Next Time You Cut Yourself While Cooking, Here’s Why Doctors Say You Should Pour Sugar On The Wound

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But your sugar-related energy doesn’t burn out in a flash. Although you do get an instant boost from ingesting the sweet stuff, your body will also engage in glycogenesis. This is an action which links glucose molecules into a long strand called a glycogen chain. Your body stores these sugary strips until it needs more energy.

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