The bulky number of research claiming about the dangers of sugar consumption is alarming. Something is going terribly wrong with people's nutritional standards. The exaggerated consumption of sugar has surprisingly globally increased over the past few decades thanks to social development and industrialization processes within many societies. The high rates of obesity, heart diseases, and diabetes are just a few of many healthy disturbances linked to sugar overload in people's bloodstream. What was already seen as an essential nutrient in the past nowadays represents people's number one enemy. Easily pinpointed as the guilty of the worst of humanity's excesses, sugar became bad as cocaine. According to scientists, physicists, and nutritionists worldwide, it is dangerous, powerful, and kills.
By definition, sugar is not a drug, but its addictive properties give it such a contour. Sugar is a carbohydrate whose main function is to give the energy to support the body's demands and can be ingested my many forms. Its absorption in the organism is strictly necessary to the living cells, necessary to preserve the organs' lives and promote vitality to the body to perform all its functions effectively. It is a rapid font of energy, especially for the brain, and can also be provided by the organism in special situations as a subproduct of its reserves, as glycogen, for instance. But here we are talking about the ingestion of sugar, and we can assume that without the basic intake requirements of sugar, we will die.
Ultimately it is the imbalance of its intake that makes sugar looks so bad. The amount of sugar is what condemns this substance and not its function as an important nutrient. It is the excess of sugar or any other substance needed by the body that makes us to compare them as a potentially harmful drug, not its nature. Therefore, it is important to stress that this noble substance's reputation is also due to its great capacity to offer a set of outstanding sensations like happiness and excitement. It means, as much we eat sugar, the more we crave it. The thing is that people easily get used to generous quantities, and the systematic ingestion of increasing quantities consistently activates the neuron connections that make them feel extremely good. The more we seek this rewarding feeling of comfort, the more we think about eating sweeties to keep such pleasure. In this sense, yes, we can relate sugar to any other drug that causes compulsion, dependence and lead people to face the risks of many undesirable consequences.
This is a perfectly nuanced perspective. While acknowledging that sugar is TECHNICALLY not a drug based on the text definition, you highlight some of the ways that sugar can be treated like a drug to produce positive change. Nice work!
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