By Dean L. Jones<\/p>\n
Last week the U.S. Government’s Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Agriculture released new dietary guidelines.\u00a0 To my surprise, this report for the first time formally recommends that people limit the amount of processed sugar that they eat to 10% of daily calories.<\/p>\n
The shocker over this report on lessening sugar consumption centers around how long the government data has been showing that roughly 117 million Americans live with one or more preventable, chronic diseases that are related to poor quality eating patterns and physical inactivity.\u00a0 PACE News has embraced this commentary for reducing processed sugar for greater than a decade, subsequently with the federal government’s declaration finally denouncing the dangers of sugar came as somewhat of a revelation.<\/p>\n
Even so, these guidelines are worth reading as they go over a lifetime of healthy eating to help prevent chronic diseases like obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, and Type 2 diabetes.\u00a0 Specifically, healthy eating patterns that limit added processed sugars are reported as vital. \u00a0Less than 10% of a person’s daily calories should come from added sugars and syrups that are added to foods or beverages when they are processed or prepared.<\/p>\n
The information is necessary to know as inexpensive sugary-filled foodstuff shows up quite often on store shelves.\u00a0 For instance, I just saw where a 32-ounce bottle of a sports drink is selling for 99\u00a2.\u00a0 The serving size is 12-ounces with 21-grams of added sugar (5\u00bc teaspoons of sugar).\u00a0 This one 99\u00a2 bottle is normally going to be devoured all at once thereby consuming 63-grams of added sugar, or a total of 15\u00be teaspoons of processed sugar.<\/p>\n
This 99\u00a2 purchase has a considerable amount of potential health damage to the human body, particularly if it is routinely consumed.\u00a0 Although the government is behind on sharing the recommendation to closely monitor sugar intake, the American Heart Association (AHA) gave their formal advice nearly seven years ago.\u00a0 That is that for most American women, the AHA recommends no more than 100 calories per day, or about 6 teaspoons of processed sugar, and for men, it is 150 calories per day, or about 9 teaspoons.<\/p>\n
Without question, it is a huge challenge to avoid eating sugary items since to some extent or another added sugars hide in 74% of processed foods under more than 60 different names.\u00a0 The highest packaged sugary filled items are drink powders, soft drinks, and instant sweetened lemon tea.\u00a0 Followed closely by candies, dried fruit, cookies, cakes & pies, jams, preserves\/spreads, processed cereals, fruit canned in syrup, packaged sauces\/instant gravies, ice cream, frozen yogurt and milk shakes.<\/p>\n
Strangely, with all of the many ways processed sugar has cloaked our large styles of eating that it can now be a harmful ingredient.\u00a0 Nevertheless, the science necessitates how vital it is to live SugarAlert!<\/p>\n