Nutrition facts: Good, bad, and ugly

Subject: Nutrition facts: Good, bad, and ugly December 8th 2007, 4:54 pm

Added sweeteners

http://www.revolutionhealth.com/healthy-living/food-nutrition/food-basics/facts/sucrose-fructose?s_kwcid=sweeteners|911863494

Tips for cutting down your sweetener consumption

Drink lots of water.
Choose beverages with no (or few) calories. Alternatives to regular soft drinks include plain or flavored seltzer water with no added sweeteners, and unsweetened (or very lightly sweetened) coffee or tea.
Try to limit yourself to no more than one sweetened beverage per day - including no-cal soft drinks.
If you drink sugar-sweetened beverages, tell yourself there's a piper to be paid. You need to eat less and exercise more to offset the beverage habit.
Avoid so-called juice drinks, which are generally sugar-sweetened and have no redeeming nutritional value.
Drink real fruit juices. They've got lots of calories but also are nutritious. Dilute them a little to cut back on the calories if your weight is an issue.
Be a savvy consumer and read food labels. It's important not to fixate on avoiding sugar (sucrose). Although it's a big source of fructose - and calories - so are high-fructose corn syrup and fruit-juice concentrate. High-fructose corn syrup is used most heavily in soft drinks, but it's also found in many other products. "Natural" and low-fat foods often contain fruit-juice concentrates.
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