Everything you need to know about Sugar

SUGAR

If I had to point one culprit to our country’s expanding waistlines and deteriorating health, it would be sugar.

You probably have a lot of questions about sugar

•Is sugar THAT bad for your health? 

•Fruits have sugar, are eating fruits bad? 

•Are certain types of sugar better or worse for you? 

•Can one really get addicted to sugar? 

Nutrition is the BIGGEST change that needs to happen if you are trying to lose weight and get healthy.The problem isn’t just knowing that we need to eat less sugar but that we need to build systems to help retrain ourselves to not be hooked on the stuff. Too many people go about quitting sugar the wrong way, and end up falling off the wagon hard. 

WHAT HAPPENS IN OUR BODY WHEN WE EAT SUGAR

When we consume sugar, our body has two options on how to deal with it:
•Burn it for energy
•Convert into fat and store it in our fat cells 

Problem is, there’s a LOT more room for fat storage, and a lot less room to burn the sugar as energy.
we have this sugar in our body and blood stream. What happens next? When your pancreas detects a rush of sugar, it releases a hormone called insulin to deal with all of that excess sugar.

Insulin helps regulate that level of sugar in our blood; the more sugar in the blood stream, the more insulin is released.  Insulin helps store all of this glucose in the liver and muscles as glycogenand in fat cells (aka adipocytes stored as triglycerides).
 Along with making you fat, sugar consumption has been implicated in a litany of crimes, including contributing to an increased chance of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, dementia, macular degeneration, renal failure, chronic kidney disease, and high blood pressure.