Side Effects of a Sweet Tooth

How Sugar Addict Reacts to Denial or Access of Sugar

1. When sugar addicts are denied access to sugary items or they are not capable of consuming them, they exhibit symptoms of low mood, irritability, frustration, and panic.

2. Cravings for sugar are accompanied by fine tremors, headaches and a pre-occupation with thoughts.

3. When access to the sugar is permitted, sugar addicts experience an instant rush and feel very satisfied very quickly.

4. A person making great efforts to eliminate sugar from their diet will typically experience symptoms like severe headaches, changes in bowel habit, low mood, and anxiety.

Sugar must be a fantastic thing when on your tongue, but its goodness ends the moment it enters your digestive system. Sugar is often referred to as ‘empty calories’ primarily because of its inability to give anything substantial to your body. All that sugar can create is bewilderment and chaos.

Here how sugar creates havoc once inside your body:

Strips your Body of Vitamins and Minerals
Sugar is extremely difficult for the body to digest. It must pass through a number of complex steps before your body can digest it and use it for production of energy.

Hence, when you consume sugar, your body needs to divert all its vitamins and minerals for the purpose of breaking down the complex molecules of sugar and digest them. This process strips your body of all its vital nutrients like its vitamins and minerals.

Effect of Sugar on Teeth and Bones
Uncontrolled consumption of sugar leads to weaker bones and teeth. Sugar causes your body to be overly acidic. The body tries to regain its balance between the acid and alkaline factors and, in this attempt, leeches away all the calcium from the bones and teeth. Loss of calcium can give rise to osteoporosis, arthritis, and weaker teeth.

Sugar can Cause Obesity
When you consume sugar on a daily basis, all the excess sugar is first stored in your liver, in the form of glycogen. But when the liver too is full to the brim, it starts distributing the undigested sugar in the form of ugly fat on your hips, belly, breasts, waist, and thighs.

Sugar Attacks all Vital Organs
The other organs’ excess glycogen is sent to are your heart and kidneys, which are forced to handle the burden of the remaining, unburnt sugar. The liver doles out all the remaining glycogen to these organs, where it gradually gets converted into fat.

Accumulation of fats in these organs makes them sluggish, giving rise to ailments such as high blood pressure, diabetes, weak immune system, and small brain paralysis.

Short Term Effect of Sugar on Brain
An acid by the name of glutamatic acid is responsible for regulating the ‘stop and go’ response taking place in the brain. This glutamatic acid is formed with the aid of vitamin B present in many vegetables, in collaboration with bacteria – E coli, which symbiotically resides in the human intestines.

Refined sugar launches an all-out assault on these good bacteria, and kills them, thus hampering proper functioning of the brain.

Long Term Effect of Sugar on Brain
The undigested bad carbohydrates present in sugar give rise to a phenomenon called “toxic metabolite”, which causes pyruvic acid to accumulate in the brain and nervous system. Meanwhile, sugar gets converted into alien carbon atoms that find their way into the blood stream and settle in your RBCs.

This contamination of RBCs tends to suffocate them, causing their early death and thus giving rise to degenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s.

Do you still think it’s fun to consume sugary foods? We hope not anymore!