SUGAR, "ONLY AFFECT YOUR TEETH?

Dr. Susana Rivera Anchundia
Doctor of Dentistry University of Guayaquil 1992
Neural Therapy for Advanced Studies in 2003 Hanuman Foundation
Active member of AORYBG.

Introduction

One of the seemingly innocuous substances, yet one that creates the biggest problems our immune system attack is sugar.

Macrophages are stuck in the sugar and its action is impossible. The mission is to destroy macrophages, blocking and activating immunity when they detect the presence of a toxin, a virus or bacteria ... Every time you eat sugar, even as little as two tablespoons, the proportions of minerals entering imbalance.

As we know, sugar increases the incidence of tooth decay and disease throughout the body. Refined sugar causes imbalances in calcium and phosphorus in the blood that can lead to diseases such as arthritis, cancer, diabetes and osteoporosis

One of the more common habits and part of our daily life is the consumption of soft drinks, but how healthy are they?

TNCs from commercial sugar, coffee, tea, chocolate and soft drinks are among the strongest in the world, so surely, this chapter examines psychoactive selling at world. Some authors like Dr. Bruker, William Dufty, Laura Urbina and Nancy Appleton claim that as result, the information on these drugs is one of the rarest, manipulated and little known in the history of drugs. The economic interests behind them, particularly in the case of sugar, have been powerful enough to suspend, delay and even distort the conclusive scientific studies on the physical and psychological impact of this drug daily use of long term.

Phosphoric acid is used in all soft drinks for his useful feature to cause thirst. The other magic ingredient in cola drinks is caffeine, a nervous excitement, a bottle of Coke contains a quarter of the caffeine of a cup of coffee, but when someone consumes coca cola did not know that ingesting caffeine although it contains less can be more effective, since besides a coffee can be thinned with cream or milk and not drink, caffeine does its worst effects when it enters the empty stomach and generally soft drinks consumed between meals plus the Caffeine increases the effects by 60% when cold. The lethal dose of caffeine is 10 grams, that is the equivalent to 70 cups of coffee or 120 bottles of Coke, making clear that no such amount, but still the lower-dose effects may include: pathological changes in the gastrointestinal tract and peptic ulcers.

This is an analysis of one of the world's most consumed soft drinks:

Before and after the refining process (1)

Sugar is produced through a chemical process from sugar cane juice or beet.
In his book Poison in the food, Dr. Lezno describes the sugar extraction process as follows:

The beets are cut into pieces after washing and then leached. To make clear the liquid containing sugar, lime is added. At this point, the alkaline reaction destroys most vitamins. In refineries, the crude sugar is still sugar transform common or consumption, for which it must pass through several cleaning processes more calcium carbonate, bleaching with sulfuric acid and filtration through charcoal and cooking until the crystals.

Psychological and physiological effects

As indicated in the mechanisms of action, the intake of sugar is usually experienced as a mild euphoria. In the First Conscious Nutrition Handbook, Laura Urbina explains as follows:

While glucose is absorbed by blood, we are encouraged. A fast stimulus. However, this energy boost is followed by a depression. We are worried, tired, need to make an effort to move or even think. Until again raises glucose level ... We can be irritable, made a bundle of nerves, altered. The cumulative crisis at the end of the day can cause emotional instability. Every day we find a lack of efficiency, always tired, nothing we do really suffer from the "sugar blues" (or depressions of sugar) ... Since in some brain cells are totally dependent on supply of blood sugar in each time, are perhaps more susceptible to damage. The alarming and growing number of neurotics in the world is clearly evident. Not all reach the end. Some people start with strong adrenals, others not. However, the body does not lie - if you take sugar, feel the consequences.

Sugar and teeth

Too often heard that the sugar increases the rate of decay. The extent to which sugars and starches reinforce the action of decay-producing plaque depends on a number of factors, these can be for example, the concentration of sugars, how long they stay in the mouth and how often they are ingested . Moreover, it is essential to the action of saliva to dilute the content of the mouth and convert the starch into fermentable sugars or to neutralize acids. Sugars do not produce significant amounts of acid when no plaque or when plaque is present only in thin layers.

When less is the consumption of sugar, minus the work done by bacteria and therefore reduces the production of acids destroy the tooth enamel. Sugar and sweets are not the only ones responsible for tooth decay, foods rich in complex carbohydrates are what cause the most damage and that adhere to teeth and the acids formed in its degradation by bacterial action remain higher time in contact with enamel instead of being removed by saliva.

Among those at greatest risk include children, pregnant women and those over 40 years. The first acquisitions of poor eating habits, pregnant women caused by hormonal changes in your body that intensify the acidity in the mouth, and adults by the natural deterioration, but good oral hygiene can extend dental health without boundaries.

Recommendations

Given these effects as much refined sugar on the teeth and around the body is necessary to pause in our hectic lives and turn our eyes to the natural in our daily commitment to our health, and as responsible for the health of our family . There are natural foods that retain their wealth by not suffering from refining processes and also help maintain the alkalinity of the body, ie the release of acidity, a condition that causes the appearance of many diseases. Fortunately, nature provides us with a product harmless, noble and healthy that effectively replaces: honey, organic food, living, dead is not a substance like sugar. Unlike the latter, honey contains calcium that nourishes and strengthens the teeth and skeleton, iron, enriches the blood cells of blood, fighting, therefore, anemia, vitamins, which are substances essential for health; phosphorus, which is a tonic for the nervous system, glucose and fructose, which do not require processing by the digestive juices to be treated, enzymes, sucrose, protein, etc..

Conclusions

The increasing consumption of food where members are as refined sugars (often in combination with fats) such as sweets, candy, soft drinks, ice creams, jellies and others are increasingly shifting to food consumption in particular, fiber-rich carbohydrates (cereals, legumes, fruits and vegetables). Precisely the deficient intake of dietary fiber in conjunction with over-consumption of refined sugars and fats, are 2 factors that precipitate exponential called "diseases of civilization". To change the current state of chronic degenerative diseases such as obesity, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, among others, should remember the role of healthy eating, balanced, comprehensive and varied in the prevention or occurrence of these diseases, moderate consumption refined sugars or simple carbohydrates as part of a proper diet will be a protective factor against the development or appearance of these.

If this article comes to you in order to raise awareness for a better and healthier life, and as professionals able to advise our patients, then we are doing dentistry not only scientific but human, that is why we are contributing to the change as people are all after.