Sugar or sucrose as it's technically called is derived from sugarcane and sugar beet,
and it is in almost everything nowadays, including soft drinks, sports drinks, cakes, and yes even
pizza dough. The FDA specifically defines the term sugar whenever it is listed in an ingredient
statement. FDA restricts the use sugar to sucrose which is obtained from sugar beets and sugar cane.
So to be crystal clear the sugar I am discussing in this video is sucrose, and it is made up of a
glucose molecule and a fructose molecule, and you may also know it as plain old table sugar. So the
question is, is added sugar healthy? After we ingest sucrose it doesn't actually get
digested until it gets to the small intestine, an enzyme called sucrase splits the bond between the
glucose molecule and the fructose molecule, the molecules then get transported to the liver for
further processing. Fructose is almost completely metabolized in the liver, there it is converted in
four different ways, it is converted to glucose or lactate, where it is used normally to fuel cells,
or it's converted to glycogen or plasma triglyceride. As for glucose, it leaves
the liver and travels into the bloodstream going to nearly every cell in the body. As the glucose
enters the bloodstream the pancreas is triggered to release the hormone insulin. Now insulin
travels in the bloodstream to the cells and tells them open up, let the glucose enter. Once inside,
the cells convert the glucose to energy for immediate use or they store it for later. Glucose
is also stored as glycogen in the muscles and liver. So what are the effects of all this sugar
intake? Well there are tons, and tons, and tons, of studies showing different negative effects
of sugar on Health, far too many to discuss in this video. In researching this subject the most
common link I found was sugar to obesity. And the health risks of obesity, coronary heart disease,
high blood pressure, stroke, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and on, and on, and on the
list is almost endless. BFL bottom effing line, moderation, check out the amount of added sugars,
and the items you're consuming. Try and stay under the American Heart Association's recommendations,
and remember, sucrose, it's just those two molecules, no other nutrients not at all,
just empty calories and if you don't burn it off it's gonna get stored as fat.