Sugar is sweet and it’s everywhere in our daily life. Food and beverages would not taste as good when it’s not using sugar in it. Cakes and biscuits are very identical with the sweetness of sugar, coffee and tea would taste better with sugar. But too much sugar in your life would trigger deceases to your body.

One of the deceases that’s identical with sugar is Diabetes Mellitus and if not controlled would lead to complications like glaucoma, one of the cause of blindness.

Glaucoma is a decease which causes an increase of pressure within our eyeballs that would lead to damaging our optical nerve and degrading our vision and slowly would cause blindness.

The deceased usually doesn’t notice it in the early stages and would only notice it in the late stages which will be hard to cure. Controlling our diet and sugar consumption would be the best way to prevent us from this decease.

Sugar as Sweetener

Sugar that gives the sweet taste in any kind of food and drinks belongs to the carbohydrate group, especially mono and disaccharide group. The sugar which we use every day is mostly composed of sucrose, some part of Asia sometimes use palm sugar made from coconut sugar. Sucrose can also be found in vegetables, fruits, and honey. Other than sucrose there are glucose, fructose, lactose, maltose and many more.

Small amount of glucose can be found within vegetables, fruits, corn syrup and honey. The sweetness is only half of fructose and almost the same of sucrose. Fructose as a sweetener has the highest level of sweetness. Because it’s the sweetest kind of sugar, smaller amounts of fructose sugar would reach the same level of sweetness from other sugar like glucose and sucrose.

Every type of carbohydrate would be synthesized to glucose in our body. Glucose is the source of energy in our body metabolism process.

Excessive Sugar Consumption

The sugar we consumed would then be transformed to energy through metabolism; the energy that had been generated will be the fuel of all cellular activities, if the energy is too much Insulin will start its work to decrease the blood’s sugar level.

The Insulin will make the body oxidize more glucose, speed up glycogenesis (a process which alter glucose to glycogen) and lipogenesis (altering glucose to fat). The mechanism would then be done in the liver and then transferred to fat cells. The continuous process of generating fat cells would then lead to obesity.

People who have Diabetes Mellitus produce less Insulin or even none at all. Too much sugar or carbohydrate source consumption would cause a high rise of sugar in the deceased blood because the body failed to stabilize the sugar level in the blood as the result of lacking Insulin hormone in the body.

Normal person would have 60-80 mg/dl of sugar blood when fasting and 120-160 mg/dl after having a meal. A person who has Diabetes would have higher numbers in their sugar blood level.

Diabetes symptoms are polyuria (increase of urine), polydipsia (excessive thirst), increased fatigue, unusual weight loss, polyfagia (extreme hunger), and hyperglycemia (rise in blood sugar level), other symptoms are like irritability and blurry vision.

Diabetes Mellitus

Years of complication would damage the blood vessel walls, the damage would lead to the leaking of liquid and blood from these blood vessels. The leaking then triggers tissues swelling. If not handled quickly the deceased would suffer swelling in every part of the body. Glaucoma is the result of eye swelling caused by the leaking of the blood vessels around the eye.

Diabetes Mellitus is incurable but can be controlled. Some drugs could help those who are deceased, and could give the body an external source of Insulin. The best method of controlling it would be the right diet. The basic principal is to reduce consumption of carbohydrate so the body would not need to process the excess carbohydrate and so the body will not try to balance the sugar blood level. Consume less sugar and choose rich-fiber carbohydrate diet.