David Alber » diet http://www.davidalber.net Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:25:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Surprise: Americans Eat Too Much Added Sugar http://www.davidalber.net/2009/08/surprise-americans-eat-too-much-added-sugar/ http://www.davidalber.net/2009/08/surprise-americans-eat-too-much-added-sugar/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:04:57 +0000 David Alber http://www.davidalber.net/?p=530 The American Heart Association has reminded us again that Americans consume a lot of added sugar each day. Between 2001 and 2004, Americans consumed, on average, twenty-two teaspoons of added sugar daily. The recommended limits? For men: nine teaspoons, and women: six teaspoons.

This article claims that teenagers eat thirty-four teaspoons of added sugar daily, on average. It also has some other interesting information, such as the amount of sugar that “fruit-flavored” yogurt contains: six teaspoons.

And to put this into a unit that actually helps you: one teaspoon of sugar is about 4.2 grams.

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