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Placing
a Cap on Americans’ Consumption of Added Sugar By RONI CARYN
RABIN, NEW YORK TIMES, NOVEMBER 9, 2015 Health experts have been nudging Americans to kick the sugar habit for years, and now it’s official: The Food and Drug Administration is recommending a daily cap on sugar for the first time. The goal is for Americans to limit added sugar to no more than 10 percent of daily calories, according to the proposed guidelines. For someone older than 3, that means eating no more than 12.5 teaspoons, or 50 grams, of it a day. That’s about the same amount of sugar found in a can of Coke, but for most people, giving up sugary soft drinks will not be enough to meet the recommendations. Caloric sweeteners like sugar, honey and high-fructose corn syrup are found in obvious places like sodas, cookies and candy — but they are also lurking in foods with health appeal, like low-fat yogurt, granola and wholegrain breads, as well as in ketchup, pasta sauce, canned fruit and prepared soups, salad dressings and marinades. (Click for the complete article) |
Cutting
Sugar Improves Children’s Health in Just 10 Days By ANAHAD
O'CONNOR, NEW YORK TIMES, OCTOBER
27, 2015 Obese
children who cut back on their sugar intake see improvements in
their blood pressure, cholesterol readings and other markers of
health after just 10 days, a rigorous new study found.
The new research may help shed light on a question scientists
have long debated: Is sugar itself harming health, or is the
weight gain that comes from consuming sugary drinks and foods
mainly what contributes to illness over the long term? In
the new
study, which was financed by the National Institutes of
Health and published Tuesday in the journal Obesity, scientists
designed a clinical experiment to attempt to answer this
question. They removed foods with added sugar from a group of
children’s diets and replaced them with other types of
carbohydrates so that the subjects’ weight and overall calorie
intake remained roughly the same. (Click
for the complete article) |
Daily sugar-sweetened beverage habit linked to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease The researchers analyzed 2,634 self-reported dietary questionnaires from mostly Caucasian middle-aged men and women enrolled in the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Framingham Heart Study’s Offspring and Third Generation cohorts. The sugar-sweetened beverages on the questionnaires included caffeinated- and caffeine-free colas, other carbonated beverages with sugar, fruit punches, lemonade or other non-carbonated fruit drinks. The
participants underwent a computed tomography (CT) scan to
measure the amount of fat in the liver and the authors of the
current study used a previously defined cut-point to identify
NAFLD. They saw a higher prevalence of NAFLD among people who
reported drinking more than one sugar-sweetened beverage per day
compared to people who said they drank no sugar-sweetened
beverages. (Click
for the complete article) |
Sugar
and carbs, not physical inactivity, behind surge in obesity, say
experts 22-Apr-2015, British
Journal of Sports Medicine Excess
sugar and carbs, not physical inactivity, are behind the surge
in obesity, say experts in an editorial in the British Journal
of Sports Medicine published online today. It's time to bust the
myth that anyone--and that includes athletes--can outrun a bad
diet, they say. Regular exercise is key to staving off serious disease, such as diabetes, heart disease, and dementia, write the authors, but our calorie laden diets now generate more ill health than physical inactivity, alcohol, and smoking combined. |
Sugary drinks boost risk factors for heart disease, UC-Davis study shows Beverages
sweetened with low, medium and high amounts of high-fructose
corn syrup significantly increase risk factors for
cardiovascular disease, even when consumed for just two weeks by
young, healthy men and women, reports a team of researchers at
the University of California, Davis. The
study is the first to demonstrate a direct, dose-dependent
relationship between the amount of added sugar consumed in
sweetened beverages and increases in specific risk factors for
cardiovascular disease. The
data reinforce evidence from an earlier epidemiological study
showing that the risk of death from cardiovascular disease —
the leading cause of death in the United States and around the
world — increases as the amount of added sugar consumed
increases. The results are reported online and will be published
in the June print edition of the American Journal of Clinical
Nutrition. (Click
for the complete article) |
From
dementia to liver damage, the real toll of too much sugar 16 December
2013 Christmas
truly is the season of sugar. The average British adult will
consume the equivalent of 32 teaspoons of the stuff on Christmas
Day alone, according to the British Heart Foundation. UK
guidelines recommend that we should have no more than 50g - or
around ten teaspoons - of sugar a day.
But surveys suggest the average British adult goes over
this by two teaspoons - much of this coming from sugars added to
our food by manufacturers. And
sugar does more than rot your teeth: in recent months many
experts have argued that it's sugar, not fat, that's to blame
for our obesity epidemic. Yet
sugar is not just full of calories. Some scientists are claiming
that, calorific content aside, a sugary diet is harmful because
it alters crucial processes and hormone levels in the body. So
can we safely indulge our sweet tooth over the Christmas period?
(Click
for the complete article) |
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Dangerous
Drinks
Fruit juice: Just another sugary drink? Relation between consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks and childhood obesity Dietary glycemic load, added sugars, and carbohydrates as risk factors for pancreatic cancer Consumption of Added Sugar Among U.S. Children and Adolescents, 2005–2008 Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in African American Women Sugar-Sweetened Soft Drinks, Obesity, and Type 2 Diabetes Taxing Caloric Sweetened Beverages
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