The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends a consumption of 12 teaspoons a day. If you are not aware of what we have been telling you (that many foods have added sugars and you do not know it), this measure seems easy to fulfill "who takes 12 teaspoons of sugar a day?", You will ask yourself.
The reality is that if you add to your pair of teaspoons of sugar that you can place in your daily coffees, the added sugar in products you can't even imagine or do not take into account how: ham, yogurt, cereal bars, juices, cereals, sauces and even almond milk!surely - very surely - your daily consumption will exceed this WHO recommendation!
This organization invites us to sugar consumption does not exceed 10% of daily calories consumed And to be more specific, they clarify that a consumption of 5% (or below) -that is, about 25 grams approximately- would result in additional benefits for our health.
It is important to note that this concern about the high consumption of sugar in the population makes sense. And is that consume more sugar than recommended, you can derive -as we already advanced in the previous point- in serious health problems, highlighting diseases, such as:
- Obesity
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Diabetes
- Metabolic syndrome
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To understand the concern of those who seek healthy life: Only one can of a cola, has approximately 35 grams. of added sugars.