How Much Sugar Is Recommended Per Day? By now, American exceptionalism is a universally- accepted truism. Like dogs over cats and Star Wars over Star Trek, it’s simple fact that America is qualitatively different than other nations. Some would say “superior,” but I think modesty is more becoming of a nation of our stature, providence, and history. Why else would extraterrestrials decide to land on the White House lawn, as they do in every culturally relevant piece of sci- fi, if we weren’t exceptional? Would American parents. If you go to a place like Germany or the UK and flip over a package of Haribo Goldb. Point being: everyone else? We have no upper limit on sugar. And when it comes to added sugar, it’s a total free for all. It’s not even listed. Researchers are still uncovering the mechanisms, but it appears that. The confluence of high- fructose corn syrup subsidies, kids filling up Super Big Gulp cups with Slurpee when the clerk’s not looking, and Wilford Brimley diabetes commercials have converged to create a morphogenetic field of extreme sugar tolerance. Whether it’s a developing fetus or a South Asian migrant, the morphogenetic field envelops and affects everyone within. In fact, there’s no such thing as “excessive sugar consumption” in the United States. It’s quite literally impossible to ever reach or even approach the recommended daily limit for added sugar intake because the limit doesn’t exist, physiologically, for Americans. Just flip over that package of Oreos and look at the nutritional label for yourself. American exceptionalism, indeed. Pure Leaf Peach Tea contains 46 grams of sugar per bottle while their lemon variety. 100 calories per day (25 grams or 6. Some people can handle a little bit of sugar in their diet. 10 Disturbing Reasons Why Sugar is Bad. A further reduction to below 5% or roughly 25 grams (6 teaspoons) per day. WHO calls on countries to reduce sugars intake among. Most foods that contain carbohydrates are nutritious and are an important part of a healthy diet. I’m kidding, of course, about the resistance to the damaging effects of excess sugar consumption, but not about the most salient point: there’s no official limit for sugar consumption in the U. S. Well, since sugar’s not an essential nutrient, the Institute of Medicine hasn’t issued a recommended daily allowance (RDA) for it like they have for calcium, total carbs, fat, selenium and all other essential nutrients. They have, however, suggested people get no more than 2. You’d hope the premier health organization in a first- world nation of 3. They’re apparently happy as long as you “only” eat about a quarter of your calories as pure white sugar. It wasn’t always like this. For all its inadequacies, the 1. US Food Pyramid (remember that?) did suggest no more than 1. PDF). That sounds fairly high to most of you eating Primally, but hey: at least they recommended a limit (and at least it was less than 2. Most other governments and health agencies (even the ones in the US) recommend. In 2. 00. 2, the World Health Organization polled European countries (PDF) with dietary guidelines: Many countries. India suggests 1. Things are moving in the right direction. Just as the people have become more aware of the potential dangers of added sugar, bureaucrats are following suit: The World Health Organization recommends people obtain no more than 5% of daily calories from added sugar. That’s about 6 teaspoons or 2. They’re urging countries to follow suit. A group of health researchers, though, has recently called on the NHS to halve that. Even in the US, the recent nutritional panel that recommended the USDA drop the warnings on dietary cholesterol also suggested they implement a suggested limit of 1. As of now, the USDA hasn’t made any changes, choosing to lump added sugar in with “solid fats” (which is as weird a combination as I’ve ever seen) and suggesting we obtain no more than 5- 1. The American Heart. For women, it’s 6 teaspoons. The American Diabetes. That includes: Any sugar used to make baked goods, candy, chocolate, desserts. 25 grams, of added sugars per day for. The shocking truth about how much sugar you. Recommended Grams of Sugar Per Day. Americans consume 10 times more added sugar than any other. What Are the Benefits of Cutting Sugar from Your Diet?? Added Sugar in the Diet. Any sugar used to make sauces, dressings, and condiments. Honey, HFCS, molasses, agave nectar, white sugar, brown sugar, and any other isolated sugar (I’d say foods like honey and molasses have different metabolic effects than other sugars, but they. And that’s only if you stick to a 2. Few people are actually eating 2. They’re sitting around. They aren’t using glycogen. They’re walking around (sub- 2. And added sugar has very different metabolic effects in a hypercaloric sedentary person with overstocked glycogen . A liver’s a liver’s a liver. Simply eating more calories doesn’t mean you can safely handle more sugar, nor does it mean your liver suddenly has more metabolic machinery to process and store the fructose as glycogen. If anything, eating higher calorie diets makes you more susceptible to the ravages of sugar, because it then becomes. Even the most diehard “anti- fructose alarmist” skeptics will say that the only reason sugar becomes dangerous is when its in excess. Well, folks: sugar is often in excess of calories. I hate to say it, but it’s true. Just look at the global numbers. America sits atop the pack with 1. Looks like we’re taking the IOM’s recommendations to heart. Germany’s next with 1. The Netherlands does 1. Ireland follows with 9. The bottom five are Ukraine, China, Indonesia, Israel, and India with 1. Judging from this study of sugar intake, diabetes, and obesity in India, I’m not sure how reliable any of these figures are, though. If we take the numbers at face value, just 2. I’m curious to hear your thoughts, everyone. Sugar has experienced a bit of a renaissance of sorts in the health community’s consciousness. While I agree that freaking out over a little sugar in your coffee is crazy, and fruit and even honey and other unrefined sources of sugar can be healthy parts of a reasonable diet, I worry about the unrestricted and flagrant use of sugar. Prefer listening to reading? Get an audio recording of this blog post, and subscribe to the Primal Blueprint Podcast on i. 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