HOW COULD SUGAR MAKE US FAT?

SUGAR AND FAT RELATION

   We love to eat sweet - Fruits, Juices, Cakes, Pies, Aerated Drinks, Jams, Jellies and many more. Also we need sugar to fuel our body. The sugar is metabolized in our body and gets converted into glucose which fuels the body to work. Not only white sugar, brown sugar, honey, maltose or fructose but other carbohydrates that we get form breads, pastas, millets or grains also get converted to glucose.

   Now some questions arise - 

     1. Do we eat sugar in excess? 

     2. Will sugar make us diabetic? 

     3. Does sugar make us fat? 

   Simple answers to these questions are - 

     1. Yes, we eat excess sugar (many sources of sugar)

     2. Excess sugar may lead to weight gain and subsequently lead to diabetes and other life style problems.

     3. Yes, excess sugar makes us fat.     

Mechanism of Sugar getting converted into Fat

   Sugar is necessary but there is a common saying that excess of anything is bad. Here we are talking about our health so it becomes apparent that excess sugar is bad for our health. As glucose goes into the blood stream, pancreas releases an enzyme called insulin that help regulate glucose levels in the blood. Insulin makes sure that the amount of glucose produced by the liver matches bodily requirements at a particular moment of time. The lesser insulin will make liver release glucose into the blood and more insulin will inhibit liver from glucose production and store it as glycogen which may get converted into fat. When the liver and muscles are full, the excess fat gets released into the blood steam and gets accumulated into various regions of the body making us fat.