Natural vs Added Sugars

There is a  BIG DIFFERENCE  between added sugars and natural sugars.  Natural sugars are in foods that also contain water, fiber and micro-nutrients, think fruits and vegetables. Added sugars are in candy, many processed foods, soft drinks, baked goods.  

All forms of sugar are simple carbohydrates. Your body converts simple carbs into glucose for  energy. But the type of sugar you're eating - natural or refined - has an effect on your body and your overall health.

Natural sugar found in fruit, veggies and milk provide essential vitamins, minerals, and nutrients that help prevent disease and keep you healthy.

Refined, or added sugar, is from sugar beets or sugar cane. There are also chemically produced sugars, high fructose corn syrup that are added to sweeten cereal, desserts, and low-fat foods are some of the worst offenders as it is used to add flavor missing when fat is removed.

Fiber in fruit expands in your gut to make you feel full and slows down the metabolism of sugar in fruit. Your body digests refined sugar quickly causing blood sugar and insulin to spike and you usually won't feel full no matter how many calories you consume of added sugars.

How much sugar is in your blood also determines how your body uses the sugar. Regardless of the source, too much can be stored as glycogen for quick energy or as fat.

So, how much sugar is too much?

There's no simple answer, but the American Heart Association says the maximum amount of added sugars you should eat in a day are:

• Women: 100 calories per day (25 grams or 6 teaspoons)
• Men: 150 calories per day (37.5 grams or 9 teaspoons)
• Children: 48 calories per day (12 grams or 3 teaspoons)

So how much added sugar is that?

Here are some surprising foods with tons of added sugar (1 teaspoon = 16 calories)

1. Low Fat Yogurt = 7.25 tsp / 29 gr in 8 oz cup FAGE Honey 
2. Flavored Coffee Drinks = 9 tsp / 36 gr in a 16 oz nonfat mocha drink
3. Low-Fat Salad Dressing = 1/2 tsp in 2 Tbsp serving in low-fat Italian (high fat dressings help you absorb antioxidants from leafy greens. (Avoid canola oil! Look for olive oil.)
4. Vitamin Water = 8 tsp / 32 gr in 20 oz (50% less than regular Coke) sweetened with crystalline fructose (almost pure fructose) and sucrose (half glucose and half fructose)
5. Sports Drinks
6. Protein Bars = 3.5 tsp / 14 gr PowerBar's Vanilla Coconut  has almost as much sugar as a Krispy Kreme doughnut at 12.6 gr 
7. Chocolate Milk = between 8-12 tsp / 32-48 gr in 1 cup
8. Ketchup = 1/2 tsp in 2 tablespoon serving
9. Low-Fat Peanut Butter = contains sugar and high-fructose corn syrup and healthy monounsaturated fat may have been replaced with vegetable oil but the calorie content is the same as natural peanut butter
10. Coke = 9.3 tsp in one 12 oz can (made with high fructose corn syrup) 
11. Mountain Dew = 11.5 tsp / 46 gr in regular and 19.5 tsp / 77 gr sugar and 121 mg caffeine in 20 oz Mountain Dew Game Fuel ( 163 mg caffeine in 8 oz coffee)
12. Snickers = 6.75 tsp / 27 gr in regular size bar but it has healthy nuts!

​So how do you conquer the sugar and fat in your diet?

During the holidays or anytime you want to make sure you digest...

• those second helpings
• yummy desserts
• baked goods
• sugar in wine & cocktails
• pizza
• candy
• sugar in energy drinks, sodas
• starches

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