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YOUR SWEETEST ENEMY

Writer's picture: Jayashree JJayashree J

Wonder who is your sweetest enemy? It’s the REFINED WHITE SUGAR you have it in your kitchen.

I know anyone will love sugar. Just because it makes everything sweet, even a bad mood too. We Indians commonly use refined white sugar on a daily basis. But do you know this refined sugar was not at all in our food before 2 centuries. It came into India only due to the foreign invasion. And now we have to definitely go back to our own traditional sweeteners. I will tell you why.


The sugar that we purchase in the market is definitely not a natural substance yet a chemical item which utilizes synthetic substances like sulfur dioxide, calcium hydroxide, phosphoric acid and polyacrylamides. The process refining, bleaching and polishing strips sugar from all of its regular advantages and what we get is a compound stacked chemical item which accomplishes more damage than anything else.


Some of its harmful effects to your body are,


  • Be it Corona or whatever the infection may be, having a strong immune system will help you to stay healthy by either preventing the infection or by fighting and winning over it. You all might have at least understood now how important is to have a strong immune power. Why am I saying this here? Yes I have a reason. Refined Sugar can depress your immune system by fueling the bad bacteria. Too much intake can even reduce the effectiveness of immune cells for a few hours, soon after the consumption too. This is why many kids get sick after a function. So think what happens when we consume it on a regular basis.

  • Refined sugar causes Type II Diabetes and obesity. Excess sugar makes the body resistant to insulin which is which is answerable for controlling diabetes. And when this happens, insulin instructs the body to store fat, eventually leading to obesity.

  • Refined sugar is a threat to male and female fertility. The insulin imbalance caused by this refined sugar extends to female health specific conditions such as Polycystic ovary syndrome(PCOS), which is when reproductive hormones gets imbalanced and causes fertility issues. Speaking about male fertility, the chemical Polyacrylamides (a known neurotoxin) present in refined sugar can damage the male reproductive glands resulting it to produce low quality sperms. (Whereas on the opposite, palm jaggery or palm sugar actually enhances your fertility and helps in maintain a good reproductive health).

  • There’s ‘good’ cholesterol known as HDL and ‘bad’ cholesterol known as LDL. Taking refined sugar decreases your HDL which is meant to remove LDL. It also increase the levels of triglycerides which in turn increments the hazard of heart disease.

  • Refined sugar is high in fructose which only the liver can metabolize. When there's overabundance of fructose, our liver comes up short to do its metabolism effectively. The fructose gets changed over into fat and builds up over time, eventually driving to disease.

  • Refined Sugar is additionally linked with breast, pancreatic and colon cancer. This happens since expanded refined sugar admissions in our body raise the generation of insulin which in turn increments the development of cancerous cells.

  • You wouldn’t feel the necessity to purchase anti-aging creams or other beauty creams, if you cut off taking refined sugar. Consuming it, can harm collagen and elastin generation which keep up the skin’s elasticity. So beauties, note it down.

  • Eating refined sugar gives us a hit of dopamine, since it feels great, which dopamine makes us want more. When sugar takes off the body, it leads to sentiments of withdrawal and clears out you needing for more. This in turn puts your temperament down. Sugar is bit like a drug. Be away from its addiction.


The Bottom line on Refined White Sugar

Either refined sugar is an empty food that has no nutritional value (It lacks any essential proteins, minerals and vitamins) or refined sugar is a slow poison causing many number of harmful effects in your physical and emotional health. Even now certain problems that exist in our body is may be because of this refined sugar. So just cut off this toxic from your diet. Trust me, it’s worth it.


So what’s the Alternative??

Get back to our own traditional sweeteners like palm sugar (panakalkandu) and palm jaggery (panaivellam), cane sugar (nattusakkarai) and coconut sugar (Thenaisakkarai). All these are better options for sweeteners. All these are not chemical toxic substance like refined sugar. It is natural and it is highly packed with good nutritive value. And most importantly some of these are also used for medicinal purposes.


So choose wisely. It’s high time to change!


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