Sugar Free: 9 Life Changing Reasons To Follow A Sugar Free Diet: The Healthy Lifestyle Guide To Sugar Free Diets (Detox, Sugar Free, Sugar Free Diet, Diabetes ... Weight Loss Tips, Sugar Free Recipes,) by Hoskins Emily

Author:Hoskins, Emily [Hoskins, Emily]
Language: eng
Format: azw
Published: 2015-01-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6: Looking For Nutrients and Better Teeth? Time to Quit Sugar!

It’s worth repeating over and over again that added sugar contains absolutely no essential nutrients and is very bad for your health. It is often called a drug as it has been stripped of all nutrients during refining. It has simply vacant, empty calories contributing to weight gain and health problems because the body must obtain vital nutrients from healthy cells to synthesize the overload of sugar. Most of the processed foods contain sucrose and fructose in large amounts and have no proteins, essential fats, vitamins or minerals and is just pure energy. When 10-20% of your daily calorie requirement is met from sugar, this results in nutrient deficiencies and creates major health problems. Excess sugar content leads to chromium and copper deficiencies and also interferes with the body’s absorption of calcium, magnesium, sodium and potassium. With higher levels of sugar, more calcium is taken from the cells to neutralize its effects and this causes calcium deficiencies leading to conditions like osteoporosis.

Calcium is the most prominent nutrient required for the health of teeth. When calcium is withdrawn from cells to compensate for the sugar levels, it badly affects the vitality of teeth and decay occurs. Sugar provides easily digestible energy for the bacteria in the mouth which produce acids that dissolve and damage teeth. This causes loss of enamel leading to cavities and exposure of inner layers of the teeth which become sensitive and painful. A study conducted by Harvard University proved that the risk of dental caries increases if the sugar consumption is in a sticky form that can attach to the surface of the teeth. This calls for eliminating such food items from the diet.

Thus, the key to better teeth is quitting sugar, or avoiding it as much as possible, be it in food or drinks. If at all you do need soft drinks, try to keep that to a minimum and drink a good deal of water just after every sweet or acidic drink.

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