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WHY IS SUGAR ALWAYS TO BLAME?
Stating that the declaration of sugar as an enemy is not due to the fact that it is a glucose molecule, Biochemistry and Anti-Aging Expert said, “Because there is glucose in many foods we consume. Therefore, the cause of the harm caused by sugar is the nutrients from which that glucose comes,” she said.
Sugar is cited as one of the major causes of many serious diseases, from obesity to Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular and heart diseases to cancer. Because we are loaded with sugar with many nutrients that we consume today. So which sugar sources should we avoid and which ones should we consume?
Turkey Medicals member and JCI Istanbul hospital department Biochemistry and Anti-Aging Specialist explains the reasons and harm of sugar to health…
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GLUCOSE ENTERS OUR BODY ALSO IN THE HEALTHIEST DIET
We always hear these warnings: ‘Do not eat sugar, do not consume sweet flour products with sugar, simple carbohydrates’. So why did sugar make so many enemies? By sugar, I am referring to foods that eventually turn into glucose, that is, sugar in its final state as a molecule. Glucose is the molecule that our body uses for energy. There is a lot more glucose in the food than is thought. For example, even cucumbers contain glucose. All nuts, legumes, seeds contain molecules in them that will eventually break down and turn into glucose. So when you say ‘I don’t eat sugar‘, it doesn’t mean ‘I don’t take glucose’. In every way, glucose enters your body, that is, in the healthiest diets, too.
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WHAT SHOULD WE PAY ATTENTION TO?
Our problem with sugar is that if we consume slow foods with sugar at his speed, we will win the race. Here are the points you should pay attention to:
1- We will know well which candy is the enemy. We’ll be able to figure out what can get into the blood faster. All processed flour-sugary foods, sugary drinks, alcohol pass all other foods in this race, we will reduce them or stay away.
2- We will give weight to those who pass slowly into the blood. Legumes, nuts, fruits with little sugar, all vegetables.
3- We will increase the number of foods that have never been in the sugar race: fish, eggs, other meats, fatty vegetables such as avocados, olives.
4- We will send all the nutrients to the ‘slow’ stomach. We will eat them decently, chewing for a long time or putting time between our bites. So we will save the body time to cope with this sugar.
5- We will increase the movement so that more sugar is spent instead of fat.
6- We will take a break of at least 4 hours between meals so that our body has time to correct our sugar mistake in the food we ate before.
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ITS SOURCE IS IMPORTANT
We must take into account the source of the glucose we consume, that is sugar, because the declaration of sugar as an enemy is not because sugar is harmful as a glucose molecule, but because it is the source from which this glucose comes. Our body uses glucose to produce ATP energy. The energy needed to continue metabolic activities in the cell is obtained through ATP. In other words, the most important and basic task of ATP is to provide energy. In addition to glucose, it can also produce ATP energy from fats and proteins. But generating energy from glucose is a faster and simpler task. That’s why your body always prefers to use it as a priority if there is glucose around. But the simple carbohydrate foods with sugar flour mentioned send this sugar to the body more than necessary and faster than necessary.
There must be a balance between what is produced and the in energy production. More importantly, the production speed and usage speed should be at the same speed. When you eat a dessert, the flour and sugar in that dessert very quickly become energy. The reason is that it enters quickly because it is pre-processed food that does not take much digestion time. That’s why they are called simple carbohydrates. They are simple because their passage through the body is very fast. They do not linger with digestion. However, when you are told that you should eat the complex carbohydrates, what is meant is that you should eat glucose again. But these are foods that have been pre-processed in simplicity and have not been converted into flour-sugar, which glucose will immediately pass into the blood. Legumes, like nuts.
It takes time to digest these foods and separate the glucose in them. It’s about the fact that we need this time. In summary, the speed of entry and expenditure should be close to each other. We’ll have time to spend the ATP, which will consist of a slow entrant. However, because processed flour-sugar foods pass into the blood very quickly, we do not have time to spend our energy consisting of them, that is, our ATP. That’s when the body stops producing ATP if we don’t use it. Because ATP is not something that can be stored in large quantities. Our excess energy storage state is our fats. In other words, the fate of sugar entering the body quickly will be fat. This is a method that the body uses to support our existence based on its genes. If the food is coming too much or too fast, the body thinks ‘I should save it for the next famine days’.
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IT PROVOKES SERIOUS DISEASES
In short, the harm of sugar is that it is processed. Due to its processing, the body does not need to process it again when digesting it. As soon as you eat it, it turns into blood. If the ATP produced from it is not spent on our side at that moment on sports and movement, it is not the excess ATP stored, but the fat. In addition, the fact that sugary products quickly enter the blood surprises the body. It thinks we’re eating more than usual. Our body is more prone to perceive simple sugars in quantity than other complex carbohydrates. Because for the body, timing is everything. It knows that if the passage of glucose into the blood is fast, there will be no time to waste. That’s basically where the ‘you shouldn’t eat sugary’ logic comes from. Because increased fat storage leads to internal organ lubrication and many serious diseases.
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Turkey's world-renowned organ transplant specialist. Dr. Demirbaş has 104 international publications and 102 national publications.
Physician's Resume:
Born on August 7, 1963 in Çorum, Prof. Dr. Alper Demirbaş has been continuing his work as the President of MedicalPark Antalya Hospital Organ Transplantation Center since 2008.
Prof. who performed the first tissue incompatible kidney transplant in Turkey, the first blood type incompatible kidney transplant, the first kidney-pancreas transplant program and the first cadaveric donor and live donor liver transplant in Antalya. Dr. As of August 2016, Alper Demirbaş has performed 4900 kidney transplants, 500 liver transplants and 95 pancreas transplants.
In addition to being the chairman of 6 national congresses, he has also been an invited speaker at 12 international and 65 national scientific congresses. Dr. Alper Demirbaş was married and the father of 1 girl and 1 boy.
Awards:
Eczacibasi Medical Award of 2002, Akdeniz University Service Award of 2005, Izder Medical Man of the Year Award of 2006, BÖHAK Medical Man of the Year Award of 2007, Sabah Mediterranean Newspaper Scientist of the Year Award of 2007, ANTIKAD Scientist of the Year Award of 2009, Social Ethics Association Award of 2010, Işık University Medical Man of the Year Award of 2015, VTV Antalya's Brand Value Award of 2015.
Certificates:
Doctor of Medicine Degree Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine Ankara, General Surgeon Ministry of Health Turkey EKFMG (0-477-343-8), University of Miami School of Medicine Member of Multiple Organ Transplant, ASTS Multiorgan Transplant Scholarship. Lecturer at Kyoto University. Lecturer at University of Essen, Research assistant at the University of Cambridge .
Professional Members:
American Society of Transplant Surgeons, American Transplantation Society Nominated, Middle East and Southern Africa Council Transplantation Society 2007, International Liver Transplantation Association, Turkish Transplantation Association, Turkish Society of Surgery, Turkish Hepatobiliary Surgery Association.
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