What is the sugar free diet?
The goal of a sugar free diet is for people to significantly reduce the amount of sugar they consume. The main idea behind the diet is that sugar is both harmful and addictive. Advocates of the sugar free diet make a wide range of claims about the health benefits of going sugar free including; reducing levels of fatigue, reducing hunger pains, improved mood and mental focus, reducing headaches, increasing memory, rapid weight loss, and the preventing of many diseases and cancers.1 People who support this diet can be broken into two main groups. The first group support a version of the sugar free diet in which restrictions are placed on all foods containing sugar. These restrictions apply to both sugars that are added during the preparation of food and …show more content…
Guideline three recommends that people try to limit how much saturated fats, salt, added sugars and alcohol they consume. The guidelines refer to these foods as discretionary choices that can be included into a health diet but only in small amounts. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has also recommended reducing that amount of added sugar that people consume over their lifetime. The WHO's recommendations focus on sugar in people diet, as consuming high levels of added sugar has been linked to poor overall diets, higher risks of obesity and noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes and heart diseases.2 WHO recommends that adults should eat less than 25 grams of added sugar a day which is just 6 teaspoons. They have found that this low level of sugar intake provides many health benefits.3 The Australian Bureau of Statistics has found that the average amount of added sugars people are consumes per day in Australia is 14 teaspoons.4 This means that the average Australian is eating more than twice the amount of added sugar than the WHO has recommended in order to maintain
The goal of a sugar free diet is for people to significantly reduce the amount of sugar they consume. The main idea behind the diet is that sugar is both harmful and addictive. Advocates of the sugar free diet make a wide range of claims about the health benefits of going sugar free including; reducing levels of fatigue, reducing hunger pains, improved mood and mental focus, reducing headaches, increasing memory, rapid weight loss, and the preventing of many diseases and cancers.1 People who support this diet can be broken into two main groups. The first group support a version of the sugar free diet in which restrictions are placed on all foods containing sugar. These restrictions apply to both sugars that are added during the preparation of food and …show more content…
Guideline three recommends that people try to limit how much saturated fats, salt, added sugars and alcohol they consume. The guidelines refer to these foods as discretionary choices that can be included into a health diet but only in small amounts. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has also recommended reducing that amount of added sugar that people consume over their lifetime. The WHO's recommendations focus on sugar in people diet, as consuming high levels of added sugar has been linked to poor overall diets, higher risks of obesity and noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes and heart diseases.2 WHO recommends that adults should eat less than 25 grams of added sugar a day which is just 6 teaspoons. They have found that this low level of sugar intake provides many health benefits.3 The Australian Bureau of Statistics has found that the average amount of added sugars people are consumes per day in Australia is 14 teaspoons.4 This means that the average Australian is eating more than twice the amount of added sugar than the WHO has recommended in order to maintain