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GUIDE TO SUGAR Sugar may be tasty, but as we know too much of a good thing can lead to negative consequences. Consistently eating too much sugar (in all its forms) over the course of years can contribute to excess weight gain, elevated triglycerides, increased risk of cancer, and type 2 diabetes. How Much Sugar Can I Eat? The American Heart Association recommends that women limit their consumption of added sugars to no more than 6 teaspoons or 100 calories per day and for men, no more than 9 teaspoons or 150 calories per day. Note that their recommendation targets added - not natural sugars. Natural sugars are those that are found naturally in a food. For example, fruit naturally contains quite a bit of sugar in the form of fructose. On the other hand, added sugar is sugar or sweetener added to foods when cooking, baking, or processing. The food label does list "sugars", however this includes both added and natural sugars. If you are curious how many total calories from sugar the food has, you just multiply the grams of sugar in the food by 4. (1 gram of sugar = 4 calories.) Another way to monitor sugar intake is to convert grams of sugar to teaspoons as 4 grams of sugar is one teaspoon. Sugar By All It’s Different Names: Natural and Processed Sugars: Artificial (Non-Nutritive) Sugars: • Agave nectar • Aspartame • Beet sugar (Nutrasweet and Equal) • Brown rice syrup • Acesulfame-K (Sweet One) • Brown sugar • Mannitol • Cane sugar • Neotame • Corn syrup • Saccharine (Sweet'N'Low) • Corn syrup solids • Sorbitol • Dextrin • Stevia • Dextrose (Truvia and PureVia) • Evaporated cane juice • Sucralose (Splenda) • Fructose • Glucose • High-Fructose corn syrup Are Maple Syrup and Honey • Honey Healthy? • Invert sugar • Lactose Unfortunately, just like table • Maltodextrin sugar, maple syrup and honey • Malt syrup when used in excess can • Maltose contribute to weight gain. If you • Maple syrup want to use a natural form of • Molasses sugar in foods, these are a good • Palm sugar option. Plus, they do offer a tiny • Rice syrup amount of additional nutrients • Saccharose like B6, vitamin C, iron, or zinc - • Sorghum syrup but not enough to really redeem • Turbinado sugar to negative effects of too much sugar. .

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