Although it’s super tasty, consumption of sugar in excess amounts can cause severe damages over your health. Take a look at the following signs of excess sugar consumption:
Fatigue – Sugars provide the body with stamina and energy boosts, but only for a short period of time.
Carb and sugar craving – If you crave for sugar all the time, then you might be a sugar addict. If you can’t imagine a day without sugar or carb, you are a potential sugar addict.
Chronic flu and colds – Sugar provokes weakening of the immunity, thus preventing it from fighting against flu, colds, and viruses. This leads to fogginess of the brain after meals. The excess sugar consumption makes sugar spikes. The lack of control of sugar intake provokes cognition problems.
Lost sweetness – Excess sugar consumption provokes buds for taste which is damaged to sugar foods. Although we crave for more sugar, we still lack sweetness.
Skin and feet problems – Sugar consumption provokes increase of the inflammation, thus resulting in skin issues. If you have eczema, dryness, rosacea, oiliness, and acne, then the fault is in sugar. Remove it. According to the podiatrist NY S. Green, sugar provokes feet inflammation, too. It makes pain in the thick layer across the heel, sole, and root. Moreover, sugar provokes under eye circles and adrenal fatigue.
Weight gain – Excess sugar consumption provokes insulin release, that results in weight gain. In this case, the body is not capable of dealing with insulin and leads to weight gain, which further lead to diabetes.
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