Eating sugar when you have a blood sugar disease is like adding fuel to a fire. Most people will react to this statement with panic. Sugar is part of our daily diet, and many delicious foods have a significant amount of sugar in them!
Cakes, pastries, soda, juice, jellies – if it’s delicious, you can bet it has sugar.
To manage blood sugar, you need to stop eating foods that contain a lot of sugar. Be aware, as the sugar comes in many forms. Know the many names of sugar so you can identify them on a Nutrition Facts Label. If it ends in “-ose”, that is sugar. Other than the obvious brown sugar, confectioner’s sugar, powdered sugar, honey, maple syrup, etc. when you see one of the names
below, know that these products listed below contains sugar;
• caramel
• cane juice
• corn sweetener
• corn syrup
• fructose
• galactose
• maltose
• molasses
• treacle
To lower sugar intake, sweeteners such as aspartame, acesulfame potassium, saccharin, and sucralose, which do not increase blood glucose, can be used up to acceptable daily limits. If you don’t want to use artificial sweeteners, stevia which is a natural plant extract, is the best choice.
The World Health Organization recommended that people cut their daily sugar intake from 10% of daily calorie intake to just 5%. The American Heart Association recommended no more than 100 calories of sugar a day for women (6 teaspoons) and not more than 150 calories for men (9 teaspoons).
In case you were not aware, a can of soda contains ten teaspoons of sugar. So, you know what to do. The next time when asked how you like your coffee, your answer better be sugar-free.
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