Ready for sweets? Food can be our best friend. But where is your sugar hiding?
The American Heart Association recommends limiting the amount of added sugar you consume. Where is your sugar hiding?
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You need to know where to look and the names of the sugar in your foods.
The SWEET Truth
- Eating too much added sugar is linked to health problems (i.e., cardiovascular disease, diabetes, liver disease, alzheimer’s disease, cancer, obesity, high blood pressure, autoimmune disease, etc.).
- Sugar causes inflammation in your body.
- Average American east 3x more sugar than recommend. That’s 66 pounds of sugar in a year.
- Recommended serving of sugar – Woman (6 tsp), Men (9 tsp), Children (3-6 tsp)
- The is added sugar hiding in 74% of packaged foods; including “healthy” ones like yogurt and energy bars.
- Drinking one 12 oz soda every day for 7 days, you can increase your risk of dying from heart disease by one-third.
All of this to grab your attention. Sugar is sweet, but not for a healthy body.
So where is your sugar hiding?
Sugar Names
- Agave nectar
- Barbados sugar
- Barley malt
- Barley malt syrup
- Beet sugar
- Brown sugar
- Brown rice syrup
- Buttered syrup
- Cane juice
- Cane juice crystals (table sugar)
- Cane sugar
- Caramel
- Carob syrup
- Castor sugar
- Coconut palm sugar
- Coconut sugar
- Confectioner’s sugar
- Corn sweetner
- Corn syrup
- Corn syrup solids
- Date sugar
- Dehydrated cane juice
- Demerara sugar
- Deribose
- Dextrin
- Dextrose
- Evaporated cane juice
- Free flowing brown sugars
- Fructose
- Fruit juice
- Fruit juice concentrate
- Glucose
- Glucose solids
- Galactose
- Golden sugar
- Golden syrup
- Grape sugar
- High fructose corn syrup
- Honey
- Icing sugar
- Invert sugar
- Malt syrup
- Maltodextrin
- Maltol
- Maltose
- Mannose
- Maple syrup
- Molasses
- Muscovado
- Palm sugar
- Panocha
- Powered sugar
- Raw sugar
- Refiner’s syrup
- Rice syrup
- Saccharose
- Sorghum syrup
- Sucrose
- Sugar (granulated)
- Sweet sorghum
- Syrup
- Treacle
- Turbinado sugar
- Yellow sugar
Fructose: It’s fruit sugar. Yes. But when you unwrap fructose from it’s fiber source, it turns toxic in your body.
Agave nectar: It’s 80-90% fructose.
Beet sugar: Good, but still don’t overdue and ingest high amounts.
Cane juice crystals: It’s table sugar.
Coconut sugar: This is a lower glycemic level sugar. Still watch how much you ingest.
Date sugar: It’s the highest glycemic fruit, higher than table sugar.
Brown rice syrup: It has no fructose, but is high glycemic.
Sugar is sweet! But it can reek havoc on your body.
The K.I.S.S. ~ Know what you are eating!
Let go of sugar because:
- addictive
- pro-inflammatory (causes inflammation in the body)
- damages your gut
- causes erratic brain cell firing (per Dr. Daniel Amen at AmenClinics.com)
You may not be able to escape the sugar fad. But use it responsibly.
- Empower yourself.
- Know what you are putting in your body.
- Take care of your body.
- Treat your body well.
“Do you not know that our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore, honor God with your bodies.” ~ 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Better options:
- Stevia
- Erythritol
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