Sweet Tooth?? Limit Sugar to 50 grams a day!

14 Mind-Blowing Facts About Sugar

The  standard American diet is filled with this sweet ‘treat” or health threat, however you choose to look at it. Sugar is poisoning  us and often we have no idea how much we are consuming.in the big picture that is nothing ‘sweet’ about  too much!

1.      The average American without monitoring consumes about 22 tsps a day.

2.      The average American child consumer about 33 tsps a day.

3.      The max one should consume in a day is about 8.

4.      Sugar is now being linked to: mood swings, insomnia, manic depression, tooth decay, heart disease, hypertension, add and adhd, high cholesterol, allergies, hair loss, depression, gallstones and hair loss. It can provoke, personality changes, irritability and endocrine problems.

5.      Sugar is addictive, it releases a opiate –like substance that activates the brains reward system.

6.      Americans average drinking 53 gallons of soda per person each year!! The average soft drink contains about 11 tsps of sugar…that is 3 more then you should  have  in a  day.one soda a day has you consuming 74 cups of sugar in a year!! In the past 10 years sugar consumption has jumped 31 percent, as well as the diseases associated with it.

7.      In the average American diet, sugar 496 calories are from hidden sugars.

8.      Most foods have  sugar , but  you have  to be a food inspector and translator  to find it easily…Read labels!!

9.      Refined sugar has no nutritional value and should NEVER be the main dish!!

1   In lab studies , animals who had  water as there beverage outlived the animals  who were given sugar water by 75%.

11.   Sugar suppresses the immune system.

12.   Sugar impairs liver functioning, which increases, skin issues, high blood  pressure and early aging.

13.   Sugar depletes needed vitamins

14.    Americans consumers 10 times more  then other food additive. MAKE CHANGES WHERE YOU CAN!