{"id":1108,"date":"2025-10-05T21:31:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T18:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/what-is-sugar\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:11:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T06:41:47","slug":"what-is-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/en\/what-is-sugar\/","title":{"rendered":"What is sugar ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The white crystalline substance we know as sugar is a processed material obtained from sugarcane or sugar beet. The sugar present in sugarcane and sugar beet is converted into pure sucrose in the factory after the separation of all salts, vitamins, proteins, enzymes, and other beneficial nutrients. Sugar weakens the body’s immune system against all diseases. After each consumption of products containing sugar, the body’s white blood cells become dysfunctional, and for 2 to 5 hours, the body is completely susceptible to infection by any virus or bacteria. Sugar is a substance devoid of vitamins, minerals, and fiber, which humans cannot digest or absorb. To break down the molecular structure of sugar, the body must use soluble minerals such as calcium and magnesium. Therefore, the more sugary products one consumes, the more calcium is leached from the bones, eventually leading to osteoporosis after several years. As a result, the balance of mineral elements such as calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, etc., is disrupted. Sugar also reduces the body’s levels of chromium and copper and interferes with the absorption of calcium and magnesium. Furthermore, it increases blood triglyceride and cholesterol levels. Additionally, it damages the kidneys and is a primary cause of kidney stones. It is a major cause of cancer, including breast, prostate, colon, and rectal cancers. It weakens eyesight, narrows blood vessels, ultimately leads to stroke, and increases the risk of heart disease. Sugar plays a major role in tooth decay by causing cavities, gum bleeding, destruction of bone strength, and tooth loss. Arthritis and asthma are among other harms of sugar. Moreover, Alzheimer’s disease, which begins with minor lapses in attention, is caused by sugar consumption. This means that within the next 25 years, half of the middle-aged population on Earth will have Alzheimer’s. Therefore, continuous and long-term consumption of sugar leads to obesity and diabetes, followed by other problems. Currently, obesity is considered one of the leading causes of preventable death worldwide. Genetic factors predispose a person to obesity, but genetic factors alone cannot explain the epidemic of this disease; thus, it is the diet that determines whether an individual will become obese in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to results obtained by the World Health Organization, more than 30% of the inhabitants of the Middle East are overweight. In Iran, the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents is 8.8% and 4.5%, respectively, while in the United States, it is 22% and 30%. This trend has been accompanied by significant growth in recent years, such that the obesity rate in the new generation has more than doubled, which is a strong reason for the necessity of obesity prevention.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The white crystalline substance we know as sugar is a processed material obtained from sugarcane or sugar beet. The sugar present in sugarcane and sugar beet is converted into pure sucrose in the factory after the separation of all salts, vitamins, proteins, enzymes, and other beneficial nutrients. Sugar weakens the body’s immune system against all...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1110,"href":"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/1110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shirinsalamat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}