The Lurking Dangers Of Sugar Consumption On Kids

The ongoing war against obesity in the United Stated has been one of the country's alarming issues. Numerous health care professionals are continually raising awareness against the health risk of being obese as it is linked to numerous death defying illnesses. One of the culprits that dietitians were able to pinpoint is sugar. Eliminating sugar from your child diet has an immediate result as fast as 2-5 days.

Sugar does not only heighten the risk of obesity but it also increasing the risk of diabetes, hyperactivity, and intensifies ADD. Despite the fact that sugar greatly affects the body in a negative way, American children however consume a high amount of sugar as part of their daily diet, according to Washington Post. Their sugar consumption highly exceeded the recommended daily sugar consumption, thus making them highly obese and hyperactive at a young age.

Robert Lustig, a pediatrician the author of the study cited the dangers of consuming high sugar volume, "Where those calories come from determines where in the body they go. Sugar calories are the worst, because they turn to fat in the liver, driving insulin resistance, and driving risk for diabetes, heart and liver disease, this has enormous implications for the food industry, chronic disease and health care costs."

In line with the battle against high sugar consumption, a team of researchers from the University of California and Touro recruited 43 participants aged 9 to 18. The participants were then placed on a low-sugar diet while their overall health was being measured all throughout the trial. 27 Latino and 16 African Americans of the participants were highly obese with "metabolic health" concerns putting them on the borderline of having a fatty liver and high blood pressure at a young age.

The study came up with an astounding result wherein the rapid changes on the participants overall health ended up on a positive note. In just 10 days after sugar was removed from the children's diet, it was revealed that their blood pressure dropped, and their glucose tolerance and the amount of insulin on their blood flow stabilized.