|
 | From Ellen Friedrichs, your About Teen Life Editor Did you know that not too long ago, added sugar was a luxury? In fact, throughout much of history, most sweet food was only the stuff that came that way naturally. These days, sugar is added to just about everything you can think of from bread to baked beans and even fruit juice. Here's how to identify added sugar, why you might want to cut back on your sugar consumption and ideas for how to do so. | |
Finding and Avoiding Added Sugars
Added sugars are used to enhance the flavors of sweet snacks, beverages, and other processed foods, although not all of these foods actually taste sweet. It doesn't include foods that contain sugar naturally like fruits and some vegetables, but it does include the table sugar you sprinkle on your cereal or in your coffee...Read more
| Is White Sugar Better Than High Fructose Corn Syrup?
High fructose corn syrup and white sugar are about the same nutritionally speaking. Both are bad for your health when consumed in excessive amounts, and neither type of sweetener has any nutritive value beyond calories. Eating too much of either one can result in gaining extra weight as fat if you regularly consume more calories than you burn with daily physical activity. Too much sugar or high fructose corn syrup will also have a negative effect on the body by increasing the levels of blood lipids like triglycerides... Read more
| The Added Sugar Quiz
Sugar is just sugar right? What's more to know? Well actually quite a bit. So take this added sugar quiz and see if you can tell the difference between fructose, glucose and sucrose and beyond... Read more
| How to Cut Down on Sugar
There's no doubt about it: people, in general, are eating too much sugar - and yet we seem to be hooked on it (perhaps literally). Sugar in one of its many forms is added to almost every processed food - it's hard to find even a cracker or soup without sugar, let alone cereal, BBQ sauce, and canned fruit... Read more
| |
| | Teen Life Ads
| | | | Featured Articles | |
| | | More from About.com | | | | | | Financial Emergencies
An unexpected change in your financial situation can be incredibly stressful. Here's how to cope. More>
| | | | Retirement Planning
Learn the top five things you need to do in order to start building a retirement nest egg. More>
|
| | | | Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics | | | | You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Teen Life newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here.
About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy
Contact Information:
249 West 17th Street
New York, NY, 10011
© 2012 About.com | | | | | |
Advertisement
 | |
0 comments:
Post a Comment