Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN)– Despite the importance of nourishing the body, some people avoid a healthy diet.. Therefore, it is necessary to maintain proper nutrition by reducing the amount of sugar consumed.
The Emirates Foundation for Health Services, through its official account on the “Instagram” website, stated that added sugars can lead to health problems if consumed in large quantities.
The most prominent of these problems are: being overweight (obesity), type 2 diabetes, and heart disease.
The Emirates Foundation for Health Services advises the need to reduce the consumption of sugar.
How?
It is important to avoid consuming calorie-dense drinks, and to drink water instead.
Care must be taken to eat healthy foods such as fruits, fresh vegetables, brown rice, beans, fish, and lentils.
You can also eat nuts, low-fat cheese, low-sodium crunchy chips and veggies with dips, or yogurt with fresh fruit.
Added sugars are those that are added to foods or drinks when they are processed or prepared. And the US Centers for Disease Control and Control, through its official website, stated that natural sugars such as those found in fruit or milk are not considered added sugars.
Added sugars are named differently, and include brown sugar, cane juice, corn syrup, dextrose, fructose, fruit nectar, glucose, high-fructose corn syrup, honey, lactose, malt syrup, maltose, maple syrup, molasses, raw sugar, and sucrose.