The Sugar Trap

I love this first line in an article from Women's Health :
Alcohol comes with a warning label. Cigarettes are highly taxed. Saturated and trans-saturated fats require special labeling. But we shotgun sugar like its our job.


World wide sugar consumption has tripled in the past 50 years.  SO if you have a relatively healthy 2,000 a day calories diet you are still probably consuming 10 teaspoons of added sugar per day - yikes that is 156 pounds of sugar per year!!!!


Check your packaged food labels - watch out for the words fructose, cane sugar, fruit juice, simple syrup, sucrose and many more.  You find sugar lurking everywhere like condiments (ketchup, mustard), low fat salad dressing, tomato sauce, bread, crackers, cereal, flavoured yogurt and many more.  
Here's a few ideas to beat the addiction:


Read your labels...
       quick rule of thumb - if it has more than 5 g of sugar per serving think twice about buying it!!
Don't sip your sugar - this can help you zap 500 calories a day from your diet).
Think au naturel - curb your sugar cravings with fruit!!
Exercise to combat the cravings.
Use healthy sweeteners in place of sugar like real maple syrup, honey and perhaps Truvia.


When you eat a lot of sugar at once you actual crave more food and end up with no nutritional value for the calories consumed.  Your body stores this excess sugar as FAT.


Sugar is toxic  - just like caffeine, alcohol, and heroin - it is addictive!!!  So let's not gloss it over.....watch out for hidden sugars.  Click here to see the full article  Is Sugar Sneaking into your Healthy Foods?