Sneaky Sugar In Our Diet
Posted on April 24, 2008
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Ten teaspoons of sugar should be enough to get you thru your day, but todays diet is packed with much more. That cup of flavored coffee and bran muffin you ate as you drove into work today probably had almost double that much - and that was just one meal. Add in two snacks and to more meals and you can see that we consume way too much sugar.
The World Health Organization, for what its worth, says 20 teaspoons of sugar is plenty. But we go way beyond that. Read the label and look for hidden sugar: Sucrose is essentially the same as table sugar. Lactose is sugar found in milk. Fructose is the natural sugar in fruits. Why do you think that smoothie tastes so good? But here’s the biggie sugar in your diet: HFCS or high fructose corn syrup. Its cheap and its in everything. Cokes, candy, glaze. Remember when coke products were sweetened with beet sugar?
Obesity and Sugar
Currently we are eating three times the fructose we should. Dr. Richard Johnson at the University of Florida (wonder how much sugar (fructose) is in Gatorade?) says that in the 1920’s the obesity rte was just 5 to 7 percent of the U.S. population. Now its 30% and growing. Americans consumed about a third the sugars they no do.
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