Cut down on sugar to prevent weight gain

Consuming sugar will cause your calorie count to increase and often you may be having more sugar than you can account for. You may remember how many spoonfuls you added to your two cups of tea of coffee during the day, but just how much did you take in from other food sources?

Read labels

It is important to read food labels so that you can make yourself more aware as to whether certain food products (especially the ones that you tend to consume regularly!) contain traces of sugar or not.

Words to lookout for

Apart from the word ‘sugar’, keep a lookout for the following words ‘fruit juice concentrate, glucose, cane sugar, fructose, dextrose, dextrin, raisin syrup, brown rice syrup, barley malt, galactose, lactose, corn sweetener, corn syrup, maltose as well as sucrose’.

Dr. DeSMaisons, Ph.D., president and CEO of Radiant recovery, a treatment programme for alcoholism, drug addiction and other types of compulsive behaviour, in New Mexico says that we should not be afraid about never having sugar again. Rather start with making one healthy choice at a time.

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