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Sugar Overload

Oct 14, 2024
Sugar Overload
The trouble with sugar is that we are eating too much of it! We talk about it, we say we are cutting it back, limiting the intake, or finding a replacement, yet the consumption of sugar in the past 20 years has escalated from 10kg per person per year up to 50kg per person, per year.

The trouble with sugar is that we are eating too much of it! We talk about it, we say we are cutting it back, limiting the intake, or finding a replacement, yet the consumption of sugar in the past 20 years has escalated from 10kg per person per year up to 50kg per person, per year.

Recently, medical scientists finally established the link between child obesity and fizzy drinks. The product link is listed below under artificial sweetners. New Zealand currently, has one of the highest rates of child obesity for a developed country. Just to give you an idea of the sugar content in commonly consumed drinks, coke has 10 teaspoons of sugar per 12oz can, lemonade seven teaspoons of sugar, and sports drinks up to 20 teaspoons of sugar.

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