Have you ever wondered why sometimes you go to the supermarket to buy white sugar, but you are told that you need to register your identity, and when the state's control of white sugar is so strict? Today we're going to talk about the cold stuff about sugar.
Wartime hard currency
In wartime, sugar is definitely a hard currency, because for carbon-based organisms, sugar is not only a tonic, but also equivalent to a life-saving medicine in special moments, because it also has a name, called carbohydrates, and on the battlefield, it has two wonderful uses:
The first is to counteract hunger and restore physical strength;
Second, because sugar also has the effect of hemostasis and sterilization;
Therefore, in the absence of drugs, sugar will also be used as a simple treatment of wounds, which is the use of the principle of high penetration of sugar, so that bacteria lose water and die, in addition, the shelf life of sugar substances is very long, and easy to carry.
fuel
There is a scene in the movie "Chosin Lake", I believe that most people who have seen it will be in tears, that is, our soldiers, in order to block the enemy, lie motionless in the ice and snow, and finally be frozen into ice sculptures;
In fact, the situation of the US army was also quite bad, because the local temperature suddenly dropped that year, which is also the reason why our soldiers were frozen into ice sculptures, and the US troops on the battlefield were constantly asking for support from their superiors, but this time the supplies they got were a bunch of sugar items;
We all know that the U.S. troops on the Korean battlefield are not short of food, so they will not worry about hunger, and the remaining candy, in addition to being used as food to replenish physical strength, will also be used as an accelerant to resist the cold.
dynamite
One sulfur, two nitrate three charcoal, add some white sugar Ivan, the meaning of this sentence is that seemingly harmless white sugar, in fact, in a specific case, can be made into explosives equivalent to the power of nuclear bombs;
On the previous Battlefield in Syria, there was a bomb master named Sheik Omar, who once mentioned to reporters that the bombs he made, depending on the dose of sugar, could become ordinary grenades or rockets with a range of more than 12 kilometers, which would have the effect of burning explosions when they encountered high temperatures or strong vibrations.
Drugs
Some people for white sugar, always have an inexplicable impulse, according to scientific research, addictive food ranking first, compared to cocaine, sugar addiction is 8 times more, while the probability of death is far more than cocaine, but sugar as a drug, in fact, there are first-mentioned conditions;
Taking candy will make people feel happy because of dopamine secretion. Dopamine is a kind of brain secretion, it can affect the human body's feelings of pleasure for things, such as smoking addiction, alcohol addiction, love and all other exciting things, is controlled by the amount of dopamine in the human body, the more dopamine secretion, the more people are crazy, and it is precisely because of this that people will not be able to suppress and want to eat another piece of candy.
However, due to the consumption of excessive candy, people's sweet taste buds may fail, the inhibitory effect of insulin produced by the pancreas on blood sugar will become weaker and weaker, and the three highs caused by obesity, cancer and malnutrition are all syndromes caused by excessive intake of sugars.
brief summary
Therefore, some developed countries in the West and some parts of our country will have certain restrictions on the use of sugar, in addition to some special roles of sugar, more or for the protection of citizens' physical health, the World Health Organization recommends that whether adults or children, the daily intake of free sugar should not exceed 25 grams.