Sugar Blues

[CathyA]

Yes sweetana........that's great!

[mtnlaurel]

I was led to this article this morning on the History of Sugar Trade....

http://www.livescience.com/4949-suga...ged-world.html

I don't think the Historical connection between Slavery and Sugar and now Modern Day Slavery to Sugar is a coincidental!
Karma is a Female Dog sometimes!

Here's a link to another discussion on this board from 2013 on sugar
http://www.simplelivingforum.net/showthread.php?8796-Sugar&highlight=sugar

If anyone has sugar use updates or advice they'd like to share on decreasing sugar use, I'd love to hear them (for the ump-teenth time...... remedial-life-lesson-learner here )

[Suzanne]

I'm going through a bit of withdrawal right now, just for that reason. Although I choose flour as my additive white powder over sugar. I can only eat so much sweet stuff - but I can eat endless amounts of bread and crackers and pasta. And beer. Week 2 cutting back. It's amazing how much more free time you have when you aren't busy eating or being full.

Flour is also sugar. Starches are very long-chain sugars, and they break down in the body to simple sugars. Hence, same problems with insulin-spiking, which leads to triglyceride formation, fat storage, and fatty liver syndrome. Being hypoglycaemic, I watch the glycaemic index of my starches. Potatoes, for example, hit the bloodstream as sugar faster than the sugar from chugging a soda. Sweet potatoes, though sweeter to the taste, have a much lower glycaemic index and are easier on the pancreas.

[Suzanne]

I was led to this article this morning on the History of Sugar Trade....

http://www.livescience.com/4949-suga...ged-world.html

I don't think the Historical connection between Slavery and Sugar and now Modern Day Slavery to Sugar is a coincidental!
Karma is a Female Dog sometimes!

Here's a link to another discussion on this board from 2013 on sugar
http://www.simplelivingforum.net/showthread.php?8796-Sugar&highlight=sugar

If anyone has sugar use updates or advice they'd like to share on decreasing sugar use, I'd love to hear them (for the ump-teenth time...... remedial-life-lesson-learner here )

Here's a helpful visual link: http://www.sugarstacks.com/
Each of the cubes of sugar in these photos is 1 teaspoon of sugar. The American Heart Association and American Diabetes Association recommend that women eat no more than 6 teaspoons (6 cubes) of free sugar per day and men no more than 9. This is on the standard recommendation of 2,000 calories a day for women and 2,500 for a man, so it's roughly 5% of the calorie allowance. It also means that for people eating fewer calories, the free sugar allowance drops! For somebody on 1600 calories a day, that's no more than 5 teaspoons/cubes of sugar.

Food labels give the amount of sugar per serving in grams. Divide this by 4 to get the number of teaspoons/cubes in that food.

For example, Starbucks Caramel Frappucino has 64g sugar. Divide by 4, and that's 16 teaspoons, or 2 and 2/3 days worth of sugar for a woman eating 2,000 calories per day, or a tad over 3 days worth of sugar for a woman on 1600! http://www.starbucks.com/menu/drinks...blended-coffee