough 12 grams per serving. And in order to keeping your calcium content completed changes with broccoli, spinach or other green leafy vegetables.

Yogurt

Yogurt is a healthy food that is recommended because it contains a lot of protein and calcium. But yogurt with a variety of flavors and toppings that currently many in the market, usually it contains sugar up to 20 grams.

Red apple

The red apple fruit is known containing a sugar called fructose until 20 grams. Nevertheless, the fruit is a good source of fiber and vitamins, so you can still consume it. But for the Diabetes sufferers should not be excessive.

Energy bars

It is one of the healthy snacks because a snack bar is low fat and high protein. But you should know that actually the snack bars contain 25 grams of sugar per stem.

Cassava

Although the cassava’s taste is not so sweet but in fact it also contains sugar which is quite high. So if you have a history of Diabetes disease, you should not to consume food from the ingredient of cassava.
Sauces and dressings salad.

The last prohibition food for Diabetes sufferers is salad dressing. This is caused this food contains sugar until 10 grams. Likewise with the sauce that contains sugar up to 9 grams per ounce.

Summary:

• Diabetes sufferers should avoid the prohibition food containing sugar which is high enough,
• The prohibition foods for the Diabetes sufferers are in some drinks, fruit and other foods that are unexpected sometimes.

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Activities that Increase the Risk of Diabetes Disease

Diabetes is a chronic health problem that can threaten the person's quality of life. But you do not have to worry, because Diabetes is a disease that can be managed by applying the healthy habits in the life. And certainly you must avoid some activities that can trigger the blood sugar rises, so it causes complication.

The physical activities can trigger the recurrence of Diabetes are as the following:

• Too much sitting, including sitting in front of the TV can increase the risk of Diabetes. This is evidenced based on the research showed that sitting 2 hours in front of the TV can increase the risk of diabetes until 20%, that percentage would be more higher if the activity watching TV that you do with consuming the unhealthy foods. The habit of sitting after eating is also known can increase the blood sugar up to 34% more higher than if you take a walk after eating.
• Avoiding eating is often done by many Diabetes sufferers, with the reason they are afraid of their blood sugar rise. But by avoiding breakfast and lunch will trigger the unstable blood sugar. This triggers you to consume the unhealthy foods or snacks, so the blood sugar will be more difficult to control.
• Reducing sleep is one of the activities that is often done by the Diabetes patients, with the aim the blood sugar goes down. But you should know, the patients who are lack of sleep will trigger the rise of blood sugar, because they will tend to consume unhealthy food or because they experience dehydration. Reducing sleep at night will also trigger drowsiness in the day, so disturbing the physical activity you should do.
• Stopping the Diabetes medicine consumption is also often done by the Diabetes patients, with the reason the blood sugar has been normal and began to switch to the herbal remedies. Herbal remedies can indeed help the symptoms of Diabetes that you experienced, but it can not replace the function of Diabetes medicine completely.
• Do not do the blood sugar inspections regularly or stopping the blood sugar examinations are often done by Diabetes patients because feel that their blood sugar have been normal. But for the inspection should be done routinely in order to known how many medicines should be consumed, diet, exercise, the physical activity should be done.

Summary:

• Many sitting in front of the tv or when working can increase the risk of recurrence of Diabetes,
• Although when the inspection routinely your blood sugar have been normal, but the Diabetes medicines should be consumed continue,

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Lack of Sleeping becomes Cause of Diabetes

For those of you who sleep less each day will face the bigger consequences, other than the tiredness and hard to concentrate. Because based on the research, the sleep less habit in the long-term will increase the risk and became the cause of diabetes and obesity. In that research, the scientists found that apparently your sleep pattern influence on the blood sugar-content, the hormone that controls appetite, even the brain perception with foods containing high calories.

A small research published in The Annals of Internal Medicine journal was also conclude that lack of sleep also reduces the ability of fat cells to respond the insulin, the hormone that regulates the metabolism which triggers the occurrence of Diabetes.

Testing which is done by the method, the participants were asked to sleep 8 nights in a sleeping laboratory. During the first 4 nights they slept with the normal hours, and 4 hours of sleep the next nights they were bounded for 4.5 hours of sleep. And in fact, after 4 nights lacking of sleep, the insulin sensitivity of the respondents fell until 16%. For next the insulin ensitivity of fat cells down to 30% at the level which usually experienced by people suffer obesity or diabetes.

If the insulin resistance is often happen, then the excess of blood sugar and cholesterol will accumulate in the blood stream and will trigger the diabetes and heart disease. Lack of sleeping will give the body's stress response so there are the release of the cortisol hormone stress and neropinehrin, the hormone related to the insulin resistance in the body.

Summary: 

• Lack of sleeping become one of the causes of diabetes, 
• Those conditions influence the hormone’s metabolism system in the body, 
• Lack of sleeping also causes the body's stress response that influences the hormone. 

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