Insidious pleasure: how life will change if you don't eat sugar for a week

 Scientists have linked the love of tea with chocolates to the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases. Snacking on foods with sugar content in general brings minimal health benefits. Of course, desserts cheer up many people, but this is a rather debatable plus.

What will happen if you limit the consumption of such products for a week.

Healthy skin. To date, more than 300 theories of aging have been proposed. For example, British professor David Gunn conducted a study involving 600 people. He studied their facial features, measured their blood sugar levels and divided the subjects into four groups. It found that participants with the lowest blood sugar levels looked younger than others. His work is confirmed by the results of scientific research by scientists from Germany, published in an authoritative scientific journal. If you give up sweets for a week, you can notice that the skin is noticeably refreshed.

A healthy heart. Experts from the National Center for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed a database of sugar consumption by tens of thousands of people in the United States and compared it with information on mortality from cardiovascular diseases. The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). According to the results, people who get a quarter of their daily caloric intake from added sugar in food and drinks have three times the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease than those who don't indulge in sweets.

Healthy nerves. There are a number of studies that confirm that sugar affects the pleasure centers of the brain, making us want more of it. There is also evidence that we usually turn to sugar when we are sad and lonely. According to researchers from Germany and Great Britain, published in the journal Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, after eating sweets, you will not only not feel joy and a surge of energy in the end, but will also become more lethargic and less energetic. Sugar makes our mood "jump". At first the pleasure is really overwhelming, and then when the blood sugar drops, it gets even worse. Refusing sweet foods for a week will clearly demonstrate how stable the psychological state will be.