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Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Healthy Alternatives To Sugar
Who doesn’t love sweets? Everyone craves a little treat every once in a while. But some Americans have become overly obsessed with sugar. According to Forbes, some scientific studies even show that foods high in sugar an be as addicting as heroin and cocaine.
With all the confusion and controversy over what sugars are “good” and what sugar are “bad,” it’s no wonder making the healthiest choice for you and your family is a challenge. That’s why we’ve broken it down for you to make sure you can shamelessly enjoy that sugar fix.
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3 Day Detox Plan To Kick Your Sugar Addiction
It’s no secret that most people consume way too much sugar on a daily basis. I mean think about it – The (probably several) sweet cups of coffee that you drink every morning. The chocolate cake or donut you have around three o clock in the afternoon to get you through to dinner, the dessert you have after dinner, and the ice cream you get a craving for are all absolutely jam packed with the stuff (and I’m probably not even listing the half of it, not to mention the amount of it we consume on an exceptionally stressful day). And you can bet your bottom dollar that anything labelled low fat should just read replaced by sugar. Men should be getting no more than roughly 70g of sugar per day, women 50; most people exceed that before lunchtime. In fact, the average American consumes about 31 pounds of sugar a year.
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11 Weird Things Sugar Is Doing to Your Body
Is sugar toxic? It is when you consider the levels the average American swallows each year—a whopping 130 pounds of added sugars ingested annually. That's about 22 teaspoons a day, way over the max set by the American Heart Association in 2009. New science shows that this overload of sugar—often stemming from hard-to-detect hidden added sugars—is affecting your body in all sorts of strange ways.
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Thursday, February 26, 2015
14 Ways To Eat Less Sugar In 2015
The average American eats about 82 grams of added sugar a day, according to the Centers for Disease Control. That’s more than three times the amount that experts suggest for women and children, and more than twice what they recommend for men. We’re talking roughly 19.5 teaspoons of sugar, when you shouldn’t be eating more than about six to nine teaspoons.
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