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If you are on a standard 2,000-calorie diet, this means that you should be eating no more than 500 calories from sugar, or 125 grams. Like all carbohydrates, sugar contains 4 calories per gram. The USDA recommendations are lower than the IOM's.
For your reference, 1 teaspoon is 4 grams of sugar. A can of coke has 39 grams of added sugar, or almost 10 teaspoons of sugar. Awful, but true. Many Americans consume 2-3 pounds of sugar each week compared to the end of the 19th century, when the average American consumed only 5 lbs. per year. How Much Sugar Should You Eat? The AHA recommends men do not eat more than 9 teaspoons of added sugars per day (36 grams), and women do not eat more than 6 teaspoons (24 grams). I would prefer eating 0 teaspoons of added sugar, as hard as it is to implement.