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Choose beverages and foods to moderate your intake of sugar
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Excess sugar may contribute to obesity and dental caries. Most
people are well aware of the large amount of sugar in candy, cakes, cookies and
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Experts recommend that no
more than 10% of total daily calories should be from sugar. This means that someone eating 2000 calories a day (the
average amount of calories that should be consumed by Americans today) should
not eat more than 200 calories in sugar a day. |
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How much sugar is in a 12 ounce can of soda pop? |
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Can too much sugar cause diabetes? |
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Can too much sugar make me fat? |
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A good way to lower your sugar
intake is to add less sugar to foods (like coffee or tea) drink
less soda and sweet beverages. Read food labels to determine how
much sugar is in the foods that you eat.
For more information on sugar
consumption:
http://www.nalusda.gov/fnic/dga/dga95/sugars.html
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/jun00/sugar0600.htm
http://www.cspinet.org/new/sugar_limit.html
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