Too much sugar stresses your system and slows down healthy diet plans

March 11, 2010 | No comments | Healthy Eating Guidelines

You may be giving yourself a sugar stress test every single day and you don’t even know it.

Doctors use what is called an oral glucose tolerance test to diagnose patients with prediabetes and diabetes.

For this test you consume 75 grams of glucose to see how your body body processes the sugar. It is essentially a stress test for your pancreas and is something you should not normally do. Yet, we seem to do this every day and many times worse than this test.

One 24-ounce soda often contains more than 75 grams of sugar.

Maybe you think your body can process this large load of sugar, but everything wears out at some point. If you are constantly stressing your pancreas at some point it may say enough is enough and start to not work so well. Outcome is diabetes and a failed healthy diet plan.

Some symptoms to look for:

Severe hyperglycemia: Blurred vision, extreme thirst, frequent urges to urinate

Hypoglycemia: You feel weak with cold sweats, anxiety, blurred vision, or tiredness a couple hours after a sugar binge. This one is more easier to spot.

If you experience any of these symptoms ask your doctor about conducting an OGTT test, which is more accurate than a fasting blood sugar test. Make the most of your healthy diet plans.