Where is the Most Sources of Sugar Consumption?

Excessive sugar consumption experienced by almost everyone, whereas excessive sugar consumption can cause an awful diabetes disease. What food and beverage sources that contain the most sugar?

Excess sugar in the body will increase the release of calcium through the urine, causing dental caries and some diseases and severe complications such as diabetes and heart disease.

High sugar levels in the body will stimulate the release of the hormone insulin. Frequently consume sugar makes people become frequent urination and consequently minerals that enter the body can go wasted.

According to the study published in 2009, as quoted from MensHealth.com Circulation, the maximum safe sugar consumption does not exceed 150 calories per day.
The Journal of the American Medical Association found that high sugar intake will reduce levels of good cholesterol and increase triglycerides (fats in the blood). Whereas the number levels of triglycerides should be below 200 mg / dl.

Many foods that contain high sugar levels can also reduce the immune system. If someone is eating sugar as much as 100 grams, it can reduce the ability of white blood cells to kill the bad bacteria or viruses in the body by 40 percent. The immune system will begin to decrease 30 minutes after food is consumed and will continue to be reduced by over 5 hours.

When white blood cells exposed to high levels of sugar in the bloodstream, then the ability of these cells to destroy bacteria decreases and weakens the defence system against all infectious.

What food and beverage sources that contain the most sugar?

1. Soft drinks and other sweet drinks, sugar contributes to the body 45.7%
2. Sugar and candy, 13.6% contribution
3. Cakes, cookies, pies, contributing 11.6%
4. Fruit juices, contribute 8%
5. Desserts made of milk and milk products, contributing 7.4%
6. Grains and cereals, contributed 8.5%
7. Another source, contributing 5.2%

Eat sugar normally so that the immune system can work with up to protect the body.

Great tips for superlong flights

Most people don't look forward to really long flights, I mean there's only so much Sudoku you can do until you're sick of it right? Recently, reader onlysourcherry asked the SavvySugar Community what she should do on a 14-hour flight. She can first start by checking out our 10 trinkets for travelers, which will definitely come in handy! Readers rallied and gave a ton of really great suggestions that will keep her well occupied on her air travel. Check out these gems from suzieleung, jelibeann, and mydiadem!

• Ignore Time:
"Don't think about the time. Seriously. Just take the time on the flight for what it is, and chill out."

• Neighborly Chat:
"Talk to the person sitting next to you. Chatting really kills time."

• Movies:
"Portable DVD players are awesome! Stack up on DVDs. Or, bring your laptop and watch movies. Be sure to bring and extra battery pack."

• Get Comfy:
"Make sure you're as comfy as possible — slippers, a travel pillow, a blanket — [you] might as well settle in."

For more boredom-fighters for long, long flights, read on!

• Do Work:
"Do work. If you're like me, you probably have some emails to catch up on, or backlog projects that you wish you could get to. Plane time is really great to get stuff done."

• Write:
"Do some journaling. Just be sure to get one of those privacy screens."

• Funny biographies:
"I always find myself reading a ridiculously funny biography when flying and awkwardly laughing out loud, but it really passes the time. Chelsea handler's got me through a flight from London to New York."

• Listen to books:
"I also read a lot, and sometimes if I'm too tired to actually read I'll listen to books on my iPod." (www.savvysugar.com)

Rich Men Have Long Index Fingers

There's a 30 Rock episode where Tracy Jordan tries to get in touch with the common man, so he befriends a janitor, saying "I like you. Can I feel the rough skin on your hands?"

Judging economic status by hand smoothness is good enough for Tracy Jordan and Charles Dickens novels but not science. Nope, science got scientific and found rich guys have index fingers that are longer than their ring fingers.To be fair to the researchers, the connection between finger length and money is a byproduct of a larger study. Large amounts of testosterone in the womb affects finger length, and large amounts of testosterone in life make men alpha — wealth and success inevitably follow. But is anyone taking this seriously?

Yes. The longer the index finger, Fiona Macrae writes in the Daily Mail, "the greater the chance that he is a go-getter who doesn't take no for an answer, whether it is sealing a financial deal or trying to win a girl's heart."

Yes, because that's what all women want: men who don't take no for an answer. (www.tressugar.com)

Fish Oil Ingredient Doesn’t Slow Alzheimer’s

TUESDAY, November 2 (Health.com) — An essential nutrient found in fish oil does not appear to slow the mental decline associated with Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The study is merely the latest to cast doubt on the mental benefits of the omega-3 fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), which until recently was considered a promising way to minimize the risk and damage of dementia. (The other main ingredient found in fish oil, eicosapentaenoic acid, or EPA, is not believed to play a significant role in brain health.)

DHA or fish-oil supplements aren’t likely to cause any harm to Alzheimer’s patients, but they aren’t likely to do any good either, says Steven H. Ferris, PhD, the director of the Aging and Dementia Research Center at New York University.
Fish oil “seems to be healthy in general, and maybe for other things it’s helpful, but it doesn’t benefit cognitive function in a person with Alzheimer’s,” says Ferris, who was not involved in the study.

Research on DHA has been inconclusive and sometimes conflicting. Several studies that followed large groups of people as they aged have suggested that a diet rich in fish is linked to a reduced risk of dementia and mental decline, but most randomized controlled trials comparing DHA supplements with placebo have found no benefit.

“It’s not the first time something in large epidemiological datasets just didn’t work out clinically,” Ferris says, noting that statin medications, anti-inflammatory drugs, and estrogen therapy have all failed to live up to their initial promise in preventing or treating Alzheimer’s. “Unfortunately, that seems to be the situation here.”

The study was funded by the National Institute on Aging and was led by Joseph F. Quinn, MD, a neurologist at the Oregon Health and Science University, in Portland.
Dr. Quinn and his colleagues randomly assigned about 400 women and men in their mid-70s with likely Alzheimer’s disease—the disease is very difficult to accurately diagnose—to take 2 grams of DHA or placebo capsules per day. After 18 months, the average mental decline in the DHA and placebo groups was nearly identical, as measured on two separate tests and rating scales.

Despite the disappointing results, the study doesn’t entirely rule out the possibility that DHA may have some benefit if taken earlier in life. A growing body of research suggests that dementia begins decades before any noticeable symptoms surface, and it’s possible that DHA helps prevent or slow those harmful changes.
Treatments such as DHA may be too little too late for people who are already showing signs of Alzheimer’s, according to Kristine Yaffe, MD, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco.

“Effective treatment strategies to prevent progression of [Alzheimer's disease] will likely need to be initiated earlier,” Dr. Yaffe writes in an editorial accompanying the study. (www.health.com)