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You'd think it would be pretty easy for you to win, considering all the sugar in sodas, ice cream, candy, and big white bags labeled sugar.
People get about half of their added sugars from those drinks and treats, so it might seem like sugar is hiding in plain sight, but like someone in the witness protection program, the other half is hidden in places you'd least suspect.
You'll find sugar hiding in most of those products.
But how is sugar hiding?
Just like your friend Robert might go by Bob, Robby, Rob, Bobby, or Roberto, added sugar has a lot of aliases.
There's brown rice syrup, barley malt, demerara, Florida Crystals, muscovado, and, of course, high fructose corn syrup, sometimes called HFCS, or corn sugar.
Even sugar's tricky nicknames have nicknames.
And even though organic evaporated cane juice sounds healthy, when you evaporate it, you get sugar!
And even trickier, when multiple added types of sugars are used in one type of product, they get buried down in a long list of ingredients, so the sugar content might appear to be okay, but when you add them all together, sugar can be the single biggest ingredient.
Currently, the FDA doesn't suggest a recommended daily limit for sugar, so it's hard to tell if this 65 grams in a bottle of soda is a little or a lot.
But the World Health Organization recommends limiting sugar to just 5% of your total calories, or about 25 grams per day.
But just what is sugar?
It's sugar that makes cookies chewy and candy crunchy.
That's why sugar is hiding everywhere.
Actually, it might be easier to list the foods that added sugar isn't hiding in, things like: vegetables, eggs, meats, fish, fruit, raw nuts, even your kitchen sink.
Simply choosing water over soda, juices, and sports drinks is a great way to avoid hidden added sugar.
At the very least, try to pay attention to food labels, so you can keep your sugar intake at a healthy level.
Because in this game of hide and seek, every time you don't find added sugar, you win!
That's mostly water and some vinegar, sugar, and spices.
The crops grown in the new colonies, sugar cane, tobacco, and cotton, were labor intensive, and there were not enough settlers or indentured servants to cultivate all the new land.
And especially with sugar, our bodies send a signal to our brain that says, "Remember what you're eating and where you found it."
A fetus with such unrestricted access can manufacture hormones to increase the mother's blood sugar, dilate her arteries, and inflate her blood pressure.
This is a simple sugar, or monosaccharide.
So when you eat any carbohydrate-rich food, the sugar level in your blood, normally about a teaspoon, goes up.
These foods have a high glycemic index, the amount that a particular food raises the sugar level in your blood.
Soda and white bread have a similar glycemic index because they have a similar effect on your blood sugar.
When sugar moves from the digestive tract to the blood stream, your body kicks into action to transfer it into your tissues where it can be processed and used for energy.
Insulin, a hormone synthesized in the pancreas, is one of the body's main tools for sugar management.
When you eat and your blood sugar rises, insulin is secreted into the blood.
It prompts your muscle and fat cells to let glucose in and jump starts the conversion of sugar to energy.
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