You want to take a stab at how much sugar the average American consumes today?
765 grams every five days.
Or rather, the same amount that ye old American was drinking, butin seven hoursinstead of five days.
We have taken something that used to be a luxury and made it into an entire food group.
We’ve weaved it intoallour food groups.
Let’s talk about younoton sugar.
You could glow like Beyonce
Glycation.
The effects of sugar molecules on your body’s cells.
Guess which cells are most prone to this effect?
The same ones that make you look younger, plumper, and glowy, of course!
Okay, okay, we get it.
Their circles will be reduced, perkier," says Dr. Lancer.
That just might be enough motivation for us.
According to Beyonce’s derm, sugar has the ability to weaken the immune system.
A weak immune system can’t fight off bacteria, and bacteria clogs pores.
Clogged pored cause pimples.
In addition, consuming sugar can increase your testosterone levels.
Ruddy and pimply or… Beyonce?
We’re with her.
She was trying to become fertile.
In hearing promising results from her colleague (who also had endometriosis), she followed the advice ofDr.
Zoe Harcombeand cut out the sugar.
Within three months of overhauling her diet, her period was late.
But this time, it had nothing to do with her endometriosis.
Again, the research here may be a little light.
But there are some potential sugar to fertility connections.
Namely, sugar’s effectson hormones.
This gene is aptly named the Sex Hormone Binding Globulin, or SHBG for short.
You want your SHBG to bejustright.
All this sounds pretty bad for women.
But remember when we mentioned the lowered testosterone that leads to acne?
Guess what elselowered testosterone means?
Flabby muscles, flabbier bellies, and decreased sex drive in men.
Talk about a mood killer.
Forget the chocolate molten cake.
We’ll take the check!
And the craziest part is Larsson claims that this drastic change in attitude only took two days.
Two days for her taste buds to change.
Two days for her to ask for vegetables instead of cookies.
Two days for her to become, as Larrson puts it, “a harmonious little girl.”
An article inParentingmagazineagrees that numerous studies cannot find sugar as the cause of hyperactivity.
However, the problem may not be in the sugar high, but the sugar crash.
Seems like the perfect cocktail for a meltdown to us.
You might just lose that weight!
We couldn’t leave this one out.
It’s often the most common and obvious reason to eliminate the white stuff from your life.
Celebrities are having success with it fromJohn GoodmantoAdele.
Well, that’s just part of the story.
One of them is to communicate with our fat cells.
When insulin levels are sky-high, it will tell our cells to store fat and avoid burning more.
From here, the body can’t get into the stored fat.
Which it interprets to mean, “I’m hungry!”
Another bowl of granola?
Don’t mind if I do.
And what about that granola?
Do you think it’s going to keep you full and satisfied until lunch?
A 2013 studyserved 20 healthy test subjects either a glucose-sweetened drink or a fructose-sweetened drink.
The glucose drinkers felt more full and satiated, while the fructose drinkers were left unsatisfied and somewhat hungry.
Interpretation: The more processed sugar you eat, the more processed sugar you want.
Cut down the sugar, and you might just see your waistline go down too.
Couldn’t hurt to try, right?
You could scrub the cobwebs
Upon immediateconsumption, fructose is a reward for the brain.
It gets a temporary high and feels pretty good about itself.
As neuroscientist Jordan Gaines Lewis puts it, sugar “hijacks the brain’s reward pathway.”
Gang’s all here!
Take the edge off
Sugar and anxiety.
They seem to go hand in hand, don’t they?
You had a fight with your boyfriend?
You eat a pint of ice cream.
Nervous the night before a presentation?
You eat a pint of ice cream with chocolate chips.
Asking for a raise tomorrow?
You eat a pint of ice cream with chocolate chips and slather it with peanut butter.
Blurry vision, fuzzy head, fatigue, shaking these are all symptoms of a typical panic attack.
The worsening symptoms cause more worry and fear, creating a vicious cycle.
Well there’ssome rat researchthat seems to say a little bit more about the general effects of sugar on anxiety.
All this talk of anxiety is making us a little nervous.
Maybe a nice cup of tea to calm our nerves?
Hold the sugar, of course.
A world with no sugar?
We need sugar in our diet.
It gives us energy.
The problem is our approach to eating it.
TakeMaddy Moon, for example.
But in neither case did she feel healthy.
She now will allow herself wine, beer, fruit, and even cake when she feels like it.
Just like anything else, too much of anything is a bad thing (i.e.
C’mon, America!).
But just enough can lead to a very sweet life.
