On 20th January I’ve attended a short workshop on “The Danger of Sugar” by Consumer Association Penang (CAP). The followings are some facts that you might find useful and interesting, especially on the USELESS SUGAR.
There are 3 types of sugar; processed sugar, natural sugar and blood sugar.
Processed sugar, specifically the white sugar produced by the industries, IS the what we call- USELESS SUGAR. The normal misconception is that this type of sugar is essential for our body to generate energy. This is totally wrong! White sugar has ZERO nutrition, I repeat, ZERO! It does nothing but only adds sweetness, making our food tasting delicious.
Getting a bit confused and flabbergasted? Here’s the thing. Insulin in our body that converts sugar in blood into energy, cannot process, or in other words, cannot convert the white sugar into energy as it contains no nutrient. But white sugar is still sugar! Thus, these useless sugars are still required to be disposed off from our blood. Lack of insulin and insulin immunization will cause excess of sugar to be present in our blood and thus causes diabetes.
The REAL sugar that is needed for energy is the natural sugar. Example of food that contains this type of sugar is rice, bread, vegetables (yes veggies), fruits etc. As the word itself implies, natural sugar usually comes from natural sources.
Blood sugar is simply the sugar in our blood. A normal person should have 3, 4 or 5 sugar level indicator in his blood.
Male only needs 60ml (12 teaspoons of sugar) per day, women needs only 50ml (10 teaspoons of sugar).
Processed sugar (white sugar) is just another creation by men. Long long time ago, people only consumes natural sugar. Processed sugar is actually not needed at all!
Artificial sugar and saccharine is dangerous to our health. DO NOT CONSUME AT ALL COST! It can cause cancer in a long term.
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