Sugar is 'the new tobacco': Health chiefs tell food giants to slash levels by a third

• Doctors and academics say levels must be reduced by up to 30 per cent
• They found that even zero-fat yoghurts can contain five teaspoons of sugar
• Heinz tomato soup has four while a Mars bar has eight teaspoons of sugar
• Obesity and diabetes already cost the UK over £5billion a year

Food giants are being told to cut the amount of sugar they use because it has become the ‘new tobacco’.

Doctors and academics say levels must be reduced by up to 30 per cent to halt a wave of disease and death.

They found that even zero-fat yoghurts can contain five teaspoons of sugar, while a can of Heinz tomato soup has four. 

Doctors and academics say levels must be reduced by up to 30 per cent to halt a wave of disease and death

The equivalent of 11 teaspoons are found in a small Starbucks caramel Frappuccino with whipped cream. A Mars bar has eight. To read more, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2536180/Sugar-new-tobacco-Health-chiefs-tell-food-giants-slash-levels-third.html