The effect of sugar on mental and physical health

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Sugar is a deadly poison that some are addicted to and others imagine their happiness in it, its color is white but does not provoke peace at all, but affects physical and psychological health and human activity, and with this article we will talk in detail about how it affects human life in general

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  • Excessive sugar consumption negatively affects both physical and mental health, contributing to issues like depression, anxiety, and decreased concentration.
  • High sugar intake causes a temporary burst of energy followed by fatigue, mood swings, and even long-term mental health problems such as generalized anxiety disorder and depression.
  • Sugar significantly increases the risk of chronic diseases like diabetes, heart problems, and high blood pressure due to its impact on insulin resistance and overall metabolism.
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  • Consuming too much sugar leads to weight gain, especially around the abdomen, by interfering with appetite-regulating hormones like leptin.
  • Dental health suffers greatly due to sugar, as it promotes acid-producing bacteria that erode tooth enamel and cause cavities.
  • Skin issues such as acne, premature wrinkles, and dermatitis are often linked to high sugar diets because sugar raises hormone levels and oil production in the skin.
  • Adopting a diet low in processed sugars and rich in fiber, whole foods, and natural produce is essential to preventing sugar-related diseases and maintaining overall health.

Diabetes and mental health

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Some imagine that eating sugars improves mood, especially large amounts of them, but unfortunately sweets and sugar affect the general mood badly and the mental health of humans negatively.

One of the consequences of eating a large amount of sweets is a decrease in blood glucose after a while and a person's feeling sad after feeling happy and excited at first after eating sweets.

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With time, things develop to reach depression that disrupts a person from performing his tasks properly.

Sugar also affects the pituitary gland negatively, pushing it to secrete more cortisol, and then the human feeling of fatigue increases and the rate of anxiety increases, and thus affects mental health.

In fact, eating sweets and sugars increases the problems of people with generalized anxiety disorder in particular, because it negatively affects their feelings of excessive anxiety.

Generalized anxiety disorder is very prevalent and its owners suffer from a feeling of excessive anxiety, which sometimes increases the speed of the heartbeat, causes panic attacks in advanced cases, affects irritable bowel syndrome and reflects on physical health as well.

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Generalized anxiety disorder differs from normal anxiety, that normal anxiety pushes its owner to success and achievement, while generalized anxiety disorder pushes its owner to stress aimlessly, feel constant fear and live in imaginary assumptions by always expecting the worst.

Sugars never help his patients and they don't help depressed patients either, and their negative impact on mental health

Sugar, concentration and activity

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As soon as you eat sugar, a person feels hyperactive for a short time, while he becomes listless and less active after a while.

According to Healthline, sugars also affect cognitive and concentration functions and lead to memory impairment.

Studies have already proven that sugar does not affect activity alone, but actually affects concentration and memory, according to the site "Step Health", sugar has a benefit in increasing concentration if it is a small amount of 25 grams and from a natural source such as bananas, but if this percentage increases, it is reversed and has an adverse effect on human concentration, activity and memory.The American Heart Association recommends not eating more than the aforementioned amount of sugar for women specifically, while men have 36 grams of sugar per day.

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Effects of sugar on physical health

Diabetes

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Soft and sugary drinks are one of the most dangerous things that can cause diabetes, as they negatively affect the hormone insulin.

According to the Mayo Clinic website, there are worrying symptoms that make you suspect that you have diabetes, which are

Feeling very thirsty

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Frequent urination.

Feeling more tired than usual.

Blurry vision.

Lose weight suddenly and unintentionally.

Sores are slow to heal.

Tingling and numbness in the hands and feet.

Weakened, red, swollen gums.

The American Diabetes Association recommends that most adults begin diabetes screening from the age of thirty-five. Diabetes is a chronic disease, so you should consult a doctor if you notice any of the above symptoms.

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Chronic diabetes is of two types, including treatable diabetes that is in its infancy, as well as gestational diabetes.

Diabetes problems begin to occur when blood sugar is higher than normal.

Genetic factors and other things that cause diabetes:

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Heredity plays an important role in the development of this disease, as the history of the family and if there are a number of its members carrying the disease is one of the factors that should make you more careful about your health and avoid this disease.

Surprisingly, ethnic origins also play a role in the disease, with blacks, Hispanics, Amerindians and Asian Americans more likely to develop it.

The crisis of this disease is that it affects the kidneys, eyes, skin and nerves, so a person develops diabetic neuropathy, diabetic nephropathy, eye damage caused by diabetes, foot damage as well, hearing impairment, and Alzheimer's disease, but you can avoid all this by following a health system that avoids these problems if you have this disease.

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To prevent diabetes, you have to dispense as much as possible with sugar, and in this article we will discuss a health system that avoids this disease and other diseases caused by diabetes

Heart disease and pressure

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One of the effects of sugars on physical health is heart disease, where the rate of risk of heart disease increases among those who are addicted to sugars and eat them greedily.Sugar becomes a danger to the heart because it leads to high blood pressure and releases more fat into the bloodstream, both of which lead to heart problems, as a person has a heart attack for these reasons.

Sugar raises insulin levels, which causes high blood pressure, and then excessive intake of sugars is exposed to hypertension

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Cholesterol diseases

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Sugars raise the level of bad cholesterol and lower the good type, as well as raise the percentage of triglycerides; so the effect of sugars is very dangerous to the physical health of humans.

Sugar also causes liver damage and inflammation, as the liver converts fructose sugar into fat, and then some parts of these fats accumulate in the liver with excessive intake of sugars, and the person then suffers from a disease called non-alcoholic fatty liver

Weight gain

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Abdominal height in particular is caused by eating too many sugars. Sugar affects weight gain as it affects the hormone leptin responsible for reducing appetite, which makes a person eat more than he needs food, and from here the disaster begins and the human weight increases without feeling the secret of what happens to him, but the password is always... drunkenness

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Joint diseases

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Excessive sugar intake can worsen joint pain and may also increase the risk of rheumatoid arthralgia.

The effect of sugar on teeth

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Something known is the effect of sugar on dental health, there are harmful bacteria that produce acid in the mouth when eating sugars, and these acids work to remove minerals from tooth enamel, which is the outer layer of the teeth, and then important minerals are removed from the teeth.

Sugars cause a cavity in the teeth, a hole that occurs in the teeth after decay, and also as a result of harmful bacteria resulting from the digestion of sugar in food.and leave the cavities of the teeth without resorting to the owner to treat a real problem, these cavities spread in deeper layers of the teeth.and always soft drinks cause disaster even to the teeth, and are associated with a large percentage of dental problems because they contain a high percentage of sugars

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The effect of sugar on the skin

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Continuous sugar intake causes skin problems, including acne, and acne is the most common problem facing sugar addicts.

Sugar causes high levels of the hormone androgen in the body and increased pore production of oils, as well as sugar affects the incidence of dermatitis, affects the clarity of the skin, and the appearance of wrinkles faster as well as fine lines in the skin.

How to maintain a healthy diet away from sugar

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When a person follows a healthy system that distances himself from the aforementioned diabetes crises, from skin crises, which are the least treatable problems, to chronic diabetes, from exercising to staying away from food that contains processed sugar.

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Many do not know that sugar is used in the industries of many types of foods and sweeteners such as ketchup, mayonnaise and mustard, be careful to eat plant foods that provide the body with vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates as well as fiber.

Foods rich in fiber help the body lose weight and avoid diabetes, such as: peppers of colors, tomatoes, fruits, leafy greens, broccoli, legumes such as lentils, beans, peas, quinoa grains and oats.

Some people rely on processed juices on the basis that they are healthy, but overlook the amount of sugar added to them, so people should read the ingredient label on each box of food or canned juices to know how much sugar they will eat.

Replacing processed food in general with natural foods and juices without sugar solves the crisis, but there is an opinion that it is necessary to eat fruit instead of squeezing it, because by squeezing it becomes too much sugar, as well as a person must avoid fruits and vegetables that contain a large percentage of sugar, and replace them with green vegetables

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You should also avoid pastries and pasta made from white flour. And remember that life is short and we deserve to live in it in good health so do not neglect your health and you have to stay away from the poison of Qat

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