Contents:
- Medical Video: Dr. Oz Explains How Much Sugar We Eat in a Day
- How much is the maximum sugar intake in a day?
- How do you control sugar intake per day?
- 1. Eat food in the original form
- 2. Check nutritional labels on packaged foods
- 3. Routinely check blood sugar
- 4. Apply a healthy lifestyle
Medical Video: Dr. Oz Explains How Much Sugar We Eat in a Day
Who doesn't like the sweetness of sugar? Sugar does have a sweet taste that makes food and drinks more delicious and delicious. But you have to remember, consuming excess sugar can risk your health, you know! Even so, no means you are prohibited from consuming sugar, it's just that you need to limit sugar intake per day.
How much is the maximum sugar intake in a day?
Sugar is one of the energy sources needed by humans. However, if excessive, sugar can cause you to be susceptible to health problems. Because the excess sugar intake per day not only triggers the increase in body weight quickly, but also can cause you to experience obesity which is the main cause of diabetes and heart disease.
Therefore, it is important for you to control sugar intake per day. The limit of consumption of sugar, salt and fat suggested by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia per person per day is 50 grams of sugar, equivalent to 5-9 teaspoons, 5 grams of salt or equivalent to 1 teaspoon, and 67 grams of fat or equivalent with 3 tablespoons of oil.
For those of you who routinely move and exercise may not need to worry because your body's system is able to burn many calories. But for those who have diabetes, you should really control the intake of sugar and carbohydrates so that your blood sugar levels are controlled.
How do you control sugar intake per day?
Here are some ways you can control sugar intake per day:
1. Eat food in the original form
The thing that needs to be considered to control sugar intake is by consuming food in its original form, not processed. Natural sugar is contained in food, especially fresh fruits. Therefore, by consuming fresh fruits you should not need sugar in processed form anymore. In addition, you also need to balance sugar intake from protein or fat.
2. Check nutritional labels on packaged foods
When you eat packaged foods, don't forget to check the nutritional value label to find out what carbohydrate and sugar content is. The sugar content can be seen on the packaging by paying attention to words that have the suffixes 'osa' or 'ol', such as glucose, fructose, dextrose, maltose, sucrose, lactose, mannitol, and sorbitol in packaged processed foods.
3. Routinely check blood sugar
Another thing you can do to control sugar intake per day is by routinely checking blood sugar. Because this helps you know how the body reacts to certain foods so that the body is able to make adjustments to eating food or drugs later.
4. Apply a healthy lifestyle
In addition to the three ways mentioned above, you can also make lifestyle changes by adopting a healthy lifestyle. Starting from routine exercise, controlling the portion of food, adequate rest, controlling stress, and so forth.
You can also avoid foods based on their scale of interest, such as avoiding soft drinks, fruit juices added with sugar, candy, cakes, canned fruit and dried fruit. It's good to use natural sweeteners like cinnamon, almond, vanilla, ginger, honey and lemon extract to make food recipes.
