Cereal with milk & walnuts, toast
with jelly & fruit
Chicken rolls in mushroom sauce, rice
pilaf & fruit & salad
Grilled marinated steak with broccoli
cheese potato & fruit
Whole-wheat pretzels with club soda
Sugar: How Much Is Too
Much?
What's the bottom line on sugar? Well, it's certainly contributing to
the expanding "bottoms" of Americans!
Americans
eat on average more than 160 pounds of sugar a year. That's too much!
More than 61 percent of adult Americans and 14 percent of children are
overweight. More than 37 percent of adults are obese, and the U.S.
Surgeon General has declared obesity an epidemic, directly contributing
to over 300,000 deaths annually.
(Excerpt from Sugar:
How Much Is Too Much? Article by Susan L. Burke, MS, RD/LD, CDE eDiets Director of Nutrition
Services)
Sweet Victory: 10 Ways
To Kick The Sugar Habit
eDiets.com's favorite energy coach Pamela Smith is ready to put you
sugar junkies through her own personal rehab. You can check in any time
you like. But the sooner you swallow her advice, the quicker you'll
kick the sugar habit.
"Our blood sugar is one of the most powerful influences
on our well-being, our ability to lose weight, and our appetite. From a
chemical perspective, regulating bloods sugar levels is the most
effective way to release our energy and fat-burning capacity.
"When our blood sugars are up and even, but not too
high, we are brimming with energy and vitality and our appetite is in
control. When the levels are bouncing widely and wildly, our energy,
mood, memory, clarity of though and overall performance is apt to rise
and fall along with them.
"Too much sugar and refined carbohydrates is a drain on
anyone's energy metabolism, and a serious one for people with sensitive
blood sugar responses. Your healthy goal is to learn the impact that
food has on you -- and the dependency you may have on it...
(Excerpt from Sweet
Victory: 10 Ways To Kick The Sugar Habit article by Kim Droze
Senior Writer)
How Sweet It Is! Scoring
Sugar Substitutes
Do Sweeteners Aid Weight Loss?
Nonnutritive sweeteners replace sugar-sweetened foods at a calorie
savings of 16 calories per teaspoon. However, they are not the magic
bullet to weight loss. To lose weight, you have to eat fewer calories
than your body burns, and this means watching how many calories you are
getting from all energy sources -- fat, protein and carbohydrate (which
include sugar sources).
It's crucial to look at your overall eating pattern and
not just your sugar intake. For example, having a double cheeseburger
with a diet cola is not going to help you reach your weight-loss goal.
However, they do make it possible to include a greater variety of sweet
foods in the diet without adding too much sugar or too many calories,
which can help with weight loss.
(Excerpt from How
Sweet It Is! Scoring Sugar Substitutes article by eDiets)
