China became the first sugar-making country, the first mention of it appeared several millennia before the onset of our era. Also, sugar production was a common handicraft in ancient India. Cultivation of sugar culture was also carried out by Arab states. In Western Europe, such a rapid spread was due to the Crusades, it was thanks to him that most Europeans learned about this product. In Russia, its mass production began only in 1719, after the founding of sugar enterprises in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Sugar is white and brown, according to the advertising of the producers of the second, cane molasses, from which it is made, is rich in valuable minerals and "gives us strength, health of strength and energy." The undoubted advantage of brown sugar over white is its naturalness. In nature, there is nothing that is ideal, pure, refined, it is more the property of mankind. In brown sugar, there are much more trace elements inherent in sugar beet or sugar cane, which is why many doctors recommend it to their patients. The only thing that brown sugar is worse than the refined one, is in a price that exceeds the price of a competitor by three to four times. Otherwise, the positive and negative sides of the two types of sugar coincide.
The main disadvantages of white and brown sugars are those factors that:
Among sweet tooth, people with caries are more likely to be found. Because it is due to sugar that the reproduction of bacteria causing this disease of the oral cavity occurs at a doubled rate.
Increased calorie content. 374 kilocalories per hundred gram is a lot for a product that is not used in its pure form. Most sweets and confectionery products in their composition contain not only sugar, but also flour, starch, the calorie content of which is not much lower. Due to the abuse of favorite treats, more and more people around the world are obese, and this is not only a health problem, but also a psychological problem.
Sucrose is the cause of many diseases, including chronic constipation, intestinal disorders, ulcerous lesions of the stomach, duodenum, colon cancer and even diseases of the veins of the lower extremities, that is, legs.
Sugar badly affects the skin, so the true age is harder to determine, and sometimes even want to "throw a couple of years." Especially this minus of sugar should disturb women.
People who consume a lot of sugar in their diet avoid vitamins A and C, folic acid, phosphorus, calcium, iron and magnesium, the most risk is to "lose" the above elements, but overdo it with children and adolescents.
Vitamin B12, involved in the formation of red blood cells, as well as many trace elements can not be synthesized by the body because of the excess of sucrose.
As well as sugar aggravates stress and is a strong immunodepressant, worsens eyesight, promotes the development of alcoholism, disrupts the absorption of calcium and magnesium, provokes heartburn, speeds up the development of arthritis, arteriosclerosis, bronchial asthma, hemorrhoids, varicose veins, parodentosis, fungus development, copper deficiency in the body , provokes the formation of stones in the kidney and gall bladder, allergies, migraines, drowsiness, breast, ovarian, intestinal, prostate, rectal, increases cholesterol and breaks ejection of proteins, mineral metabolism and production of growth hormones and removes chromium from the body, which leads to the de-regulation of self-sugar in the blood, reduces the resistance to bacterial infections, the level of enzymes and the level of high-density lipoproteins, increases the concentration of the neurotransmitter serotonin.
Do the sugars have positive sides? Yes, there are, for example:
The coloring matter of beet has anti-tumor properties.
Improving the taste of products.
Activation of blood circulation in the human brain.
Prevention of thrombosis.
Sugar - an excellent tool for debugging the work of the spleen and liver.
Refusing sugar or not is a private matter for every person, but it should be noted that this product is not yet fully understood, and many experts doubt both the positive aspects of the main sweetener of life, and in its negative aspects. Now you can make a conclusion about whether it is useful to use sugar in the diet.