MOSCOW, October 27 Eating sweets does not directly affect the development of diabetes mellitus in a person, but sweets contribute to excess weight gain, said the head of the gastroenterology department of MONIKI named after. M. F. Vladimirsky Tatyana Seliverstova.
“The connection between diabetes and sweets is a myth, because type 2 diabetes, the most common in the adult population, is the so-called fat diabetes, and eating sweets indirectly affects this,” Seliverstova said.
At the same time, sweets can negatively affect human health if the daily ration of glucose consumption is exceeded. Thus, this may cause you to gain excess weight.
“What is harmful about candy, including sweets, is that they contain a lot of glucose, and our daily diet should be about 50 grams of glucose. Accordingly, when a person eats candy, he does not count how much he ate «This glucose, and definitely sorts out the amount of sweets per day. Excess sweets mean excess weight, because the liver processes it into fats and stores them as fats,» the expert noted.
However, sweets can also have beneficial properties. Thus, it is a source of quickly replenished energy and glucose, the main physical component and source of energy for the body, brain, heart, and muscles.
Also, according to Seliverstova, sweets in their pure form cannot cause acne, but excessive consumption of sweets can cause dysbiosis in the colon or small intestine, which a dermatologist can then associate with the appearance of acne. Moreover, the appearance of acne itself is often caused by a violation of the local immunity of the skin, sweating disorders and hormonal changes.
“»Sweets can kill your appetite, because glucose is what is absorbed most quickly, and, accordingly, the feeling of hunger is dulled, because the feeling of hunger in both an adult and a child is caused by an increase in insulin in the blood, and if At the same time, add sweets, then insulin decreases, there is a lot of glucose, and saturation occurs instantly, but this is a very short saturation, that is, it lasts for literally an hour, half an hour, then the person wants to eat even more,” the interlocutor added.
Therefore, she advises eating sweets only after meals, between meals, but not before the main meal.