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sodium and sugar from fruit...how important are they???

mitzi2013
mitzi2013 Posts: 47 Member
edited January 11 in Health and Weight Loss
How important is it to keep track of sodium? I find that I go over the allowed 2500 mg almost every day. Also, I've had people tell me that fruit sugar is fine and others tell me that sugar is sugar and it's bad.

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  • trogalicious
    trogalicious Posts: 4,584 Member
    I don't track sugars, and unless you've a medical condition that requires it, I wouldn't worry about it. I try to keep my sodium under most days. If you're eating processed food (No, I'm not a EAT CLEAN OR DIE type) it's hard to not go over the sodium.
  • tsh0ck
    tsh0ck Posts: 1,970 Member
    yup. barring medical reasons, neither is really necessary to track.
  • mitzi2013
    mitzi2013 Posts: 47 Member
    Thanks guys :smile:
  • Xiaolongbao
    Xiaolongbao Posts: 854 Member
    I agree.

    And yes, sugar is sugar BUT sugar in fruit comes along with a healthy dose of good stuff like fibre, vitamins etc. Sugar in (for example) a coke does not.
  • spamantha57
    spamantha57 Posts: 674 Member
    I don't really eat processed foods or things like canned/ frozen meals, so my sodium is pretty low - usually less than 1,500mg/day, so I don't really pay much attention to it because I know I'm good.

    Fruit is good. Natural things are good. Processed junk is not. Eat fruit. :smile:

    And not all sugar is sugar. I want to strangle the people that made the stupid high fructose corn syrup commercial. HFCS = stay away.
  • tsh0ck
    tsh0ck Posts: 1,970 Member
    you know that sugar is pretty much the same as HFCS in terms of proportions, right?
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