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Surveys have also found that the average American consumes around 22.2 teaspoons of added sugar every day. According to the new guidelines, we should really be eating a fraction of that amount. The recommended sugar intake for adult women is 5 teaspoons (20 grams) of sugar per day, for adult men, it’s 9 teaspoons (36 grams) daily, and for children, it's 3 teaspoons (12 grams) a day.
Reported by the American Heart Association.
Since reports like this seem to base everything on a 2000 cal. diet for women (ha - mine is 1400), the sugar intake should probably be adjusted also to 3/4 of the amount. 15 for me.
Then I want to see how much I am getting in food like bread & pasta.
today: 50 grams. Amazing. Mostly (31) in the yogurt. 9 in peanut butter.
Diet Calendar Entries for 26 June 2012:
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771 kcal
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Fat: 21.89g | Prot: 24.03g | Carb: 123.65g.
Lunch: bread, peter pan peanut butter with honey, coffee. Dinner: Brown rice. Snacks/Other: Publix fruit on the bottom dutch apple pie yogurt, Wild Garden Hummus Dip, watermelon. more...
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1507 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Desk Work - 3 hours, Resting - 11 hours and 5 minutes, Sleeping - 9 hours, Walking (slow) - 2/mph - 25 minutes, Standing - 30 minutes. more...
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