[Magdalen] Eliminating sugar?

Grace Cangialosi gracecan at gmail.com
Tue Jan 27 03:49:14 UTC 2015


I have yet to find a conversion formula from grams to teaspoons, but all the labels are given in grams.

On January 26, 2015, at 9:18 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
> And even before my conversation with my doctor, I'd hear something on NPR
> about the amount of added sugar Americans eat, and it's something like 23
> teaspoons a day!  Yikes!! And I don't even add table sugar to anything I
> eat or drink.

The WHO recommends a limit of about 25g per day. USA folks average 90g
per day; people in the EU about 100g.

People in Brazil win the prize, with an average of 152g sugar consumed
per day per person.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09/08/sugar-recommended-limit-counties-eat-most_n_5782554.html


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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA


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