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How much sugar do you think you consume in an average year?

Now I did another video on this topic, but I wanted to emphasize a couple additional

points.

Now depending on your age, if you're between one and a half years old to three, you consume

about 36 grams of added sugar per day.

That comes out to nine teaspoons of sugar every single day.

If you're a teenager, you consume about 74 grams, that's 18.5 teaspoons per day.

That's added sugar.

If you're a little bit older, maybe you have a little less than this.

Now the American Diabetes Association said that if you are between ages of two and 18,

you need to be consuming less than 25 grams of sugar every day.

That's six teaspoons of sugar every single day.

So you want to keep your sugar under six teaspoons of added sugar.

Well guess what guys, this is way too high, especially since the average person does not

understand that all carbohydrates turn into sugar in the body, except fiber as in the

fiber in vegetables, which is not very sweet.

So if you're consuming vegetables, it's not going to spike your blood sugars, but all

these other foods will.

And I'm talking about the breads, the pasta, the cereal, the crackers, the biscuits, the

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