‘Added Sugar’ And Your Weight Gain

Study Finds High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury

If you are concerned about weight gain its important that you read labels for added sugar. High-fructose corn syrup (now also called corn sugar) is in so many packaged foods that it can be difficult at times to find a product without it. Studies have shown that high-fructose corn syrup contains mercury. I remember my surprise when I discovered the horseradish I was using contained corn syrup. Slender For Life™ weight loss hypnosis clients learn the importance of reading labels. In fact, once most Slender For Life™ soon stop buying packaged foods and only buy real food that looks like God made it – without the additives. There are so many inexpensive, quick and simple ways to prepare delicious plant based meals that the need for packaged foods with added sugar is eliminated.

‘Added Sugar’ May Add to Weight Gain in U.S.

March 24, 2011, WebMD Health News: Research shows that as consumption of added sugars has increased, so too, have body weights. Added sugars are sugars in foods that aren’t naturally occurring. They’re mixed in as sugar or syrups during processing or preparation.

The sugar in fruit, fructose, for example, wouldn’t count as an added sugar. But the high-fructose corn syrup that’s added to some kinds of fruit cocktail would fall into that category. So would sugars added to sweeten yogurt, soft drinks, and processed snacks and desserts like cookies, cakes, and pies.

The study was presented at the American Heart Association’s Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism/Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention 2011 Scientific Sessions.

Over 27 years since 1980, consumption of added sugars increased for all ages and both sexes. In the latest survey, which was conducted from 2007 to 2009, for example, men were getting about 15% of their total daily calories from added sugars, nearly 40% more than was reported in the study’s first survey, which ran from 1980 to 1982. Among women, added sugar intake rose from about 10% to about 13% over that same time period. At the same time, BMIs climbed along with sugar consumption.

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Cutting out the added sugar can help you achieve your weight loss goals. You really can make healthy, inexpensive, quick and easy meals that taste really great based on vegetables, whole grains and fruit. Do yourself and your family a healthy favor and make your meals and snacks plant-based food. Weight loss hypnosis can help you make make end your desires for sugar.

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