Many people like sweet-tasting foods, oblivious of the dangers of high sugar intake.
Sugar is highly addictive because it causes release of dopamine in the brain.
Those who like taking sugary foods will therefore want to take it more and more.
It requires a lot of discipline to reduce sugar intake and better to avoid taking sugar at all. After all, sugar contain "empty calories" with no nutritional value.
Sugar has more negative effects in your body than you may ever imagine.
Sugar is broken down into simple sugars, fructose and glucose.
When the liver is overloaded with fructose, it turns them into fats leading to liver diseases.
Sugar also makes the blood acidic, a good environment for growth of yeasts.
This may lead to a fungal infection known as candida.
Sugar raises cholesterol leves leading to heart complications.
According to healthyliving.com, sugar is also known to cause cancer due to its harmful effects on metabolism.
Other harmful effects of sugar include obesity, rot of teeth, arthritis and ulcers.