Hamburg – Who wants to live a healthy life, should include, according to the world health organization (WHO), a maximum of ten percent of his daily calories in the Form of sugar. Even better is to reduce the free sugar equal to five per cent, to a maximum of 25 grams per day, according to a new Directive. That’s the equivalent of about six teaspoons per day.
As a critical, free sugar to all the sugar that is added to foods and drinks as well as sugar, the juices naturally present in honey, syrup, fruit and fruit juice concentrates is occurred is included.
The new guidelines, which were released on Wednesday in Geneva, to help to stop the global obesity epidemic. More and more people bring too many Kilos on the scales and thus Suffer an increased risk for diseases such as Diabetes and cardiovascular.
Ketchup: A tablespoon of sauce, a teaspoon of sugar
“We have good scientific evidence that a proportion of the free sugars of less than ten percent of the reduced energy intake, the risk for Overweight, obesity and tooth decay,” says a WHO expert Francesco Branca.
This is different from the sugar that is naturally in fruits, vegetables and milk. In connection with his consumer researchers have not been able to demonstrate no negative consequences. According to the new recommendations, a restriction in the case is not necessary.
Instead, the WHO warns especially against the so-called hidden sugars: A majority of the lot, the one receiving the day-to-day, was in processed food, which would not be regarded as sweet, says in a press release.
As an example, you called the Ketchup: In a tablespoon of the tomato sauce, about a teaspoon of sugar – a sixth of the recommended daily ration is. Even more critical lemonades are. Alone, a glass of coke (250 milliliters) contains 27 grams more sugar than you should consume in a day.
DGE: of teeth benefit, the figure is just maybe
The current WHO recommendations are not entirely new, however, you have to be aggravated. A group of experts had already fallen in 1989, to reduce the proportion of free sugars to ten percent of the daily energy intake, about 50 grams per day. New is the advice to reduce the intake of even five percent, if at all possible, however.
The German nutrition society (DGE), the WHO recommendations critically. The scientific evidence is not sufficient for a connection between obesity and sugar intake are still. The replacement of sugar with other carbohydrates with the same amount of calories has not led in the studies, the participants decreases, criticized in a comment to the draft of the WHO recommendations.
Clearly, the study was able to the risk of soft drinks, writes the DGE. Also, the connection between tooth decay and a frequent consumption of sweetened foods was demonstrated by studies.
Damage would, it would, in any case, if a lot of people on a daily basis, a little sugar to save, on the contrary. In Germany, the average citizen consumes about 36 kilograms of sugar per year. That’s the equivalent of just under a hundred grams per day – far more, as well as the DGE recommends.
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