Sugar: The source and the devil of health

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  I think that sugar conscientization started to spread around the world not long ago. My childhood in the late 80s and early 90s was probably in a different dimension. People used to smoke in airplanes, avoid using seatbelts, and consume lots of sugar. My home wasn't different. My mom used to keep a 2 L Cold Coke in our fridge's door and every one of us when thirsty used to open it and take a sip of it. Coke was our water substitute at that time. Together with technological advancement, millennials like me also saw some changes in health habits.


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  My mom stopped buying sugary deserts like Danette and established a new rule at the home of consuming pops only during the weekends and water was finally introduced at home. I appreciate that for sure, despite of during that time I complained a lot. Nowadays I can say that I am sugar-free talking about drinks. Even for my coffee, I avoid sugar. But of course I still eat sometimes a good desert with lots of sugars. We can't forget that high-caloric foods also are transformed into sugar in our bodies, such as bread and pasta. But I try to eat more balanced as an adult and I try to educate my both daughters like that.

  So am I saying that my kids don't eat lollipops, cookies and cakes? No. They still eat these foods, just not every day. They are learning that despite sugar being so good, we can't eat too much. We have an example in our family that went through a different way, now this kid is 12 years old and he has some obesity problems. I saw this problem growing since he was a baby and the parents were giving him cake and coke ( the regular one, not the sugar-free). Like many times in this blog, I mentioned that we can do anything in moderation, and sugar is something that we need to be careful of since it addicts us as many other addictive drugs, like alcohol and nicotine. I can't say that 1 is worse then the other, because all of them can cause severe problems to the health and abusing one of them is so bad in your life.

  I would hypocrite if I said that I don't use any drugs, and sometimes abuse them of course, especially when you go to a birthday party I even drink regular coke. When I abuse too much sugar I feel guilty and also I feel that my body saying that I ate too much. When I eat too much sugar I feel a bit of nausea and I can't eat again for many hours. When you go to a Brazilian birthday party, where you can find many treats made with condensed milk. Yummy in the moment but a bit painful after.


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  Biologically speaking glucose is important for our life, it is the source of our body's energy together with Oxygen. However, during our progression as a society, we started to abuse its presence in foods, in particular processed. And abusing sugar we can be addicted and also bring some overwhelming problems, such as Diabetes and Obesity. But it brings some happiness and we can take it once in a while without any conscience problems.


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  Acho que a conscientização sobre o açúcar começou a se espalhar pelo mundo há pouco tempo. Minha infância no final dos anos 80 e início dos anos 90 foi provavelmente em uma dimensão diferente. As pessoas costumavam fumar em aviões, evitar usar cintos de segurança e consumir muito açúcar. Minha casa não era diferente. Minha mãe costumava manter uma Coca-Cola gelada de 2 L na porta da nossa geladeira e cada um de nós, quando estava com sede, costumava abri-la e tomar um gole. A Coca-Cola era nosso substituto de água naquela época. Junto com o avanço tecnológico, a geração "millennials" como eu também viu algumas mudanças nos hábitos de saúde.


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  Minha mãe parou de comprar sobremesas açucaradas como Danette e estabeleceu uma nova regra em casa de consumir refrigerantes apenas nos fins de semana e a água finalmente foi introduzida em casa. Eu aprecio isso com certeza, apesar de naquela época eu reclamar muito. Hoje em dia posso dizer que estou sem açúcar falando sobre bebidas. Até no meu café, evito açúcar. Mas é claro que ainda como às vezes uma boa sobremesa com muito açúcar. Não podemos esquecer que alimentos altamente calóricos também são transformados em açúcar em nossos corpos, como pão e macarrão. Mas tento comer mais equilibrado quando adulta e tento educar minhas duas filhas assim.

  Então estou dizendo que meus filhos não comem pirulitos, biscoitos e bolos? Não. Eles ainda comem esses alimentos, só que não todos os dias. Eles estão aprendendo que, apesar do açúcar ser tão bom, não podemos comer muito. Temos um exemplo em nossa família que passou por um caminho diferente, agora esse garoto tem 12 anos e tem alguns problemas de obesidade. Eu vi esse problema crescendo desde que ele era um bebê e os pais estavam dando a ele bolo e coca-cola (a normal, não a sem açúcar). Como muitas vezes neste blog, mencionei que podemos fazer qualquer coisa com moderação, e o açúcar é algo com que precisamos ter cuidado, pois ele nos vicia como muitas outras drogas viciantes, como álcool e nicotina. Não posso dizer que uma é pior que a outra, porque todas elas podem causar problemas graves à saúde e abusar de uma delas é muito ruim na sua vida.

  Eu seria hipócrita se dissesse que não uso nenhuma droga, e às vezes abuso delas, é claro, especialmente quando você vai a uma festa de aniversário, eu até bebo coca-cola normal. Quando abuso de muito açúcar, me sinto culpado e também sinto que meu corpo diz que comi demais. Quando como muito açúcar, sinto um pouco de náusea e não consigo comer novamente por muitas horas. Quando você vai a uma festa de aniversário brasileira, onde você pode encontrar muitas guloseimas feitas com leite condensado. Delicioso no momento, mas um pouco doloroso depois.


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  Biologicamente falando, a glicose é importante para nossa vida, é a fonte de energia do nosso corpo junto com o oxigênio. No entanto, durante nossa progressão como sociedade, começamos a abusar de sua presença em alimentos, em particular os processados. E abusando do açúcar podemos ficar viciados e também trazer alguns problemas avassaladores, como Diabetes e Obesidade. Mas ele traz alguma felicidade e podemos tomá-lo de vez em quando sem problemas de consciência.


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Moderation is the key to all we do in life, whether it is eating or drinking or even sugar intake. Nice read.

Sugar is good but limiting it is still the best as the harmful aspect of it is not a good story to tell.

Limiting your kids from eating too much of it is also better, although it is good for them.

It's good to take it most especially our kids, but taking it too much is not advisable. I do give my kids some native herbs to my kids so that they can be free from sugar, at least.

é algo complicado a questão de glicose, pois ela é nosso combustível, porém em excesso pode ser muito prejudicial, interessante a sua redução nos carboidratos de alto índice glicêmico e reduzindo o consumo de ultra processados, ajuda consequentemente a ter uma melhor qualidade de vida.

You mean treats made with manjar? I love that stuff! Too much sugar isn't good for you especially as we age, but it's a healthier habit than cocaine!
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Sugar is not good for us and avoiding it can be the best thing we can do but the question is will we choose to do it? I think I won't choose to do it because sweets are my favorites and it's not easy to leave the sugary things for me but fortunately, I don't take it every day.

My problem is more with pizza and other cheezy products lol . But for sure if there is a chocolate bar in front of me is dangerous 🤣

You and buy it and send it to me.🤣


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Taking sugar isn't the problem, after all our body needs the glucose extracted from it but it becomes a problem when it becomes too much in the body, and it's basically the same with most things in life; too much of everything is bad, and can be very damaging in the long run

Like everything my friend… even too much water is bad hehhee

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What about the addiction of chocolates and the biscuits which have a lot of sugar added. Not blaming any generation for consuming any of these but I suppose glucose required by our body and these artificial stuff digested each time needs to have detailed description. Obesity is closely related to consumption of sugar and lifestyle also influences its lower digestion rate . Before writing this just ate jam toasted bread hehe.

I love jam!! Just a avoid jam with sugar added hehehe the fruit usually has a lot of sugar! We need to be rational and control ourselves not only with sugar but everything that in excess makes something bad to us.. including other people 🤣

You mean we must avoid sugary people but what about salty people ( who are the first one to irritate our wounds and miseries) hehe ohhh another category spicy peeps whose presence is always irritating 🤣

A whole food menu 🤣

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