Added Sugar Effects

Added Sugar!

How Much?

By Brian Drum

Poll

Which is your favorite type of drink?

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• The AHA suggests an added-sugar limit of no more than 100 calories per day (about 6 teaspoons or 24 grams of sugar) for most women

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• no more than 150 calories per day (about 9 teaspoons or 36 grams of sugar) for most men.

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• There’s no nutritional need or benefit that comes from eating added sugar.

Open Ended

What are some foods/drinks you add your own sugar to?

Sugar-Sweetened Beverages ​

​Not a good source of calories

​Soft drinks are a prime source of extra calories that can contribute to weight gain and provide no nutritional benefits.  

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Liquid carbohydrates such as sugar-sweetened beverages as are less filling than the solid forms causing people to continue to feel hungry after consumption.

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Their contributions to the development of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and other chronic conditions are a worldwide problem.

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Cereals and other foods

​Choosing whole, unprocessed breakfast foods that don’t have lengthy ingredient lists is one way to avoid eating added sugars.

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Unfortunately, many common breakfast foods such as ready-to-eat breakfast cereals, cereal bars, instant oatmeal with added flavoring, and pastries can contain high amounts of added sugars.

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• So don’t be fooled – your body metabolizes all added sugars the same way; it doesn’t distinguish between “brown sugar” and “honey.” When reading a label, make sure you spot all sources of added sugars even if they’re not listed as the first few ingredients.

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How to spot added sugar on food labels

​Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight where sugar is listed in relation to other ingredients can indicate how much sugar a particular food contains.

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• Added sugars go by many different names, yet they are all a source of extra calories.

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Food makers can also use sweeteners that aren’t technically sugar—a term which is applied only to table sugar, or sucrose—but these other sweeteners are in fact forms of added sugar.

Poll

How do you check for added sugar in your food?

• Read the ingredients list

• Look at the amount of sugar

• Never really check

• Stay away from all processed foods

Open Ended

What have you learned from the this lesson on sugar? Is there anything you could change to help your added sugar intake?

​https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/carbohydrates/added-sugar-in-the-diet/

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