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When Sweets Stop Being a Treat
糖的甜蜜陷阱
－Marie McMaster
11/9
Few can say no to a little something sweet, but unfortunately, too much sugar in our diet can damage our health. It’s easy to consume too much sugar because there’s a lot of it hidden in everyday supermarket products like sauces, soda, yogurt, and cereal. To understand sugar’s negative health effects, take a look at what eating excessive amounts of it can do to your body.
Your energy
Foods rich in sugar are high in calories, so we should eat them if we want more energy, right? Actually, it’s essential to keep our blood sugar level stable rather than causing it to peak by eating a sweet snack. High sugar levels give us energy in the short term, but then we experience a “crash” as the body seeks more sugar to get our levels back up again. 
Your mood
We’ve all reached for comfort food, such as a tub of ice cream or a chocolate bar, when we feel down. However, there is some research that shows a link between processed foods, especially those high in sugar, and depression. This link is thought to be caused, in part, by the rapid changes in sugar levels affecting our brain.

很少人能拒絕少量的甜食，但遺憾的是，飲食中有太多糖可能會損害我們的健康。我們很容易就攝取過多的糖，因為有很多糖隱藏在日常的超市商品中，像是醬料、汽水、優格和早餐麥片。要了解糖對健康的負面影響，就來看看食用過量的糖對身體會有什麼作用。
你的精力
富含糖的食物熱量高，所以如果我們想要精力更充沛就應該吃這些食物，對吧？事實上，保持血糖值的穩定而不是藉由吃甜點讓血糖飆高是必要的。高血糖在短期能提供我們精力，但之後身體尋求更多的糖來讓血糖值回復時，我們就會遇到血糖「劇降」的情況。
你的情緒
我們心情低落時都會去拿療癒食物來吃，像是一桶冰淇淋或一條巧克力棒。然而，有些研究指出加工食品（尤其是含糖量高的）和憂鬱症的關聯。這個關聯被認為有部分是由於影響我們大腦的血糖值快速變化而引起的。

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Your skin
We’ll all get wrinkles someday, but a high-sugar diet is thought to speed up the aging process. Sugar reacts with proteins in our body to form free radicals, which damage other proteins that help keep the skin looking youthful. Sugar has also been associated with an increase in the likelihood of acne.
Your weight
If we don’t immediately burn up the sugar we eat, then they are stored in our liver and muscles, and converted to fat. Eating certain kinds of sugar also actually makes us hungrier, so we end up eating more. The connection between sugar and obesity is now so widely acknowledged that many countries, such as Mexico and the UK, have introduced taxes on sugary drinks to make them more expensive and thus less appealing.
And if that hasn’t put you off sweet treats, there are lots of other health issues, including tooth decay, heart disease, diabetes, and even cancer linked to eating large amounts of sugar. If you want to beat your sugar cravings, try replacing soda with fizzy water and chocolates or candy with nuts or fresh fruit. A small sacrifice can go a long way.

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你的皮膚
我們有一天都會長皺紋，但高糖飲食被認為會加速老化的過程。糖會和我們體內的蛋白質產生反應而形成自由基，它會破壞其他幫助肌膚看起來年輕的蛋白質。糖也和青春痘的可能性增加有關。
你的體重
如果我們沒有立刻消耗所吃的糖，那麼它們就會儲存在我們的肝臟和肌肉中並轉化成脂肪。食用某些種類的糖事實上也會讓我們更飢餓，結果讓我們吃得更多。糖與肥胖的關聯現在普遍被接受，因此許多國家像是墨西哥和英國都已經對含糖飲料課稅，讓它們更昂貴以減少吸引力。
如果那樣還無法打消你吃甜食的念頭，還有很多其他健康問題，包括蛀牙、心臟疾病、糖尿病、癌症都和食用大量的糖有關。如果你想戰勝對糖的渴望，試著用氣泡水代替汽水，用堅果或新鮮水果取代巧克力或糖果。小小的犧牲會有很大的幫助。

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