#limitsugar

So let's say you've incorporated an additional amount of physical activity into your daily doings and even renovated your diet to eating clean, wholesome foods but what about your beverage intake? Does the additional sugary sweetness within your iced tea or soda pop play a role in a development of obesity? Or is it because one over-consumes on their caloric intake? The obesity epidemic is rising among children and adolescents alone. How to target these uprising causes is still unknown and unclear to society. One causing factor of increased cases would be the lack of knowledge-deficit in nutrition and the importance role it plays in maintaining body weight composition.  As obesity cases become more severe, I think it's time to rethink not only portions and food choices, but beverage consumption of excess sugar. With some many different aliases of sugar in society today, it is controversial to which is best for our health. Society's trend in using sucrose over high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is not essentially 'healthier' by any means. Sugar all breaks down some way in the body and it ends up metabolizing through the liver. Some common types of sugar seen are, added sugars, high-fructose corn syrup, glucose, fructose, and sucrose that are in the typical foods we consume daily. What has become norm to the American-diet is the use of HFCS. Americans have adapted to the sweetness and preferably want even more additional sweetness to their drink or meal. With such easy excess  to these sugar-packed drinks from fast food places, restaurants  or even vending machines, it is hard to steer away from eliminating these beverages from the everyday diet. Insulin is stimulated in different ways depending on the sugar used. Typically natural fructose increases metabolic rate faster than of glucose which increases insulin released in the pancreas first before secretion. Even with having different effects on the human body, all sugar consumptions lead to the same conclusion on health.  Without a say, having HFCS in moderation is OK. There is nothing wrong with having a soda, here and there, but if one is wanting to watch their weight and control their body mass index to a better appropriated place be careful of choosing the wrong beverages. Instead, decide on sugar-free teas or 100% fruit juices if you are craving something extra sweet. It is generally easy to over-drink your calories away without knowing. Be cautious in your decisions and make way to choosing options for bettering your health by staying away from those extra sweetened drinks. Source: George A Bray, Samara Joy Nielsen, Barry M Popkin . Consumption of high-fructose corn syrup in beverages may play a role in the epidemic of obesity.. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Volume 79, Number 4 (April 2004), pp. 537-543