Posted on 04/08/2023 4:50:43 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Experts recommend reducing consumption of added ("free") sugars to around six teaspoons a day and limiting sugar-sweetened drinks to less than one serving a week after a comprehensive evidence review.
They found significant harmful associations between sugar consumption and 45 outcomes, including asthma, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, depression, some cancers and death.
It's widely known that excessive sugar intake can have negative effects on health, and this has prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) and others to suggest reducing consumption of free or added sugars to less than 10% of total daily energy intake.
Researchers therefore carried out an umbrella review to assess the quality of evidence, potential biases, and validity of all available studies on dietary sugar consumption and health outcomes.
Umbrella reviews synthesize previous meta-analyses.
Significant harmful associations were found between dietary sugar consumption and 18 endocrine or metabolic outcomes including diabetes, gout and obesity; 10 cardiovascular outcomes including high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke; seven cancer outcomes including breast, prostate and pancreatic cancer; and 10 other outcomes including asthma, tooth decay, depression and death.
Moderate quality evidence suggested that sugar-sweetened beverage consumption was significantly associated with increased body weight for highest versus lowest consumption, while any versus no added-sugar consumption was associated with increased liver and muscle fat accumulation.
Low-quality evidence indicated that each one serving per week increment of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption was associated with a 4% higher risk of gout, and each 250 mL/day increment of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption was associated with a 17% and 4% higher risk of coronary heart disease and death, respectively.
Low-quality evidence also suggested that every 25 g/day increment of fructose intake was associated with a 22% increased risk of pancreatic cancer.
In general, no reliable evidence showed beneficial associations between dietary sugar consumption and any health outcomes.
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Anyone can look at a single study on its own, and profit—especially if the suggested course of action is relatively innocuous to try.
That said, nothing positive was found for added sugar intake and the unfortunate level of concern was just six teaspoons a day.
In sum, go lower carb, if you don’t want added sugar health issues.
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6 tsp a day??? Seems like a lot to me
Six teaspoons a day? That’s barely one glass of sweet tea.
Tell that crap to Alvin Bragg.
If everyone is starving because of fertilizer shortages, I doubt that anyone will care about this.
I had an uncle who told anyone and everyone that processed sugar was dangerous to your health so he avoided that and all other forms of processed junk food. My uncle was the healthiest man you ever met. He lived a good long life till he died at age 95.
Unfortunately, Alzheimer’s kicked when he was about 65 or 70. So for the last 25 years of his life he was physically fit, but mentally gone.
So there’s that.
I am a type 2 diabetic (and winning).
I am already at less than that per day - most days anyway.
How about limiting to NO added sugar?
That’s the spirit!
There are 4 calories/gram, for carbohydrates. 6 tsp weighs about 24g. That means about there are about 96 calories in 6 teaspoons of sugar. That’s about 1/3 can of pop.
This sounds like a study from the institute of substitute sugar.
They are basically saying to have no more than 1/3 a can of pop/day. You get more sugar in an apple than that.
I think the conclusion is screw the study and just concentrate on having the best diet overall.
But bugs are plentiful. I can eat for years in my backyard alone.
If we did everything that experts recommended…
I think the average Coke or Pepsi has the equivalent of between 40 and 50 tps sugar.
I add sugar to nothing. I eat enough carbs already.🙄
Sugar is ADDICTING.
I would say that, keep your body fat at around 20% for males and 25% for females. Use biofeedback to keep things relatively on track. If you’re fat goes up, cut back on carbs. If you are falling below your target, increase your carbs.
Oh, I do, but I’m careful to select which experts will recommend doing what I would anyway.
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