_Sugar describes a class of molecules called carbohydrates. Carbohydrates is a traditional category for sugars and molecules that our body breaks down to make sugars. Their structure can confirm the simple or complex of carbohydrates. There are 5 simple sugars such as: starch, maltose, glucose, fructose and galactose.
+Complex carbohydrates with three to ten linked sugars are oligosaccharides.
+Complex carbohydrates with more than ten linked sugars are polysaccharides.
Who uses carbohydrates?
_In our daily foods such as eggs, fishes, meats, milk, vegetables, and soda, they contain a large amount of carbohydrates which raise the sugar level in your blood. As high as the sugar raises in your body, it releases a hormone called insulin which is need to move sugar from the blood into the cells and produces energy. Candies are contained a large number of sugars but sugars also can be found in tomato sauce, favored waters or yogurts.
Why is it important?
_Insulin is necessary for glucose to reach and keep its level balance in the body (not too high or too low). The pancreas made insulin which is a hormone that allows your body to use sugar from carbohydrates in food for producing energy or to store sugar for future use. As blood sugar levels rise, the pancreas secretes more insulin. If your body does not produce enough insulin or your cells are resistant to the effects of insulin, it may cause the increase of high blood pressure which harms the workload of your heart and blood vessels (work harder and less efficiently).
How sugar effects our brain?
_According to Vera Novak who is a MD, PhD, an HMS associate professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, she said:" The brain is dependent on sugar as its main fuel. It cannot be without it". That's true. In her laboratory, she tries to find the way to prevent the effects of sugar to the brain that may causes diabetes. In our brain, there are many dopamine ;which is an important chemical and neurotransmitter ;receptor in the forebrain. Brain can be damaged by using drug, alcohol or heroin in which send dopamine into over drive and become an addict. Moreover, sugar is rare among dopamine-inducing foods.
This is a video about "How sugar effects the brain" by Nicole Avena. Let's see and understand more :
http://kidshealth.org/en/kids/carb.html
https://www.endocrineweb.com/conditions/type-1-diabetes/what-insulin
http://neuro.hms.harvard.edu/harvard-mahoney-neuroscience-institute/brain-newsletter/and-brain-series/sugar-and-brain
In a way, sugar is like a drug. Many people are addicted to sugar. In fact, type two diabetes have increased significantly in the past three decades. What kind of tests have been done to prevent the effects of sugar on the brain?
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ReplyDeleteOlivia, this is a very complicated question...Here is a link to some research performed by Harvard University. Hope it helps answer your question more thoroughly!!
In my research I discovered that oxygen is absolutely necessary to human life as sugar is to gain energy in order to preform necessary tasks. I also learned that too much oxygen will kill a human, just as too much sugar will. It is very important, as people, to use applied research and find out what these limits are and possibly put some limits on the amount of sugar used in commercial products.
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