Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The aim of this dissertation is to provide an answer about to what extent does a high sugar diet affect obesity. The goal of answering this question is to find the substitution of sugar and the number of sugar intake that wont increase the risk of obesity. The dissertation will be separated into this part and uses the available literature to identify them. What is obesity and the impact of varying degrees of obesity on health. What is sugar and how sugar contribute to obesity. Comparing the amount of sugar in different substance and the limiting numbers of sugar intake to give advice about how many substances intake wont increase the risk of obesity. Exploring what is sweeteners and the potential hazard of them to determine whether the sweeteners is good substitution or not. Also, the article will find another factor affect obesity and explore the nature of them. Through this part, it is concluded that excess sugar intake increases the risk of obesity by convert glucose into fatty acid and the nature of the other factors that affect obesity is to stimulate people to take in more sugar. Meanwhile, sugar alcohol could be considered as the best sugar substitution and it is suitable for people to consume the amount of added sugar like white sugar which is lower than 36g. For fructose, it is suitable for people to consume lower than 50g.
Author: Zixing Fang
Language: English
Subfield: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4403356436