31
Mar 11

Not So Sweet: Sugar

A five letter word for ‘why am I so fat?’

 

A five letter word for ‘why don’t I have any energy?’

 

A five letter word for ‘I seem to get sick all the time…’

 

A five letter word for ‘why do I have this inner tube around my waist?’

 

This is a little harsh, but it’s true. Sugar can be the culprit for all these woes.

 

Sugar isn’t all that bad in moderate quantities. But in our world of ‘super size’ what IS moderation?

 

Speaking of five letter words, here are all the tricky ways you’ll find sugar listed:

 

barley malt
beet sugar
brown sugar
buttered syrup
cane-juice crystals
cane sugar
caramel
carob syrup
corn syrup
corn-syrup solids
date sugar
dextran
dextrose
diastase
diastatic malt
ethyl maltol
evaporated cane juice
fructose
fruit juice
fruit-juice concentrate
glucose
glucose solids
golden sugar
golden syrup
grape sugar
high-fructose corn syrup
honey
invert sugar
lactose
malt syrup
maltodextrin
maltose
mannitol
molasses
raw sugar
refiner’s syrup
sorbitol
sorghum syrup
sucrose
turbinado sugar
yellow sugar

 

Pretty sneaky eh?

I wanted to show a visual of how much sugar is in a variety of food stuffs. Here are regular sugar cubes (4 grams of sugar each or 16 calories) to show how the sugars in your favorite foods stack up, gram for gram.…

 

Maybe you want to rethink some of your choices…nuff said, take a look:


 

Now that you’re put off of sugar, learn how to clean up your nutrition and fit into your jeans better…

 

 

 

This entry was posted on March 31, 2011 at 4:35 am. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

Posted in Healthy Eating by Shawna 4 Comments

4 Responses to "Not So Sweet: Sugar"