Sugar reduction can quickly relieve chronic metabolic disorders

No need to lose weight, no exercise, as long as less sugar can become more healthy? A new study by US researchers confirms that this "good thing" can relieve chronic metabolic disorders such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol in adolescents within 10 days simply by reducing sugar intake.

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and Toro University, California, recently published a paper in the American Journal of Obesity, saying that reducing the intake of sugar can reduce high cholesterol without reducing calorie intake and reducing weight. Adolescents with chronic metabolic disorders such as hypertension.

The study targeted 43 volunteers aged 9 to 18 years. The screening criteria was that they had at least one other chronic metabolic disorder besides obesity, such as high blood pressure and high blood triglyceride levels.

Researchers formulated a low-sugar diet for each person for 9 days, reducing the proportion of sugar intake in total calories from 28% to 10%, and reducing the proportion of fructose intake in total calories from 12% to 4%. To maintain the same levels of fat, protein, carbohydrates, and calories in the diet as the testee's original diet, the researchers added starch to the food.

The study found that 9 days after the start of the new recipe, the subjects' average diastolic blood pressure decreased by 5 mmHg, fasting triglyceride levels decreased by 46%, LDL decreased by 12.5%, and fasting insulin levels decreased by 53%. Functional indicators have also been improved.

Robert Restinger, an expert at the Benioff Children’s Hospital of the University of California, San Francisco, who led the study, said: “This study shows that sugar damages the metabolic process.” The expert also believes that the study did not change calories and lose weight. Or exercise, but simply replace the sugar in the food with starch, can alleviate the metabolic disease, indicating that different sources of heat will act on different organs after entering the body.

Lestiger said that the excess calories ingested by sugar are the most harmful. These sugars are converted into fat in the liver, triggering insulin resistance and increasing the risk of diabetes, heart disease and liver disease.

Dr. Jean-Marc Schwartz, the main participant in the study, Dr. Toro University of California, said that the above findings are unusual and significant. “Parents should assess sugar intake and pay attention to the children’s diet on the health” .

Obesity is becoming an epidemic in the United States. It is estimated that the U.S. adolescents' daily sugar intake is two to three times the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's recommended intake standard. Obesity and metabolic disorders increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.