High level of sugar not only put pressure on liver, but led to high glucose level in blood which damaged organs.
Three scientists, Robert Lustig, Laura Schmidt and Claire Brindis from the University of California, San Francisco are calling for governments worldwide to regulate foods and drinks with 'added sugar' as strictly as alcohol and tobacco. They are also calling for the sugary foods to be banned in and around schools, placing age limits on purchases as not only is it taxing to the liver, causing fatty liver disease, and ultimately leading to insulin resistance, but claim it to be the underlying causes of obesity and diabetes.
A 2010 United Nations report revealed that, for the first time, more people are dying the so-called "lifestyle diseases" like heart disease, than from infectious disease. "The UN announcement targets tobacco, alcohol and diet as the central risk factors in non-communicable disease," wrote the researchers. "Two of these three - tobacco and alcohol - are regulated by governments to protect public health, leaving one of the primary culprits behind this worldwide health crisis unchecked."
Kidneys cleanse your blood, if there is too much sugar it blocks the kidney nephrons, leading to kidney failure.
The researchers argued that sugar by its own nature, like those present in fruit, is not harmful. But in recent years, sugar has been added to virtually every processed food, limiting consumer choice. Evolutionarily, sugar as fruit was available to our ancestors for only a few months a year (at harvest time), or as honey, which was guarded by bees, nature made sugar hard to get, but man made it easy. In many parts of the world now, people are consuming an average of more than 500 calories per day from added sugar alone.
The fructose component of sugar and H.F.C.S. is metabolized primarily by the liver, while the glucose from sugar and starches is metabolized by every cell in the body, then filtered off by your kidneys. Consuming too sugar means more work for the liver, and if the glucose level is too high, your kidney cells can quickly be damaged.
"It's not about the calories," Lustig is quoted in the New York Times Magazine as saying. "It has nothing to do with the calories. It's a poison by itself." His article states, "Ultimately, food producers and distributors must reduce the amount of sugar added to foods. But sugar is cheap, sugar tastes good and sugar sells, so companies have little incentive to change."
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