Why you should track how much “added sugar” you are consuming 🧐 💭

Health Recommendations: The American Heart Association (AHA) recommends no more than:

• 25g (6 teaspoons) of added sugar per day for women.

• 36g (9 teaspoons) for men.

• 24g (6 teaspoons) for children.

-Empty Calories: Added sugars provide calories without essential nutrients like vitamins, fiber, or protein.

-Blood Sugar Spikes: Excess sugar can cause rapid blood sugar spikes and crashes, leading to fatigue, hunger, and cravings. Exactly why feeding kids cereal and other high sugar foods before school is a piss poor idea. And we wonder why they can’t focus??? 🙄

-Weight Gain & Health Issues: High added sugar intake is linked to obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and tooth decay. Hmm…wonder why obesity is at an all time high 🤔

-It’s Easy to Overconsume: Sugars sneak into foods like yogurt, cereal, sauces, and drinks — making it easy to go over the limit without realizing. Yes…sugar is a drug and you’ll keep wanting more and more.

Pay attention to what you’re putting in you and your children’s mouth.

Be the responsible parent!!

It’s ok to tell your kids “no” and give them limits on junk food!!!! 🤯