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Welcome back to the Dr. Gundry Podcast. This week I have another episode of my all new series where I share quick and easy life-changing tips to optimize your health.

To break your sweet tooth addiction, all right? You heard me say it over and over again, but it bears repeating. Sugar is incredibly dangerous and even worse, it's highly addictive.

In fact, the average American eats 153 pounds of sugar every year, whether they know it or not. That's a lot of sugar.

Ready for another fun fact? You know this. Sugar is highly addictive and believe me, I know how hard it can be to kick a sugar addiction.

I'm someone who could go through a two-pound bag of peanut M&Ms in a single city. I know how addicting sugar can be.

That's why today I'm going to teach you how to kick your sugar addiction in just four easy steps. All right, step one. You've got to know where sugar is hiding.

These days, sugar is everywhere and it's no wonder people are addicted. They don't even know they're consuming it.

That's why I recommend you memorize the different names that sugar can go by, such as brown rice, syrup, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, glucose, fructose, agave.

These are all code words for sugar and it gets worse. Maple syrup, honey, all natural cane sugar, somehow that's different.

So next time you're at the grocery store, make sure to check for those names on the label.

Or better, yeah, if you're looking at a label, you probably should put it back because a packaged food most likely is going to have sugar in one form or another well hidden on that label.

All right, step two. Here's another label trick. Don't look for sugar on the label. It's purposely misleading.

These were changed, these label laws were changed by the federal government during the Reagan administration because the Department of Agriculture realized that their business is to protect agricultural products.

And make sure agricultural products were being consumed. So the amount of sugar on a label is well hidden.

Now recently the label laws were changed to put added sugar as a separate ingredient. But that's not there to make you aware of how much sugar is added. That's to distract you again.

So don't look at sugar. Don't look at add and sugar. Now naturally, if you see a lot of sugar in both of those run, but where it's hiding is under total carbohydrates.

So look at total carbohydrates per serving size and serving sizes are getting smaller and smaller to fool you about how much sugar is actually in that package.

Take total carbohydrates. The next line down is fiber. Fiber is indigestible so it doesn't count against carbohydrates.

So you subtract the fiber from total carbohydrates. That number that you get is actually the grams of sugar in that serving size.

Now grams don't mean a lot to people, particularly in the United States. So here's the easy equation that I've talked about and written about.

There are four grams of carbohydrate in one teaspoon of sugar. So take that number of total carbohydrates that you got.

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