Is there anything wrong with not eating sugar? From morning tea to sweets. Sugar adds sweetness not only to our food, but also to our lives. Without this sugar, we would not be able to eat foods like sweets, chocolate, cakes or soft drinks. But where did this sugar come from and how did it reach our kitchen? Sugar and then brown sugar were first made in India from sugarcane juice. Historical books and various reports from India and abroad provide evidence of this. According to a research report titled ‘A History of Sugar: The Food Nobody Needs, But Everyone Craves’ published by the British media outlet network ‘The Conversation’, sugar was made in India around 2,500 years ago, i.e. 500 BC. From here, the technology to make it spread eastwards to China and reached the Middle East via Iran. In the first century, the historian Pliny the Elder, who wrote the encyclopedia ‘Naturalis Historia’, said that Indian sugar was better than sugar made in Arabia. It is said that sugar first reac...
What is the treatment for knee pain? The knee joint is one of the largest and most complex joints in the human body. It plays a key role in activities such as supporting body weight, daily walking, running and jumping. But with age, due to wrong exercise methods, injuries or diseases, knee pain has become a problem for many people. Arthritis of the knee joint is a type of inflammatory disease in the joints and surrounding tissues of the human body, the disease process of which progresses slowly and usually appears after middle age. Its clinical symptoms include joint redness, swelling, warmth, pain, impaired mobility, and joint deformity. At the beginning of the disease, the problem appears in the cartilage of the joint and then it spreads to the bone below the cartilage, the nerve membrane and other tissues around the joint. The main feature is the erosion of the cartilage on the surface and edges of the joint and the formation of new bone. The origin process of this disease is c...