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"Guys, I recently scanned the label of my favorite jar of marinara sauce and found sugar in the ingredient list. Sugar! You should have seen me. I almost dropped the jar. OK, so a little bit isn&amp;#39;t going to kill us, but here&amp;#39;s my rant: Do they have to add it to everything? Can some things remain sacred no-sugar zones? Like marinara sauce for crying out loud? New warnings about sugar to tell you about...\nPinterestFacebookPHOTO: (c) 42840.000000When did everything suddenly get so darn sweet? If it seems like sugar makes an appearance in everything you eat these days, it&amp;#39;s true. According to reports, Americans are now eating 19 percent more sugar than they did in the 1970s. We&amp;#39;re on a sugar high, people. And, citing sugar&amp;#39;s role in weight gain and obesity, the American Heart Association wants to do something about it.\nThey recently issued new guidelines for sugar. Women, they say, should try to consume no more than six teaspoons of added sugar every day. (Men get to have 10 teaspoons.) If America cooperated? We&amp;#39;d cut our added sugar consumption by 70 percent.\nBy the way, &amp;quot;added sugars&amp;quot; includes any non-natural occurring sugar in our food. For you ingredient label sleuths: 1 teaspoon of sugar = 4.2 grams. That means my soy latte serves up 2 teaspoons (8 grams) of sugar. Yikes!\nEek, is sugar making you age?\nWant to start slashing sugar? Here are some good tips on how to cut back, and read this Vitamin G reader&amp;#39;s story about how she zapped all added sugar from her diet ... for a month!\nLet&amp;#39;s talk sugar! Does it bug you that it&amp;#39;s everywhere and in everything? Do you worry about your sugar consumption? Any tips to share on how you&amp;#39;re cutting back?\nSign up for Glamour.com&amp;#39;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters!\nMore Ways to Get Glamour:\nYou could win $50,000 just for registering or logging in to Glamour.com!\nAdd Glamour to your iGoogle homepage!\nFollow us on Twitter!\nPhoto: iStock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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