Health effects of sugar | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-10

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Health effects of sugar


00:02:15 1 Etymology
00:03:12 2 History
00:03:21 2.1 Ancient times and Middle Ages
00:06:49 2.2 Modern history
00:10:23 3 Chemistry
00:12:21 3.1 Natural polymers
00:13:47 3.2 Flammability and heat response
00:14:32 4 Types
00:14:40 4.1 Monosaccharides
00:16:19 4.2 Disaccharides
00:18:04 5 Sources
00:18:36 6 Production
00:18:58 6.1 Sugar beet
00:20:14 6.2 Sugarcane
00:22:21 6.3 Refining
00:24:20 7 Forms and uses
00:27:27 8 Consumption
00:28:03 9 Nutrition and flavor
00:28:49 10 Health effects
00:29:10 10.1 Sugar industry funding and health information
00:30:06 10.2 Obesity and metabolic syndrome
00:30:38 10.3 Addiction
00:30:56 10.4 Hyperactivity
00:31:24 10.5 Tooth decay
00:31:52 10.6 Nutritional displacement
00:32:25 10.7 Alzheimer's disease
00:32:45 11 Recommended dietary intake
00:34:44 12 Measurements
00:36:04 13 Society and culture
00:36:48 14 See also



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Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food. The various types of sugar are derived from different sources. Simple sugars are called monosaccharides and include glucose (also known as dextrose), fructose, and galactose. "Table sugar" or "granulated sugar" refers to sucrose, a disaccharide of glucose and fructose. In the body, sucrose is hydrolysed into fructose and glucose.
Sucrose is used in prepared foods (e.g. cookies and cakes), is sometimes added to commercially available beverages, and may be used by people as a sweetener for foods (e.g. toast and cereal) and beverages (e.g. coffee and tea). Other disaccharides include maltose (from malted grain) and lactose (from milk). Longer chains of sugars are called oligosaccharides or polysaccharides. Some other chemical substances, such as glycerol and sugar alcohols, may have a sweet taste, but are not classified as sugar.
Sugars are found in the tissues of most plants, but are especially concentrated in sugarcane and sugar beet, making them ideal for efficient commercial extraction to make refined sugar. In 2016, the combined world production of those two crops was about two billion tonnes.
The average person consumes about 24 kilograms (53 lb) of sugar each year, or 33.1 kilograms (73 lb) in developed countries, equivalent to over 260 food calories per day. As sugar consumption grew in the latter part of the 20th century, researchers began to examine whether a diet high in sugar, especially refined sugar, was damaging to human health. Excessive consumption of sugar has been implicated in the onset of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, dementia, and tooth decay. Numerous studies have tried to clarify those implications, but with varying results, mainly because of the difficulty of finding populations for use as controls that consume little or no sugar. In 2015, the World Health Organization recommended that adults and children reduce their intake of free sugars to less than 10%, and encouraged a reduction to below 5%, of their total energy intake.