Staying Below Sugar Goal

kshama2001

lemurcat2 wrote: »

Original post is from before the second Obama presidential term officially began.

OP bumped the thread with a link to this: http://www.reducetriglycerides.com/diet_triglycerides_sugar.htm

The link confirms what many told OP before (the recommended sugar limits -- not MFP's goals, but the ones to pay attention to for most people -- refer to free sugars, not sugar in fruit, dairy, and veg, etc.). I would personally not limit foods like fruit or plain greek yogurt due to misplaced concern about "sugar" given MFP's goal if I were also feeling satisfied with my diet, hitting my calories, and getting sufficient protein, healthy fats, and veg (which also have sugar, but not as much as fruit).

It's otherwise a pretty silly link, however, since it asserts: "Although we are eating way too much sugar, consuming less sugar is not that easy as it would seem. Cutting back to 10 - 12 teaspoons a day is going to be tough."

IME, this is not really true. I even cut added sugar entirely out for a while as an experiment and found it pretty easy, and my MFP diary confirmed that I was not getting sugar from surprising sources. So I would say it's pretty easy to avoid added sugar for the most part (obviously if one eats dessert foods, cereals or yogurts with added sugar (plenty don't have it), or various other packaged items with lots of added sugar, you may end up excessing a goal, but it's not like it's difficult to see or limit what has added sugar).

What OP's particular concern is now, hard to know, since she didn't say when she posted her link, and the first post was so very long ago.

10 - 12 teaspoons is 40 - 48 grams of sugar...between my lightly sweetened tea, yogurt, and Ghirardelli square, I'm at 57 g of added sugar without having tried to reduce, and could get under that easily by switching to unsweetened yogurt.

I may challenge myself to keep added sugar under 10 percent of my total energy intake for a month.

I watched the following yesterday. I'm not willing to completely give up added sugar, but under 10% sounds doable.

https://youtu.be/wBtslkL5nUA

kshama2001

My mom, who probably consumes under 10% of her calories in added sugar, and doesn't drink soda or fruit juice, is susceptible to all the "SUGAR IS GOING TO KILL YOU" hype and just asked me to print out this article for her: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/well/eat/the-downside-of-having-a-sweet-tooth.html

walkerboy2

WHO recommends a maximum of 5 to 10 teaspoons of free sugars per day. WHO recommends reducing free sugar intake at all stages of life to under 10 percent of physical calories to reduce the risk of unhealthy weight gain and dental caries. This equals a maximum of 50 g of sugar per day.

https://www.ages.at/en/topics/nutrition/who-sugar-recommendations/

Have a watch of this video - very informative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFpbkC_HimY

nooboots

What on earth is 'low sugar orange juice', sounds horribly processed to me.

Im always under on my sugar levels but way way over on the fat.

Why dont you just have milk in your coffee, what is all this 'coffee creamer' stuff, again sounds processed.

Processed breakfast cereal nearly always has added sugar, even though most of them taste awful, so have some eggs on toast or a small omelette or something

lemurcat2

walkerboy2 wrote: »

WHO recommends a maximum of 5 to 10 teaspoons of free sugars per day. WHO recommends reducing free sugar intake at all stages of life to under 10 percent of physical calories to reduce the risk of unhealthy weight gain and dental caries. This equals a maximum of 50 g of sugar per day.

No, they recommend less than 10%, ideally less than 5% FREE sugars per day. That does not mean less than 50 g sugar on MFP, which includes intrinsic sugars.

There are no credible studies suggesting total sugar is an issue.

Obviously have sufficient protein, veg, fiber, healthy fats.