Medicine & TechnologySugar intake has long been connected to the development of serious diseases like diabetes, cancer and even early death. This fact has prompted the government to rethink its approach to encouraging citizens from giving up their sugar intake.
Drinking sugar sweetened drinks with foods that contain high proteins was said to affect the body in other ways aside from descreasing the body's fat-burning ability.
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Due to increasing levels of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes, issues were raised regarding the control of sugar like a cigarette is being controlled.
A recent study uncovered that despite the fact that the measure of sugar present in these sweet beverages has been lessened, consumers will only reduce a small amount of calorie.
The recent study revealed the link between the high level of sugar that can cause breast cancer that made the researchers concentrated on the impact of dietary sugar on various organs in the body.
In a study conducted by scientists from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in mice, it is found that high sugar content diet similar to that of the Western diet can increase risk of both breast cancer and lung metastasis.
When it comes to the sugars that we eat, would you believe that our bodies may respond more positively to some rather than others? It’s a pretty simple assumption that our bodies may respond differently to each sugar we ingest, but it turns out that the physiological responses and mental associations made are far more complex than even researchers in neurobiology could have ever assumed. In a new study published this week in the journal PNAS, researchers with the University of Southern California investigated appetite responses and food choices with regards to ingestion of fructose versus glucose. And what the researchers found was that fructose was far more likely to be dangerous to your diet.