Sugar or Sweetener?
Author: mzPOTTER
The best answer to this question (sugar or sweetener?) Should be “none of the two.”
But the reality is that both white sugar and artificial sweeteners are increasingly present in food, making it more difficult to avoid in the daily diet.
Usually the choice is made between the consumption of one or the other based solely on caloric content, but the truth is that we can not just calories in choosing our daily food.
On the other hand, white sugar calories are “empty calories” because of the loss of any other nutrient during production and refining, losing vitamins and minerals. That’s why, if the choice of sugar by consumers is that it is a natural product (sugar cane), it should be noted that being a refined product, can have negative consequences if consumed in excess.
Let us see some problems that can bring over-consumption of sugar:
Besides not provide nutrients, sugar to be metabolized, requires the B vitamins, especially vitamin B1. This vitamin is usually eaten in small quantities, so if the agency must use the amount you have available to metabolize the sugar that is ingested, there is a risk of suffering a deficit of it.
It is also known that sugar consumption is related to cardiovascular disease and obesity, as excessive intake causes excess and the accumulation of fat, which can lead to blockage of the arteries and capillaries with the risk of heart attacks heart and brain.
It can also cause the development of diabetes when there is genetic predisposition. Nor should we forget the demineralizing effect and influence on the decay that has sugar, especially in children.
Besides that, there are studies that indicate that sugar consumption is instrumental in the development of stomach ulcers by irritating effect of the gastric mucosa.