have your cake and eat it too (or not)

I am working on a science research topic about nutrition. You know what came to my mind when I think nutrition; eating an entire cake.Yep, so I am going to be researching what will happen to your body and what it the nutritional value of three different cakes.

Vanilla birthday cake (yum)

Recipe

2 1/2 cups (325g) all purpose flour
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
3/4 cup (168g) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 1/2 cups (310g) sugar
3 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tbsp vanilla extract
4 large eggs
1 1/4 cups (300ml) milk
VANILLA FROSTING
1 1/2 cups (336g) salted butter
1 1/2 cups (284g) shortening
12 cups (1380g) powdered sugar
1 tbsp vanilla extract
6–7 tbsp (90-105ml) water or milk

Nutritional information ( calories, fat and sugar)

For an average woman that is about a weeks worth of food. Yum?.
It is 11 days worth of fat.
It is also 47 days worth of sugar.


Chocolate cake

1 3/4 cup flour 
1/2 cup cocoa 
2 tsp baking powder 
1 cup Chelsea White Sugar 
125g butter 
2 Tbsp Chelsea Golden Syrup 
2 eggs 
1 1/2 cup milk 
2 tsp baking soda 
1 tsp vanilla essence


Icing:
50g Soft Butter
2Tbsp Water
1Tbsp Cocoa Powder 
1 1/2 cups Chelsea Icing Sugar

This contains:
1.5 days worth of food for an average woman
10 days worth of sugar
2.5 days worth of fat.

Cheese cake

This recipe contains
2.75 days worth of calories
10 days worth of fat
8 days worth of sugar.
So what happens if you eat too much sugar?

The things that eating too much sugar are...
- weight gain ( really obvious)
-increased risk of heart disease
- increase the risk of acne
-increased risk of diabetes
-increased risk of cancer
-ageing process made quicker.

What it does to your brain
-sugar releases a chemical called dopamine. Dopamine is a feel good hormone. Dopamine is released, gives you a good feeling and is highly addictive. That's why we  are constantly craving sugar ( or is it just me, anyone?) . After the high then comes a down feeling. This high and low cycle can lead to depression.

Pancreas

When you eat, your pancreas pumps out insulin. But if you’re eating way too much sugar and your body stops responding properly to insulin, your pancreas starts pumping out even more insulin. Eventually, your overworked pancreas will break down and your blood sugar levels will rise, setting you up for type 2 diabetes and heart disease. (Yay!)

Heart 
When you eat excess sugar, the extra insulin in your bloodstream can affect your arteries, part of your body’s circulatory system. This causes the walls of blood vessels to grow fast and creates complications .



How much sugar does it take to kill you (...)?

for a 180 pound (81 kg) male it would take 5.4 (2.5 kg) pounds of sugar to kill you. That is equal to about 1.5 of the vanilla birthday cakes. (yum?)