Tuesday, 29 June 2010

effects of sugar

Sugar produces several harmful reactions in your body. It can suppress your immune system, which hinders your ability to fight off infectious diseases, common colds, and other slight germs that you may otherwise combat quickly. Sugar can also cause a rise in adrenaline and anxiety, which may adversely affect your mood and cholesterol, which can lead to heart disease, stroke or high blood pressure. Because fructose overloads your system, it produces waste products such as uric acid. Uric acid blocks an enzyme that makes nitric oxide, which regulates your blood pressure. This can eventually lead to hypertension... more

and there's also the historical social effect