[Magdalen] Eliminating sugar?

[Grace Cangialosi]

Well duh......of course they wouldn't, since one measures weight and the other volume! Like the old "Which weighs more: a pound of feathers or a pound of lead?"

Sometimes my general science background fails me! Thanks, Marion...

On January 27, 2015, at 9:14 AM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:

Grams and teaspoons would not necesssarily agree, for weights and 
volumes vary according to the substance being measured.

Marion, a pilgrim   ... today my sail I lift ....
On 1/26/2015 10:49 PM, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
> 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:
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> 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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