Extra Sugar Means Extra Pounds
A recent article in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition points the finger at extra sugar creating extra pounds for Americans. One can of regular soda pop per day can increase your weight 15 pounds per year.
MSNBC reported the findings in an excellent piece at this link
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14247852/
The following quote from this article revealed something I didn’t realize about fructose -
“About one-third of all carbohydrate calories in the American diet come from added sweeteners, and beverages account for about half of this amount, the new report says. Unlike other carbohydrates, the main sweetener in beverages — high-fructose corn syrup — does not spur production of insulin to make the body "process" calories. It also does not spur leptin, a substance that helps moderate appetite. For these reasons, beverages are not as satisfying as foods containing similar amounts of calories and fly under the radar of the body's normal weight-regulating mechanisms, many nutrition experts say.”
Fructose is also the usual sweetener in juices unless they are labeled “unsweetened”.
As an example, drinking just three 32 ounce bottles of Coca-Cola™ per day will provide 1350 calories and 300 gm of fructose sugar. Remember a teaspoon of sugar contains 5 gm of sucrose. And your average calorie requirement to maintain your weight is only about 10 calories per pound per day.
drBob
Extra Sugar Means Extra Pounds
A recent article in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition points the finger at extra sugar creating extra pounds for Americans. One can of regular soda pop per day can increase your weight 15 pounds per year.
MSNBC reported the findings in an excellent piece at this link
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14247852/
The following quote from this article revealed something I didn’t realize about fructose -
“About one-third of all carbohydrate calories in the American diet come from added sweeteners, and beverages account for about half of this amount, the new report says. Unlike other carbohydrates, the main sweetener in beverages — high-fructose corn syrup — does not spur production of insulin to make the body "process" calories. It also does not spur leptin, a substance that helps moderate appetite. For these reasons, beverages are not as satisfying as foods containing similar amounts of calories and fly under the radar of the body's normal weight-regulating mechanisms, many nutrition experts say.”
Fructose is also the usual sweetener in juices unless they are labeled “unsweetened”.
As an example, drinking just three 32 ounce bottles of Coca-Cola™ per day will provide 1350 calories and 300 gm of fructose sugar. Remember a teaspoon of sugar contains 5 gm of sucrose. And your average calorie requirement to maintain your weight is only about 10 calories per pound per day.
drBob