INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SUGAR

YOU avid sweet foods and began to wonder if the sugar can lead to dependence? According to experts, you do not need to avoid sugar completely, but try to reduce. To help you control your sugar intake, the following facts about sugar.

Sugar trigger dependence?
All people, bright PhD Marcia Pelchat of Monell Chemical Senses Center, tend to like sugar. However, its role in triggering dependency can not be ascertained. The researchers, he explained, was not sure whether people are physically able dependence on sugar.

However, several studies conducted on animals suggest there may be. "In the animals given intermittent access to sugar, a change in brain dopamine, the same as drug addiction," explained Pelchat, as quoted webmd.com site.

In contrast to drug abuse, people are not shaking when stopped eating sugar. But, people with mania sugar remained constant showed one symptom of dependence. "These people will continue to eat despite already know due to the bad."

Sugar worsen cholesterol?
Researchers have found a link between sugar and blood fat levels are not healthy. "There is a relationship between sugar intake and dyslipidemia (elevated triglyceride levels and decrease good cholesterol HDL)," explained Rachel K. Johnson, RD MPH, PhD, a professor of nutrition at the University of Vermont.

Trigger sugar diabetes?
"Eating sugar does not cause diabetes," explained Johnson, However, large studies show the existence of the relationship between beverage intake berpemanis with diabetes.

The main reason, he explained, the possibility is obesity. Berpemanis beverages associated with high body mass index or excess weight and obesity. "Yang has been recognized as a risk factor for diabetes."

Sugar disturb the child's health?
Sugar, light Kavey diet expert, not a problem. Which disturb is overweight. "Sugar is a problem because the increasing rate of obesity in children. And this increase coincided with the addition of a simple sugar intake among children," explained Kavey. Juice, soda, cereal berpemanis, cakes and candies, he explained, is the most common source of sugar in the diet of children.

Is there a best type of sugar?
And the celebrity chef declared the need to replace white sugar with a sugar that is more healthy, such as honey, maple syrup, or molasses (syrup). However, the light of Johnson, there is no evidence to support this misconception. "Everything is a simple sugar. Both gain from the white sugar or other sweetener type, you can still add empty calories to the diet," explained Johnson.

What is the proper dosage?
The experts emphasized that a moderate amount of consumption is the key. For example, the American Heart Association recommends that women limit of about six teaspoons of sugar a day, or about 100 calories. Men should limit up to nine teaspoons per day or 150 calories. (IK/OL-06)