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By looking at the cholesterol test results, you will be motivated to change your behavior in consuming food. You become a little bit afraid to face the fact that you are in a group of people who are at risk to suffer heart disease. This thing is good for your efforts to change lifestyles.
In addition to the first part about the myth of sugar, here are some other myths which are: Any type of sugar, 1 gram of sugar always contains 4 calories. However, sugar is often already undergone the process of adding (added sugar) so that the number of calories is not ‘just’ 4 again. The problem is, added sugar consist in many forms of food or beverages so that automatically increase the number of calories of the food or beverages. For example soft drinks that containing sugar (sugary soft drinks) and fruit-flavored beverages (fruit-flavored beverages). Both identified by U.S. Department of Agriculture as the largest source of added sugar.
Carbohydrates in the form of glucose are required to ensure the body’s organ to function properly and not stagnant. For this purpose, it is needed approximately 140 grams of glucose. When someone consumes foods that contain carbohydrates, like sugar or starch, your body instantly turn it into glucose, a simple carbohydrate which is then absorbed in the bloodstream and used as energy, once been absorbed, the body can not distinguish the source of this sugar. Insulin, a hormone that produced by the pancreas, it is function to ensure the availability of glucose for the body cells.
Allergy is a common disease among the people, but until today the awareness of this disease is still low. In fact, to overcome the allergies, it is required precise treatment so that allergy can not be a disease that will cause another dangerous disease. Allergy is a deviate reaction from the body that is related with elevated levels of immunoglobulin E, which is a mechanism of immune system. Allergic tendencies are influenced by two factors which are genetic and environmental (external body factor).