It may seem so simple to cut down on our sugar intake, but it can get confusing when there are a hundred different names, types and forms of sugar: dextrose, cane, fructose, sucrose, lactose, maple syrup and more.
It is suggested that sugar shouldn't make up more that 5% of our calorific intake. However, on average persons aged 11-64 consume closer to 12-15% and rising. Eating too much sugar opens you up to a variety of health problems ranging from diabetes to heart disease.
Here are 5 easy way to reduce your daily sugar intake:
1. Cut down on the suagr you drink
This is a sneaky way that sugars get into your daily intake without you even really thinking about it. A teaspoon of sugar in your tea or coffee, a glass of fruit juice in the morning, soft drinks over lunch and throughout the day. Your evening cocktail or mixer.
If you can't survive without your guilty pleasures try to make the healthier choice, get a setvia based sweetner, chose a reduced sugar fruit juice, have the diet option of your soft drink and chose lower sugar coctails such as the good old G&T or a spritzer instead of a full glass of wine.
2. Find low sugar alternatives
As I mentioned above if you find it really hard to go cold turkey try finding the low sugar alternative of your favourite food and drink. It takes 6 weeks to form a habit, you'll be making healthier decisions without even thinking about it in no time.
3. Know the sugar content of your food
Read the labels and be mindful of the amount if fruit you consume. Remember fructose is a hidden sugar, although they a great source of vitamins they are all very high in nautural sugar so keep consumption reasonable.
4. Keep an eye out for hidden sugars
Get familiar with the alternative names for sugar that manuactures will use on their food labels. If sugar was the main ingredient in your food, would you eat it? Probably not, and the manufacturers know this so they use other scientific terms/ derivatives for sugar to trick you.
5. Learn to ride the wave
Did you know your brain can adapt extremely quickly? When you are craving sugar and then give your body exactly that your brain thinks that the only way to get rid of that craving. However, if you learn to 'ride the wave' i.e. wait out the craving, your brain will quickly learn that it does not need sugar to get rid of that craving and it will soon be able to interpret what it is that your body actually needs.
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