Editor | Jizhong Pepsi
Candy in the market may be poison. Parents should never let their children eat any more. It is even more harmful than smoking.
In life, it is common for children to cry, and many parents choose to make their children happy with candy. But as parents and family members, do you know how harmful sugar is to human body? So how can we avoid it?
According to the data, during the COVID-19 epidemic, many Mexicans were consciously isolated at home, but Mexicans had a very bad habit. They like to drink some drinks with high sugar content.
The isolation at home, lack of exercise, and frequent drinking of some drinks with very high sugar content make many Mexicans very obese.
Data show that the mortality rate of these overweight Mexicans infected with the virus is much higher than that of normal people.
So why is sugar so harmful to people?
To know the answer to this question, we must go back to ancient times and understand why the human body needs to ingest sugar.
We all know that the evolutionary history of human beings is millions of years. Millions of years ago, human beings were in a state of energy shortage for a long time.
In ancient times, people looked around for something to eat to maintain the basic characteristics of life out of survival instinct.
During this period, they found that eating honey will make them more energetic, and all this is because honey contains a lot of sugar.
So how important is sugar to the human body?
According to later research, 70% of the energy of our human activities is provided by sugar.
All tissues and organs of the human body rely on the heat generated by sugar oxidation to maintain their life characteristics, so gasoline is the power source of the car and sugar is the fuel of the human body.
Moreover, sugar is the only source of heat energy in the brain nervous system, which needs sugar to support the body's limb movement and blood circulation.
However, sugar is different from gasoline. Gasoline is only used as fuel for cars, but sugar is one of the important raw materials for human tissues.
Sugar is one of the most important components of human nerves, cartilage, bones and other important organs and tissues.
It can be said that all kinds of tissues and organs of the human body basically have sugar components.
So if sugar is so important, why is it said that sugar may be poison? Where is its harm to human body?
When we give candy to children, do you find such a phenomenon? After eating this candy, the child will want to eat the second and third candy, which seems to be never enough.
This phenomenon shows that sugar is actually addictive, because sugar will send a pleasant signal to the brain after entering the body. When this signal reaches the central nervous system, the body will get excited and secrete endorphins.
Endorphins, also known as the natural opium of the human body, can relieve the pressure of the human body and enhance the pleasure of the body, just like smoking addiction and alcohol addiction, which will make the human body like this feeling.
After a long time, children will develop the habit of eating sugar, and they will feel very excited and happy when eating sugar.
Most of the products sold in the market are fructose, but these fructose are different from ordinary sucrose and glucose.
After this fructose enters the child's body, it will increase the child's blood uric acid, making the body unable to complete normal metabolism, leading to excessive fat accumulation, and eventually leading to an increase in blood pressure.
Not only that, fructose can also cause arteriosclerosis, which is an indispensable part of our body to transport blood. If it goes wrong, it will lead to a series of serious diseases and even death.
So what happens if children eat a lot of sugar and sweets?
In order to let us see the harm caused by sugar more intuitively, a foreign brother decided to lead by example and experience it for himself.
My brother decided to continue the experiment for two months and eat 40 spoonfuls of sugar (200 grams) every day to see what his health would be like after two months.
At first, my little brother's blood pressure was normal, his heart rate was 75, and his physical condition was better than the average person.
On the first morning, my little brother found it easy to eat 40 spoonfuls of sugar a day, because he ate 20 spoonfuls of sugar for breakfast.
And this breakfast is just a bottle of yogurt, some cereal and a glass of juice.
These little brothers didn't stop after eating. They eat all kinds of foods with very high sugar content every day. In just two weeks, my little brother gained 7 pounds.
In this way, after another week, the physical examination found that the little brother's liver had begun to accumulate fat.
Soon my little brother spent a month in a high-sugar life every day. Compared with himself a month ago, my little brother has a lot of bad temper and becomes restless without eating sweets.
As long as I eat sugar, my brother's blood sugar will rise rapidly, and my whole body will be in a state of excitement, as if I were holding a concert in my mind.
However, after eating sugar for only 45 minutes, my brother's mood became very low and he showed symptoms of fatigue. The whole person seems to have lost faith and backbone.
In just two months, my little brother gained 17 kg, and his waistline soared 10 cm. At the same time, he unfortunately developed fatty liver in his body.
So how much harm will excessive intake of sugar cause to children?
Candy contains a lot of sucrose, which will promote the reproduction of bacteria in the mouth when it enters the mouth, thus causing calcification and softening of children's teeth, which is what we call tooth decay.
Once the child has tooth decay, we should take the child to the hospital for treatment in time, so don't take any chances.
If not treated in time, the consequences may be very serious, because the formation of tooth decay is caused by bacterial reproduction, so if not treated in time, bacteria will corrode the surrounding healthy teeth.
With the increase of corroded tooth area, it is likely that all children's teeth will fall off, and diseases such as pulpitis and periapical periodontitis may also occur.
So how can we avoid tooth decay?
In fact, children should not consume too much sugar in infancy, and should drink more boiled water.
With the growth of children's age, you can occasionally eat some foods with high sugar content, such as candy and cakes, but you must pay attention to cleaning your oral hygiene in time, so that you can brush your teeth in the morning and evening and rinse your mouth after meals.
However, the harm of sugar does not stop there. Long-term intake of excessive sugar can also make children suffer from childhood obesity.
Although sugar is an essential substance for the human body, when sugar enters the human body, the insulin in the body will slowly melt and absorb, but the human body is like a water tank, and it also has a certain capacity.
After these sugars are absorbed, the body will use some of them to provide energy for basic human activities, and the rest will be stored.
But once the stored sugar is too much, the body has no place to excrete sugar, so these useless sugar can only be converted into fat and stored in the human body.
If children no longer like sports and can't eat these fats, then children are very likely to suffer from childhood obesity.
As we all know, it is easy to eat fat, but difficult to lose weight. But what will children face once they suffer from childhood obesity?
First of all, because of the existence of a large amount of fat, children's blood lipids will be higher than those of children with normal weight. The disorder of blood lipids is very dangerous and it is easy to cause symptoms of hyperlipidemia in children.
Moreover, with the child's obesity, the total metabolism and oxygen consumption will also increase, leading to heart overload, which will lead to the formation of children's hypertension.
At the same time, in order to maintain blood sugar metabolism, the body will secrete a lot of insulin, which will easily lead to islet failure, which will lead to diabetes.
Because of obesity, children's respiratory system will also be affected, and lung ventilation function will also be limited, which will easily lead to respiratory diseases.
Of course, there are other reasons for childhood obesity, but too much sugar intake is one of the main reasons.
Children who eat too much sweets are also picky eaters. Sugar and wine are pure calorie foods, which have almost no nutritional value except providing calories to the human body.
Sugar not only provides calories, but also makes people feel full, so children will feel bored with food and have no desire for food after eating sugar.
If you don't eat dinner for a long time, or just eat a little, your body will not be able to ingest other trace elements except calories, which will lead to malnutrition in children over time.
Malnutrition is on the one hand, and children's growth is also inseparable from the supplement and absorption of calcium, but sugar is acidic food, but calcium is alkaline.
After the sugar and calcium in the body are fused together, the two will form a chemical reaction, and the acid and alkali will neutralize, which will eventually lead to a large loss of calcium in the child.
Many parents are struggling with why their children are nearsighted. Are you studying too hard? Read too much?
But in fact, many parents have overlooked a very important reason. If the child is nearsighted, it is probably not an external cause, but a disease from the mouth.
After eating too much sugar, the child's blood sugar will increase accordingly, and the osmotic pressure of body fluids will also decrease accordingly, so that the lens will protrude and deform, and the diopter will increase, so that the child will be prone to myopia.
The decrease of calcium content in children is also one of the reasons for children's myopia. The decrease of calcium content will reduce the elasticity of the developing extraocular sclera.
At this time, if children do not pay attention to eye hygiene, it is very easy to form myopia.
Therefore, in order to make children's eyesight healthy, they should not only get enough rest time for their eyes, but also pay attention to healthy diet.
Be sure to let children eat less sweets, try to reduce sugar intake, and at the same time be sure to supplement vitamin B, such as letting children eat more carrots and egg yolks.
The last point, which parents are most concerned about, is that children who eat too much sugar often have lower IQ than ordinary children.
Because a child's brain development is inseparable from nutrition, he needs enough protein and vitamins. If he eats sweets, his appetite will be reduced a lot, and the lack of nutrition will affect his brain development.
So as parents, how can we control the sugar intake of our children?
Because the human body has a natural demand for sugar, children will instinctively like sweets, and naturally it is difficult to accept other flavors of food.
Then as parents, we should try our best to make our children eat less sweets. Now our living conditions are very different from those of ancient humans.
The reason why ancient people wanted to eat sweets such as honey was because they were very short of energy, so they could only get energy from these rare foods.
There are many ways and foods to get energy in our life now, and we don't need to consider whether children will lack energy because they don't eat sugar.
We should focus on cultivating children's natural taste when they start to add complementary food, and stay away from sweets from now on, so that children will not like sugar too much in the future.
Parents' own behavior is also an important factor affecting children. If parents like sweets and drinks very much, you should know that children are very curious and parents don't want to drink boiled water, so how can children drink willingly?
According to the survey, many parents will use their children's favorite sweets to achieve their goals. For example, candy will be used as a reward to let your children do something. If children do it, they will be rewarded with candy and other sweets accordingly.
However, although this kind of behavior can restrict children from eating sweets to a certain extent, it will only make children have a greater desire to eat sweets, but it will only cure the symptoms.
In some European countries, in order to restrict children from eating candy, they will take Sunday as candy day, and children can only eat candy on this day.
Some parents think that since sugar is so harmful to children, it is good to ban children from eating sweets and sweets.
But candy is children's favorite delicacy, so it is cruel for us to deprive them of the right to taste it.
Moreover, some studies have found that children's rebellious psychology is more serious in families that completely prohibit their children from eating sweets.
Then, as parents, children should be strictly controlled to eat sugar, and their rights to eat sugar should not be completely cut off, nor should they be allowed to eat too much sugar.
Children are not sensible and don't know how harmful these are, but as parents, we have to bear the responsibility. For the sake of children's health all their lives, we should teach them to eat less sweets and sugar
So why is excessive intake of sugar more harmful than smoking?
You know, cigarettes will release 38 kinds of harmful substances when burning, and the main components are tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide.
Among them, tar is very harmful to human mouth, throat and trachea. Data show that after the age of 60, the proportion of long-term smokers suffering from lung diseases is 74%.
When smoking, many smokers say that smoking can refresh the mind and inspire, but these are actually psychological effects.
According to experiments, smoking will seriously affect people's intelligence, not only can not refresh themselves, but also reduce the efficiency of work and study.
Studies by relevant departments have found that smoking is the fastest way for the human body to produce free radicals. Even every cigarette smoked will produce 654.38 million free radicals.
These free radicals are the basis of cancer and many chronic diseases.
Moreover, smoking will also lead to the early arrival of menopause, and may also make men lose their sexual and reproductive functions.
But according to statistics, people who smoke secondhand smoke have higher morbidity and mortality than those who smoke directly, because the smoke produced by smoking can emit more than 4000 kinds of harmful substances.
These are very strong irritants, and at least 40 of them can cause cancer in humans and animals.
And this kind of harm is more intuitive for housewives who don't smoke, because they don't smoke themselves, but their husbands are making second-hand smoke every day.
Data show that the death rate of these housewives who smoke secondhand smoke every day is 2.4 times that of their husbands.
According to the statistics of the World Health Organization, about 5 million people get sick and die from smoking every year. Tobacco has become "the second killer in the world", and the first killer is hypertension.
In fact, in our present society, children basically don't smoke, so tobacco is basically harmless to children.
But sugar is different. Children naturally like to eat sugar, and too much sugar intake can easily lead to symptoms such as high blood pressure.
It is said that children are our hope. If the child suffers from high blood pressure due to excessive intake of sugar, which leads to serious death, then we have no hope.
Therefore, our parents must pay special attention to their children's diet, and never spoil their children just because they love to eat. Such consequences are probably unacceptable to us.