There’s a good chance that you’re consuming more sugar than you should on a daily basis. The sweet stuff hides in everything from the sauce you put on your pasta to the (seemingly healthy) almond milk you pour on your breakfast cereal.
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I know fruit has some important nutrition, but now I’m worried about even half a piece of fruit. the average daily intake of fructose for Americans is, 80grams. there is a problem there. In 1822 the average American ingested 45 grams of sugar, every 5 days, In 2012, Americans consumed 765 grams of sugar every five days. http://facts.randomhistory.com/sugar-facts.html.
http://www.foodpolitics.com/2013/02/lets-ask-marion-whats-the-recommended-daily-allowance-of-sugar/
To put that in perspective, more than 70 percent of Americans eat at least 22 teaspoons of added sugar daily, according to the Harvard School of Public Health. In fact, it’s possible you’re meeting — or exceeding — your daily sugar intake target with just one meal, snack or beverage a day. Here’s how it happens.
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This amount is much less than typically consumed by adults. As for sugars, the IOM noted that the average intake of sugars among adolescent males was 143 grams per day, and that the heaviest users were consuming 208 grams per day–much more than the amount of total carbohydrate needed.
http://www.foodpolitics.com/2013/02/lets-ask-marion-whats-the-recommended-daily-allowance-of-sugar/
They were opened up for public comment through March 31, 2014. The American Heart Association recommends limiting sugar intake to no more than half of your daily discretionary calorie allowance: No more than 100 calories per day for women (about 6 teaspoons) and no more than 150 calories per day for men (9 teaspoons).
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/world-health-organization-lowers-sugar-intake-recommendations/
That’s what the U.S. Pyramid did in 1992. The sugar industry does not like the 10% recommendation. It means, for example, that just one of Mayor Bloomberg’s 16-ounce sodas takes care of recommended sugar intake for the day.
http://www.foodpolitics.com/2013/02/lets-ask-marion-whats-the-recommended-daily-allowance-of-sugar/
The majority of Americans can attribute a whopping 16 percent of their daily calorie intake to added sugars (think: the stuff found in cookies, not the natural sugars found in fruit), according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The World Health Organization is dropping its sugar intake recommendations from 10 percent of your daily calorie intake to 5 percent. For an adult of a normal body mass index (BMI), that works out to about 6 teaspoons -- or 25 grams -- of sugar per day. Many people don't realize much of the sugar they take in are hidden in processed foods, according to WHO. A can of soda may contain up to 10 teaspoons or 40 grams of sugar. A tablespoon of ketchup has 1 teaspoon of sugar.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/world-health-organization-lowers-sugar-intake-recommendations/
In order to stay healthy, the American Heart Association recommends no more than six teaspoons, or about 25 grams, of added sugars per day for women, and nine teaspoons, or about 36 grams, for men.
http://dailyburn.com/life/health/daily-sugar-intake-infographic/
Reducing free sugars intake to less than 10% of total daily energy intake was recommended by the WHO Study Group for the first time in 1989 and was further elaborated by a joint WHO/FAO Expert Consultation in 2002.
http://who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/sugar-guideline/en/
how much of our daily intake should sugar be
No more than six teaspoons, or about 25 grams, of added sugars per day for women, and nine teaspoons, or about 36 grams, for men. The daily intake of sugar is no more than six teaspoons or about 25 grams for women and nine teaspoons or about 36 grams for men.