Sugar, the scientific name is called “carbohydrates”, has been often said that “high carbohydrate” refers to sugar. Sugar is not just about the colorful candies, but also about the many foods in our lives that contain sugar. First, let’s introduce those important members of the sugar family. 1, sugar family Glucose: Glucose is the boss of the sugar family, and it is the most common and basic sugar. When we consume vegetables and cereals, these foods are converted into glucose which is needed by the brain, body cells and tissues, etc. Lactose: Lactose is perhaps the first sugar that everyone ingests after birth. Breast milk, cheese, milk, and yogurt all contain lactose, so if you are lactose intolerant, you should be careful with it. Fructose: In the past, fructose was very rare and existed in free form in the juice of fruits and honey. But now fructose has become ubiquitous, it can make food sweeter, so it is often used as a sweetener, added to all kinds of processed foods. Sucrose: Sucrose is the main product of photosynthesis, consisting of 50% glucose and 50% fructose, it is widely distributed in plants, especially in beets, sugar cane and fruits with extremely high content. 2. 200g of sugar is not much 200g of sugar is a full 40 teaspoons, which sounds like a lot, and you may say, “How can I possibly eat that much sugar every day?” In fact, all the foods we commonly eat now contain a lot of sugar. A few drinks and a bowl of cereal can have more than 20 teaspoons of sugar inside. Although experts recommend that men should ideally not consume more than 9 teaspoons of sugar per day and women should ideally not consume more than 6 teaspoons, the fact is that 40 teaspoons is only the average per capita intake in Australia. . 3, freshly squeezed juice = health? But is freshly squeezed juice necessarily good for your health? In fact, once the fruit is juiced, all of the fiber is destroyed, and the rest is basically sugar water, except for the super high content of sugar, there is little else nutritious. Usually we feel full after eating two apples, because the whole apple contains a lot of fiber, which makes us feel full easily. However, if we choose juice, it takes at least four apples to make a small cup of apple juice, which contains 16 spoons of sugar. 4, sugar can be addictive You may wonder why eating sugar makes it easy to get addicted to it? This starts with the brain, our brain has a rewarding circuit about sugar. When we see sweet food, the brain will secrete dopamine, dopamine like a passionate salesman, keep telling us to eat it, eat it, the piece of food in front of us is particularly delicious, when the vast majority of people will collapse, can not help but try a few bites. The brain loves sugar, and when a lot of sugar is consumed, it in turn secretes a lot of exciting chemicals that make us feel very pleasurable, and that experience is just like drug use and sex, very cool. Unfortunately, the pleasure is short-lived, and our mood is soon low again, creating the urge to eat sweets again, and so on, the more we eat, the more addicted we become. What are the effects of sugar on the human body? Sugar causes obesity When the experiment was conducted for 12 days, Damon’s weight changed significantly, gaining 3.2 Kg. The original abdominal muscles were gone, replaced by a circle of flab, also known as “visceral fat”. When sugar enters the body, it is broken down into glucose and fructose, both of which reach the liver. Once it reaches the liver, glucose becomes ineffective and all of its energy is either consumed immediately for energy or stored for future needs. However, it is different for the fructose part. Fructose is rare in nature and cannot be used directly by humans, but needs to be converted to glucose by the liver before it can enter the blood; if the blood sugar in the blood is already high, it can only be converted to liver glycogen and liver fat for storage. At the same time, the glucose in the blood will stimulate the secretion of insulin, excessive insulin, will let the body into the “savings” mode, fat cells will only accumulate fat, but not release fat, more lead to obesity.