Breaking Up with The Sugars: Lose the Weight, Ditch the Diets, and Embrace Your Healthiest Life by Alex Cooper SUGAR has long been known to be bad for your health, exacerbating conditions like heart disease and type II diabetes. One of the most common problems are sugar addictions, which make their mark on our waistlines and give us peaks and troughs. Sugar addiction is comparable to some drugs in the way that it stimulates the release of dopamine from your brain, which makes you want more and more. This cycle creates a sugar dependency that temporary picks you up, but over the long term drops your health and wellbeing. The Impact of Sugar on Weight and Energy Such high sugar diets can lead to gain in weight directly. Sugar is digested into glucose that quickly enters your bloodstream, which causes the pancreas to release insulin. The former helps insulin get glucose into the cells where it needs to go. But when sugar is ingested in abundance, the body becomes bombarded resulting to a resistance of insulin and storage of excessive glucose as fat.
