SUGAR Content of Everyday Foods to AVOID!

If you are a diabetic, you may not realize just how much hidden sugar there really is lurking in items on your grocer's shelf. Here is a partial list of actual sugar content of processed foods and drinks:

How much sugar is in your breakfast cereal?

*(per 100 grams)

Froot Loops are said to contain 105 times more sugar than Shredded Wheat.

• Alpen - 5.75 teaspoons of sugar
• Cheerios - 1 teaspoon of sugar
• Corn Flakes - 2.4 teaspoons of sugar
• Cocoa Krispies - 9.75 teaspoons of sugar
• Froot Loops - 10.5 teaspoons of sugar
• Raisin Bran - 7.75 teaspoons of sugar
• Frosted Flakes - 8.75 teaspoons of sugar
• Honey Smacks - 14 teaspoons of sugar
• Rice Krispies - 2.5 teaspoons of sugar
• Special K - 3 teaspoons of sugar
• Wheaties - 3.75 teaspoons of sugar
• Trix - 8 teaspoons of sugar
• Lucky Charms - 9 teaspoons of sugar
• Rice Chex - 2 teaspoons of sugar
• Wheat Chex - 2.5 teaspoons of sugar
• Corn Chex - 2.75 teaspoons of sugar
• Honey Nut Cheerios - 8.25 teaspoons of sugar
• Reese's Puffs - 8.75 teaspoons of sugar
• Golden Grahams - 8.75 teaspoons of sugar
• Cocoa Puffs - 9.25 teaspoons of sugar
• Cookie Crisp - 8.75 teaspoons of sugar
• Shredded Wheat - 0.1 teaspoons of sugar
• Cocoa Pebbles - 9 teaspoons of sugar
• Banana Nut Crunch - 4.5 teaspoons of sugar.

Hooked on soft drinks ?

• Coca cola (one can) - 8.25 teaspoons of sugar
• Pepsi cola (one can) - 8.75 teaspoons of sugar
• Red Bull (one can) - 6.9 teaspoons of sugar
• Sprite (one can) - 8.25 teaspoons of sugar
• Mountain Dew (one can) - 11.5 teaspoons of sugar
• Old Jamaica Ginger Beer (one can) - 13 teaspoons of sugar.

Can't Pass up chocolate ?

• Snickers bar (52.7g) - 6.75 teaspoons of sugar
• Milk chocolate bar (44g) - 5.75 teaspoons of sugar
• Milky Way bar (58g) - 8.75 teaspoons of sugar
• 3 Musketeers bar (60g) - 10 teaspoons of sugar
• Butterfinger bar (60g) - 7 teaspoons of sugar
• Dove chocolate bar (40.8g) - 5.5 teaspoons of sugar
• Hershey's Milk Chocolate bar (43g) - 6 teaspoons of sugar
• Twix bar (50.7g) - 6 teaspoons of sugar

SEE the following link for the complete article:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/262978.php

MY ADVICE:

Get off as many processed, packaged foods as you possibly can. Eat Quaker Oatmeal (NOT the individual packets), with blue berries added, and extra virgin coconut oil, organic ground flax seeds for Omega 3's and fiber, and 1/2 cup of "Fiber One" cereal which has NO sugar, no trans fats, and apprx 14 grams of fiber per 1/2 cup. To that I add 4 or 5 red grapes, a packet of stevia in the raw and some  unsweetened Almond Milk.

Eat a BIG salad every day with as much variety in vegetables, fruit and greens as you want. You can have iceberg lettuce, romaine lettuce, carrots peas, beans, cucumbers, broccoli, radishes, tomatoes. seedless grapes, celery,kale, sliced raw onion (IF you can tolerate it), Brussels sprouts,  etc. etc. and go ahead and add some cut up cooked chicken, or cheese etc. for protein. Add your favorite dressing (READ the label for sugar content AND trans fats, hydrogenated oils etc. and enjoy.

Eat a LIGHT dinner and don't eat again the last two hours before you go to bed.

Set an appointment with your doctor or specialist and have a blood lipid profile run, your official weight taken, your blood pressure etc. and let him or her know you are making changes in your life. You want to lose weight, avoid type 2 diabetes if you don't already have it or your A1C is border line.

Haven't been to the gym since high school? NO problemo. You don't need it. Start walking every day for 30 min at a brisk pace (or work up to that goal if you can't walk fast or that far).

Begin to do some stretching exercises, abdominal crunches, push ups if you can or dumb bell exercises starting with 10 lb dumb bells.

DO SOMETHING!

Losing weight is NOT a mystery. Eat less, eat better and exercise more.

YOU CAN DO IT!

God Bless,

Dan

Matthew 11:28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

SUGAR - Is Killing Us

Here are some facts to consider in regards to type 2 diabetes:

HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) starting being added to foods in the early 1970's

The number of Type 2 diabetics in America has doubled in the last 30 years...SEE any correlation here?????

SUCROSE or table sugar , is composed of equal amounts of glucose and fructose, the latter being the kind of sugar you find naturally in fruit.
High Fructose Corn Syrup is also a mixture of fructose and glucose with about 55%  (fructose) and 45% (glucose)  in soft drinks. Although glucose is metabolized by the cells all through your body, FRUCTOSE IS PROCESSED PRIMARILY IN THE LIVER.

Therefore if you eat too much too quickly in forms such as soft drinks, and candy, your liver breaks down the fructose and produces fats called triglycerides. Any guesstimates on how many teaspoons of sugar are in a typical fountain cola drink at a fast food restaurant?

Take a LOOK:

Eight teaspoons of sugar sounds like a lot, right? It is. A typical 16-ounce bottle of soda has 44 grams sugar, or about 11 teaspoons. Interestingly, the USDA notes that retail soda (the stuff you buy in the can at the store) has more sugar than the fountain soda you get from fast food restaurants since (they're served with ice that takes up some space in the cup).

NO, that doesn't make the sodas in fast food restaurants HEALTHY.

Here's the sugar and calorie content for a cup of soda from a typical fountain:

• 12-ounce cup (child size): 23 grams sugar and 95 calories
• 16-ounce cup (small): 31 grams sugar and 128 calories
• 21-ounce cup (medium): 44 grams sugar and 180 calories
• 32-ounce cup (large): 65 grams sugar and 267 calories

In 1980 there were 153 million Type 2 Diabetics in the USA

In 2013 there were 347 million Type 2 Diabetics in the USA

The average American consumes approximately 22.7 teaspoons of sugar daily.

Concerning Blood Pressure, I found this interesting:

1900 - 5% of the population had high blood pressure

2013 - 33% of the American public have high blood pressure

The more sugar you consume in all its forms, the more your tissues become progressively insulin RESISTANT, and the harder your pancreas works trying to pour out MORE INSULIN which over time becomes less effective and the deadly cycle continues.

Is it any wonder that approximately 1/3 of Americans meet the statistical criteria for "Metabolic Syndrome". Metabolic syndrome brings obesity, especially around the waist, which ultimately leads to Type 2 Diabetes.

Type 2 diabetics then take the attitude that they can still eat and/or drink anything they want to and just get hooked up with an insulin meter pump and forget about diet and exercise. After a while they realize it takes more and more insulin to control their glucose levels and it is a downhill spiral.

You need to EAT LESS, EXERCISE MORE, and avoid sugar in all its many forms. Stay away from simple empty calorie carb's including but not limited to:

Pies, cakes, candy, pudding, cookies. muffins, breads, biscuits, doughnuts, MOST store bought breakfast cereals, etc. etc.

EAT more fresh organic fruits and vegetables, and pencil in time for a 30 minute brisk walk every day.

SUGAR IS KILLING YOU and ONLY YOU can STOP EATING IT.

"When someone is lost, aimless and adrift,
Take the time, give'em a lift.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery,
But today, YOU can be their gift"

Dan