UNDERSTANDING SUGAR ON A LABEL
You may not think you eat that much sugar because you don’t snack on sweets, but do you read labels in prepackaged food and know how to calculate how many grams of sugar equal a tea- spoon?
On a label, sugar is expressed in grams and four grams is equal to one teaspoon. So whatever the number of grams, divide it by four and that is the number of teaspoons.
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about changing bad habits. You have to look at what got you here to begin with and we have to take care of those things to help someone reach their goal. If you don’t change their mind, change their patterns, if they don’t love themselves, they will put it all back on.”
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First, don’t cut too many calories too fast, said Collins, who is certified through the National Exercise Trainers Association.
A common mistake she sees when people are geared up to lose weight is they cut back to so few calories their bodies store the food
At Living Well, we decided to dig through our cupboard and refrigerator and pick random items to see how much sugar they contained. A strawberry banana Yoplait had 18 grams of sugar or 4 teaspoons; one cup of orange juice had 22 grams or 5.5 tea- spoons of sugar; a Coke has about 39 grams or 9.75 teaspoons.
Would you knowingly eat that much sugar? It was a lesson to read labels.
Read all labels because “healthy foods” were some of the biggest culprits. Dried dates, which seem healthy, have 25 grams of sugar or 6.25 teaspoons.
The biggest surprise was Naked Green Machine 100 percent juice smoothie with 53 grams of sugar or 13.25 teaspoons.
Reading labels and calculating the sugar content may help change your patterns.
Source: WebMD and Living Well Staff
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