Added Sugar Effects

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• The AHA suggests an added-sugar limit of no more than 100 calories per day (about 6 teaspoons or 24 grams of sugar) for most women

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• no more than 150 calories per day (about 9 teaspoons or 36 grams of sugar) for most men.

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• There’s no nutritional need or benefit that comes from eating added sugar.

Sugar-Sweetened Beverages ​

​Not a good source of calories

​Soft drinks are a prime source of extra calories that can contribute to weight gain and provide no nutritional benefits.  

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Liquid carbohydrates such as sugar-sweetened beverages as are less filling than the solid forms causing people to continue to feel hungry after consumption.

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Their contributions to the development of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and other chronic conditions are a worldwide problem.

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Cereals and other foods

​Choosing whole, unprocessed breakfast foods that don’t have lengthy ingredient lists is one way to avoid eating added sugars.

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Unfortunately, many common breakfast foods such as ready-to-eat breakfast cereals, cereal bars, instant oatmeal with added flavoring, and pastries can contain high amounts of added sugars.

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• So don’t be fooled – your body metabolizes all added sugars the same way; it doesn’t distinguish between “brown sugar” and “honey.” When reading a label, make sure you spot all sources of added sugars even if they’re not listed as the first few ingredients.

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How to spot added sugar on food labels

​Ingredients are listed in descending order by weight where sugar is listed in relation to other ingredients can indicate how much sugar a particular food contains.

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• Added sugars go by many different names, yet they are all a source of extra calories.

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Food makers can also use sweeteners that aren’t technically sugar—a term which is applied only to table sugar, or sucrose—but these other sweeteners are in fact forms of added sugar.

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