New sugar limits can be breached by a bar of chocolate

New proposed recommendations to tackle Britain's love of sugar will mean one bar of chocolate will take many people over their daily limit

A single bar of chocolate, three yogurts or a fizzy drink would take the average person over proposed daily sugar limits announced by scientific advisers to the Government. The recommendations halve current limits, meaning that the average woman should have no more than five to six teaspoons (25g) of sugar a day, and seven to eight teaspoons (35g) for men.

Scientific advisers to Government signalled a war on sugar with draft recommendations that would require radical changes to the British diet. Read more:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10929296/New-sugar-limits-can-be-breached-by-a-bar-of-chocolate.html

The hell of giving up sugar (and why it's worth all the agony in the end): We're endlessly told sugar is the new nicotine.

• Despite a seemingly healthy lifestyle Nicole Mowbray couldn't shift her extra weight; then she realised her diet was saturated with sugar
• Too much sugar can lead to heart problems and increased cancer risk
• Nicole found after one day of going cold turkey on sugar she had severe head pain, nausea, aching limbs and flu-like symptoms
• However, two years later she has come out the other side slimmer, healthier and happier than before

No one can have escaped this year’s shocking sugar headlines: more addictive than tobacco, more dangerous than alcohol, more fattening than fat.

Countless column inches have been devoted to telling us exactly why — and how — we should be cutting back on sugar, hidden in almost everything we eat.Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2658488/The-hell-giving-sugar-worth-agony-end-Were-endlessly-told-sugar-new-nicotine-Now-witty-revealing-new-memoir-describes-hard-quit.html

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