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This Is Your Body on Cake
When it comes to celebrating, nothing completes the occasion like a rich, perfectly sweet slice of cake. Each bite tastes great going down, but the effects it has on our insides are far less appetizing. 

1. Energy Spike and Crash
We digest cake almost immediately because it’s composed primarily of  simple sugars  that require little breakdown. Consuming a bunch of them causes a huge rush of glucose (what sugar is broken down to) into the blood, and the pancreas releases extra insulin to turn the glucose into glycogen, which the liver and muscles use up. 
After the sugar rush, blood sugar levels drop dramatically, triggering the release of stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol to activate stored sugar supplies. Stress hormones raise our heart rate, make our stomachs clench in anticipation of an attack, and leave us shaky and nauseated once our bodies realize there’s no danger to respond to. 

2. Lowered Immunity
The amount of sugar in a couple of twelve-ounce sodas might be enough to increase disease susceptibility. That’s according to a study published in the  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition , in which researchers found that people’s white blood cell counts were reduced for up to five hours after they ate one hundred grams of sugar. 

3. Fat Conversion
If there’s any glycogen left over after your liver and muscles become full -- and chances are, there will be, unless you were physically active before eating the cake and your raised metabolism can burn through all that sugar -- that extra glycogen gets converted into fat. People mistakenly believe that eating fat-free foods prevents weight gain, but since they’re usually supplemented by extra sugar, those foods can be just as fattening. 

4. Impaired Cardiovascular Function
A 2007 study conducted at the University of Calgary and published in the  American Society for Nutrition  found that eating just one high-fat meal increased blood pressure and made participants’ hearts work harder. 

5. Memory Loss
People with Type 2 diabetes must be especially careful when eating cake because of all the sugar, but one study indicates that the butter and oil in the cake might be problematic, too. At the Baycare Centre for Geriatric Care in 2008, researchers tested the memory recall of volunteers with this disease after feeding them fat-filled meals, low-fat meals, or water. Those who ate the heavier meals showed more memory loss afterward than everyone else.