What Will Happen to Your Body If You Overconsume Sugar
In modern diet culture, sugar is considered quite harmful. Gen Z should be aware that almost every product they find on the grocery store shelf contains added sugar, even if it is spicy and advertised as healthy.
It means that most people consume far more sugar than they even realize, so removing it from our diet can have surprisingly drastic effects.
Sugar withdrawal can generate physical and mental symptoms. Physical symptoms include exhaustion, headaches and even gastrointestinal distress.
This disagreeable experience can cause feelings of frustration and irritability, just like in the first days of giving up smoking. Some may also experience brain fog, sadness or depression.
The good news is that the critical period after cutting down on sugar usually lasts a week. You should then start to feel your energy levels return to normal.
Sugar is at the root of bad breath. It is caused by bacteria in the mouth. Reducing your sugar intake can significantly improve your breath.
Refined sugars have been proven to disrupt two of the most important phases in the sleep cycle: REM (rapid eye movement) and SWS (slow wave sleep). These are the most restorative phases and are essential to feeling recharged in the morning. After a few weeks, the benefits of a refined sugar-free diet should begin to show in your sleep.
Sugar overloads and damages the liver. The effect of consuming too much sugar or fructose can be compared to the effect of consuming too much alcohol. All the fructose you take in is transferred to the only organ that has the function of processing it - the liver. This seriously strains and even overloads the liver causing potential damage to the organ.
Excess sugar increases uric acid levels in the body. High uric acid levels are a risk factor for heart and kidney disease.
Consuming too much sugar causes metabolic dysfunction manifested by the symptoms of weight gain, obesity, low HDL and high LDL, high blood sugar, high triglycerides and high blood pressure.
Cutting down on food that contain added sugars lresults in weight loss. They are often high in calories but not particularly filling. This means you won't feel full and will have to consume more to be satisfied. Slowly reducing your sugar intake helps reduce body fat storage.
