Sugar - Too much of it will kill you

Hello, today I will try to elaborate some bad characteristics of sugar out of human body aspects, to give us wider and deeper perspective about it.  For a typical amount, sugar obviously has its benefit as an energy source to human body.  But in real daily life, it is not easy to calculate the adequate sugar consumption to the body, since the other type and structure of sugar also exist in other kind of meal.  You need a precise calculation from nutrition expert anyway.

The most simple molecular structure of Sugar is called Glucose or monosaccharides (C6H12O6).  Some others are: disaccharides and oligosaccharides.  Mostly all kind of sugars are easily crystallized in room temperature.  Literally, "crystallized" means being as hard as crystal or rock.  So hard that it can scratch iron or steel.  Please remember, under my circumstances as a diabetic type 2 patient, i means a lot to my internal organ, blood vessels, and cardiovascular system as well. Because my insulin fails to change the glucose into energy or fat.

 

Crystal form of sugar is hard and very abrasive

Sugar erodes metals

Once upon a time, i was selling USA brand of industrial pumps and mechanical seals.  You may consider them as the best products in their level and class. One of the usage is to pump a typical liquid form of sugar from 1 point to another process in refinery.  Heater jacket must be installed on the running pump to make sure that required temperature will be stable.  The best mechanical seal of alloy material had been equipped to prevent any leakage.  But every process has its own age, no matter what kind of pump material and type (rotary lobe, centrifugal, screw pump, or vane pump) will always be broken due to the debris remains of crystallized sugar as the time goes by or even by a viscosity change. Once the first shear reduces the vacuum in the pumping chamber (example: using rotary lobe pump), more erosion of the steel/iron/stainless steel will happen very rapidly in view hours, or even minutes in high rpm.  A complete set of pump and its mechanical seal can cost you around US$ 30.000 - 50.000 and just lost in a blink of an eye.  It's kind of funny for me, since the opposite taste of sugar would bring the same damage to pump and mechanical seals, which is Brine water (using centrifugal stainless steel pump).

The debris of crystallized sugar which spread all over the pump shaft and body due to imperfect pumping process or heating, I called it as blood glucose level in my blood stream.  I couldn't imagine how a living tissue that so soft and tender could survive that erosion compared to the very hard metal as the pump shaft.  So that, I agree with most of the blog or web or fan page that, in order to avoid any cardiovascular damage, we have to keep our blood glucose level always in normal range first. The impact of sugar or glucose debris to the blood vessel is very severe.  You will not feel anything hurt, until the collateral damage is done.

Sugar is not bad, it is natural but has to be balanced

Sugar is not bad. It is actually natural. Almost every plant on earth produce glucose through photosynthesis process, and convert it into starch which is the carbohydrate form, or as sucrose (C12H22O11). Starch itself has 2 different forms of glucose polymer, which are cellulose and chemical energy in cells. The other significant role of glucose is as the former of DNA and RNA in human body.   Ribose (C5H10O5), Deoxyribose (C5H10O4), and monosaccharides are glucose forms which build both DNA and RNA.

In summary, I would like to pin point the existence of exceeding glucose level our blood vessel, that will  create a massive damage of our blood vessel, cardiovascular system, and the other internal organs, if happens in long period of time with poor control and inconsistent medication.  Remember: Sugar is very abrasive material.   

        

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