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According to the Ministry of Health, about 20% of the population suffer from prediabetes – moreover, 74% of people do not know about the existence of this disease. In fact, we are talking about a violation of insulin sensitivity, a hormone necessary for the absorption of carbohydrates from food.

Avoiding sugar is the first rule of a healthy diet. It’s no secret that eating sweets leads to weight gain and obesity – but is the problem solely in excess calories? How exactly does sugar harm the human body?

A bread unit is a parameter that makes it easier to control the dose of insulin needed in diabetes mellitus. In the presence of this disease, the body requires regular injections of the hormone insulin since it cannot independently process carbohydrates from food.

Would you like to know your chances of staying healthy in the next decade? Measure around your waist (with a soft tape 10 cm above the thighbone, without pulling in the stomach) – a figure above 90 cm for women and 100 cm for men indicates the presence of reserves of abdominal fat.

The reason why it is difficult to give up sweets lies in psychology. Ultimately, sugar is not only a source of fast energy, but it also activates the areas of the brain responsible for pleasure and the production of dopamine – which, ultimately, forms an addiction.