How much sugar do you consume in a day?

Would you eat 16 teaspoon of sugar in a day?

Yet, this is the amount of sugar contained in many sodas. If we add to it the amount hidden in your breakfast yogurt, fruit snack, bread, pasta, soups, ham, sausage, hamburgers, ketchup, mustard of lunch and dinner, it becomes clear of the excessive amount sugar we eat every day.

"Good" sugars and added sugars

No demonization: sugars, if taken from natural sources, such as fruits and vegetables, are important for some basic functions of our body.

However, when we add the assumption of sugar derived  by products prepared industrially plus the one we use in our daily culinary preparaions, the amount becomes excessive, becoming a terrible enemy of our health.

Glycemia

Numerous studies show that the consumption of simple sugars cause, in a very short time, a rise of the blood glucose. The body in response will increase the production of insulin to prevent the sugars from achieving levels of toxicity: it causes a sudden lowering of blood sugar, but consequently, the production of a reserve complex sugar, glycogen, and fat.

Why reduce sugar?

This explains why a rich sugar diet, can lead to obesity and be extremely dangerous for people suffering from diabetes due to the difficulty in using the glucose at the cellular level.

Our expert advice?  Let's avoid adding sugar of our own, let's read the labels to avoid the excesses and ... we are halfway there!