Recent studies have found that sugar is playing a massive part in the UK’s obesity problems. Sugar has lots of calories and has no nutritional value at all. With many of us consuming an alarming amount of it everyday, most of us don’t realise it’s hidden in many foods.
Consuming too much sugar can cause obesity and leads to many health problems such as diabetes and liver damage. Sugar can also affect your sleep, age your skin prematurely and affect your heart.
As lots of us are leading busy lives we end up eating processed foods and drink, as they are quick and simple to make. Here at our Chiropractor Southend we would like to share these tips on how to start eating a sugar free diet.
- Always check the label on foods. You should be looking for foods that have less than 5g per 100g of sugar. Also watch out for the words fructose, lactose and sucrose as they are all forms of sugar
- Stop adding sugar to tea, coffee, and cereals. You can get plenty of healthy sugars from fruit and complex carbohydrates such as wholegrain pasta
- Try to get as much exercise as you can, this will help burn off the sugar that you have consumed. 30 minutes is the recommended daily amount
- Try to ditch processed and pre-packaged foods. Even lots of shop pasta sauces contain up to eight teaspoons of sugar. Make your own, it is healthier and quick and easy to do
If you follow these tips, you could be on your way to a healthier, sugar free diet in no time!
If you are suffering from pain or if you have any other concerns please get in touch with us as we offer a lot of help and advice to get you back up and running as soon as possible. You can contact us at Cliffs Chiropractor Southend on 01702 430430.