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RE: Quitting Sugar for 30 days (Day 1) - @guyfawkes4-20 , @macchiata - challenge accepted!
Good luck! I quit soda a few years ago.. still can't let my coffee go yet! I give you major props!
I saw an interesting finding from the American Heart Association. They recommend about 6 teaspoons per day for women and 9 teaspoons per day for men on average. (4.2 grams is considered a teaspoon of sugar). I heard that and started looking at the grams of sugar in things.. it shocked me! my kids juice had like 23g PER SERVING! needless to say I changed our shopping habits!
-They also highlighted how sugar is not regulated by daily nutritional amounts like say salt, fat or iron is. You'd never see a percentage next to it on a nutrition label... very scary!
Our food is regulated by maniacs. If cigarettes have to put health warnings on the package, so should soda, the amount of sugar in most packaged drinks is totally insane and not even delicious.