Sugar is full of empty calories, it contains no other nutrients. If you want to reduce its consumption, read on.
We often think that we need sugar, or that our body requires sugar to give us energy but in reality we can get all the energy we need other foods in a balanced diet. However, it should not exclude sugar from your diet. Exclude a family of food in a diet is generally recommended.
Eating too much sugar is also a major cause of dental caries, the bacteria located on the plaque on your teeth use sugar to produce acids that attack the enamel of the tooth surface.
Read the label is an important step to avoid sugar, consider the following text in the list of feed ingredients: sugar, glucose, dextrose, fructose, and maltose. It is all forms of sugar.
There are other forms of sugar: honey, syrup, raw sugar, brown sugar, cane sugar, muscovite, fruit juice concentrates.
Here are nine tips to reduce our consumption of sugar:
1) If you drink soft drinks, prefer drinks without added sugar, unsweetened fruit juice.
2) Reduce sugar in your tea or coffee, or use sweeteners.
3) Choose canned fruit in natural juice instead of canned fruit in syrup.
4) Try halving the sugar used in recipes. This trick works easily in most recipes, except with the meringue, jam and ice cream. Try to adapt the recipes to see how easy it is to reduce the sugar used.
5) Pay attention to how much you use jam, marmalade, syrup, honey, etc.
6) Watch your intake of cakes, cookies and pastries.
7) Limit your consumption of chocolate candy. Choose healthier snacks.
Choose whole grains rather than grain with outer layers of sugar.
9) Use varieties of desserts ready to eat low sugar.
Even if you have a big appetite, you’ll find that making small changes usually go unnoticed. You can simply continue to reduce the amount of sugar consumed until you take him to a healthy level.
Posted in 
Tags:
I’m so worried about the direction our kids are heading in nowadays. Watching Jamie Olivers food revolution tv show scared the thingies out of me. I suggest we all start cooking some healthy recipe like these at home if we’re going to fix this horrible situation. The ones on that site seem pretty easy, I tried last night and it’s the first time my family has eaten well in so long, I just feel wonderful.