EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW THIS: HOW MUCH NATURAL SUGAR IS GOOD FOR YOU? - Specific sugar recommendations aren’t available for natural sugars which occur in fruits. - Fruits are packed with beneficial vitamins, minerals and fiber. - Your daily consumption of Fruits and Vegetables should be around 33% of your diet. WHAT ABOUT FRUIT SUGAR? - When you consume fruit, you are not only consuming fructose, but also consuming fiber and lots of vitamins and minerals, which are good for your health. - But yes, fruits do have an effect on our blood sugar, as it is sugar. - Generally fruit will cause less of a blood sugar spike compared to nutrient-void table sugar. WHAT ABOUT FRUIT JUICES? - When you consume fruit juices, the juice is squeezed, giving you all of the juice but very little of the fiber or nutrients that get left behind in the process. - For this reason, many fruit juices should probably be called “sugar water”. - If you are going to eat fruit, get it in fruit form, not juice form. WHICH ARE THE FOODS THAT CONTAIN LOT OF SUGAR? - White bread - Pasta (unless whole grain) - White flour - products made with it such as cake, cookies, crackers, doughnuts and muffins. - Potato chips and sugar rich chocolates - Products with added sugar, e.g. jams and jellies - Salad dressings and sauces with added sugar - Fruit drinks containing added sugar - Sugar-sweetened soft drinks WHAT ARE THE BEST THINGS TO EAT WHEN YOU CRAVE SOMETHING SWEET? - If you are going to eat sugar, get it from fruits. - Go for plain yogurt with fruits. - If you cant pass up something with added sugar, make sure it is made with oats or whole grains instead of white flour.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:00:01 +0000
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