FACTS AND FICTION OF SUGAR CONSUMPTION

People who indulge in sugar-heavy diets are 70 percent more likely to develop pancreatic cancer than those who shun the sweet stuff. Drinking lots of soft drinks nearly doubles the odds. Possibly, frequent, large doses of sugar are toxic to cells, causing damage that leads to cancer.

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Sugar makes you look younger
Fiction!
On the contrary, too many sweets can make your skin look older than normal. Sugar is attracted to collagen, a structural protein in the skin.
Normally, collagen keeps skin elastic and supple. But
when it hooks up with sugar, its structure changes and it can’t do its job properly, so you end up with a face that looks older.
Sugar causes Type 2 diabetes
Fact!
Type 2 diabetes (the more common kind) develops from eating too much of anything, including too much sugar. After eating the body breaks down food (sugary or otherwise) into glucose.
Too much food translates into too much glucose, signaling the pancreas to crank out high doses of insulin. This causes a pile up of sugar in the bloodstream instead of reaching the cells where it belongs.

Fruit sugar is different from cake sugar
Fiction!
Sugar is the same to the body, even though fruit sugar is still better.
The body treats the natural sugar in fruit and milk the same way it treats sugar from cake and candy, breaking it down to glucose for fuel and storing the excess as fat. But sugar from fruit gets absorbed slowly, while sugar from cake and other simple sugars increases blood sugar to levels that cause arteries to age

Sugar causes heart disease
Fact!
Consuming too much sugar raises troublesome blood fats known as triglycerides. When you eat more sugar than your body can burn, your liver repackages it into fat, then takes that fat and dumps it into your bloodstream, where it clogs up the arteries.