You’ve probably hit your sugar limit for the entire day before lunch. One bowl of sweet cereal, a flavored yogurt and a glass of juice can fill it before 10 a.m., and a single can of soda adds almost ten teaspoons all by itself.
Follow one spoonful of table sugar through your body with the twins Glu (glucose) and Fru (fructose): how much added sugar is too much, where it hides on food labels, what it does to your teeth, how insulin unlocks your cells, and why your brain actually runs on glucose. Then the reward system and the "just one more" feeling, whether sugar really makes kids hyper, why a sugar rush leaves you more tired, how fructose turns into liver fat, why whole fruit is different from juice, what years of sugar spikes do to insulin, diabetes and your heart, and the single easiest swap that cuts the most sugar.
Written and animated by Dembly Explains
Chapters
0:00 Your sugar limit, before lunch
0:32 How much sugar is too much?
1:09 In your mouth
1:30 Glu and Fru split up
1:56 Sugar and your brain
2:50 Fru and your liver
3:23 Years of sugar spikes
3:58 So, should you quit sugar? (and the swap)
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