The consumption of sugar and sweetened drinks leads to a higher risk of obesity and diabetes
and has recently also been linked to cardiovascular problems. On the one hand, this is due to the high calorie content of sucrose. However, according to current research, the types of sugar fructose and glucose are also harmful to the metabolism. Glucose releases the hormone GIP, short for glucose-induced insulinotropic peptide, in cells of the upper small intestine. "It causes, among other things, the development of fatty liver and insulin resistance," explained Andreas Pfeiffer, scientist at the German Institute for Human Nutrition, in May 2018 at the Diabetes Congress. GIP also acts on the brain, where it increases the release of appetite-stimulating hormones. Fructose, in turn, stimulates the formation of fat in the liver. A fatty liver not only increases the risk of inflammation of the detoxification organ, but also affects the metabolism unfavorably - diabetes and heart disease can be the result.
