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Diet tips – all about sugar

Written by InsideAdmin on January 31, 2008 – 1:38 pm -

Be careful of eating too much sugar - especially from fizzy lemonades, sweets and cakes.

Sugar is a pure substance extracted by sugar beets or sugar canes. The clean sugar doesn’t contain vitamins and minerals, which otherwise are found in for instance sweet fruits.

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The Empty calories in sugar

Clean sugar is called popular as empty calories.
That contains only energy, contrary to a pineapple or an orange that apart from their natural sugar content also contains vitamins and minerals.
If the food contains for many empty calories, they pick up the space for more healthy foods, and there will be a risk of that one doesn’t get the cover one’s need for vitamins and minerals.

There are many types of sugar, and includes products as a granulated sugar, pearl sugar, lump sugar, brown clayed sugar (icing sugar).
When health experts talk about sugar, they also think of the sugar, which occurs like ingredient in e.g. fizzy lemonades, sweets, cakes and other sweets.

Your Daily recommendations

The experts have therefore estimated that a healthy broom ought to contain at most containing sugar corresponding to 10 % of the food’s energy-content. This amount answers to 30-40 Gs sigh during the day for a kindergarten child, for a school child 45-60 Gs, for a grown woman 55-60 Gs and for a man 55-70 Gs. It shouldn’t be a problem to both eat healthily and at the same time consider your sweet tooth.

Honey is also empty calories

Honey is by and large also clean sugar that the bees have extracted of the flowers’ nectar. Honey contains small quantities of vitamins and minerals, but it’s as little that it’s without importance for the health. Honey is therefore also to be expected to the empty calories.


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