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Shocking Sugar

The Dark side of Carbohydrates

By Deborah Mulvany

GDA Guidelines Daily Amounts

Adult Child Age 5-10

Calories 2000Kcal Calories1800KcalTotal Sugar 90g Total Sugar 85gFat 70g Fat 70gSaturates 20g Saturates 20gSalt 6g Salt 4gFibre 24g Fibre 15g

Adult GDA is based on GDA for women, GDA’s are guidelines and amounts vary dependent on age, gender,

weight and activity.

We are talking about sugar90g /4 = 22.5 tea spoons / 5 meals = 4.5 per

meal

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What is Sugar?

Refined table sugar = sucrose - Glucose + fructose

Starches = long chain glucose molecules stuck together

Fibrous Carbs non fibrous carbs table sugar VEG/Fruit Starch's

GOOD BAD UGLY

Body Burns Sugar in preference to Fat or protein

Liver stores provide glucose for the brain specifically

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Every Year in the UK

2.25 Million Tons of refined sugar goes through our warehouse

24% ends up as table sugar

That’s a 2lb bag of sugar per person every month

The remaining 1.7 million tons gets hidden in our food

Where?Drinks, sweets, biscuits, snacks, bread, ready meals, processed dishes, its even sprayed on things like meat.

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sucrose, fructose, glucose, galactose, maple syrup,

molasses, dextrose, turbinado, amazake, sorbitol, lactose, carob

powder, granulated sugarmaltose, invert sugar, raw sugar

brown sugar, confectioner's sugar, corn syrup, high-fructose

corn syrup,Glycogen, starch, celulose..

honey

Other names for Sugar?

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Which ones contain Carbohydrates?

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Sugar & Insulin

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Excess Carbs stored as FAT

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Full English Breakfast

Bacon = zeroEgg = zero½ tomato = 1Mushroom = traceSausage = 1.5So far that’s only 2.5 tsps

Hash brown = 2.5Baked beans = 3

Altogether 8 tsps.

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Cereals

Kellogg's® Low Fat Granola With Raisins Multi-Grain cereal per 60g serving = 12

spoons sugar

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Continental

6.2 spoons of sugar

2 spoonsOf sugar

Banana = 2Apple = 2.5Cup Dried apricots = 4Fresh apricots = 0.5 eachClementine's = 1Kiwi fruit = 1 Dried Fig = 6Cub berries = 1½ Grapefruit = 1

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Excess Carbs ie sugar is stored as FAT

You don’t need as much as you think just the equivalent to 7 to 9 fruits and veg a day

90g for women and 120g for men approx. equal to 5 tsps. Of sugar per meal on a 5 a day plan

Remember, replace all starchy (refined) grains like pasta, rice, bread (or other flour products) with Whole grains

Choose carbohydrates because they are nutrient rich.

Skipping breakfast is just as bad as a carb rich one

Artificial zero calorie sweeteners are now known to act on the body the same as sugar,

The Mission is Good NutritionIn summary

What your body needs

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