Here are some names (other than sugar, including brown sugar and raw sugar) to look for on ingredient labels: corn sweetener, corn syrup, dextrose, fructose, fruit juice concentrates, glucose, high-fructose corn syrup, honey, invert sugar, lactose, maltose, malt syrup, molasses and sucrose. Remember, the higher an ingredient is the list, the more of it is in the food. Read the label and you’ll probably find that a single tablespoon has 3 grams of sugar. Sports drinks, barbecue sauce, mayonnaise, pork and beans, pasta sauces and salad dressing all contain sugar unless they specify they’re sugar-free. Why would sugar be in these foods? To balance acidic or salty flavours -- and to make you crave them more. Making your own condiments, salad dressing and tomato-based pasta sauces will give you control over ingredients like sugar. Theyll taste better, too! Soda and other sweetened drinks deliver -- get this -- one-third of all added sugar Americans consume. Every 12-ounce can of your favourite sweet soda has about 135 calories and 10 teaspoons of sugar, usually in the form of high-fructose corn syrup. If you drink just one can a day, by the end of the year youll have sipped 32 pounds of sugar and more than 49,000 calories! Thats bad news if you have MS, since all that sugar can kick-start inflammation and make it hard to maintain your weight. That can worsen pain and fatigue. Get off the hard stuff and go with a sugar-free version. Better still? Switch to water.
Posted on: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 12:40:00 +0000