Sugar – it’s everywhere.
Whether it's hiding in your pasta sauces, or all over the pages of your newspapers, it’s the 21st century's favourite food villain.
And the distaste for the sweet stuff is only getting stronger, with campaigns to introduce a sugar tax to charities aiming to expose the real amount of sugar in our daily diets – like our morning coffee fix.
Most of us unwittingly eat more than our rfair share of the sweet stuff, with many children eating as much as three times the daily recommend allowance of sugar.
So how can we cut down our day-to-day intake without making drastic (translate: unrealistic) changes?
Nutritionist Helen Money – who’s currently working with BarleyCupto launch a campaign to help people #cutsugar within 30 days – has offered some top tips to helping us all cut down on the stuff.
She said: “With too much sugar linked to type 2-diabetes, obesity, heart disease, some types of cancer and tooth decay, cutting sugar is rightly a top priority for many people this year.
“ To help those confused by all the information out here, we’ve compiled our top tips and hints to help you to cut your added sugar intake by 30% in just 30 days,”
So here we go…
Top tips for cutting back on sugar:
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