Sugar consumption has increased by 19 percent since 1970.
Today, the average American consumes 100 pounds of sugar each year!
Average American consumes about 22 teaspoons of sugar while average children consume a whopping 32 teaspoon of sugar a day.
As per American heart associations- women should not have more than 6 teaspoon (24 gm) and men should not have more than 9 teaspoon (36 gm) of sugar per day.
This recommendation is for a healthy, average weight person.
If you are overweight or have any medical disease then sugar in your diet should be less than recommended.
In an American diet added sugar alone can contribute to additional 300-500 calories a day.
Eating sugar has a systemic effect on your entire body, including increased risk for diabetes, increased appetite, weight gain, heart and liver problems, decreased immune, system, certain cancers and even your brain function to name a few.
Sugar increases physical and mental stress- always remember desserts is stressed spelled backwards!!
Carbonated drinks and sugar sweetened drinks are the largest source of refined sugar in diet.
A 64 oz soda can contain about 53 teaspoon of sugar!
Refined sugar has no nutritional value and is very addictive.
The drug morphine, cocaine and sugar all stimulate the same brain receptors.
Artificial sweeteners are as damaging or in some cases more damaging than refined sugar.
Low fat product can be harmful as most of them contains high amount of sugar.
Many of the processed food has sugar in it even if the food is not sweet. Sugar can be hidden under 56+ different names in ingredients list.
Sugar from fruits is healthy in moderation but not from fruits juices as juice does not have fibers that comes with fruits.