Health and Fitness

For years The American Heart Association has made specific recommendations concerning fat intake. This is all in an effort to reduce Heart Disease. Now they have come out new recommendations… These recommendations concern sugar intake.

In the past The AHA has only advised to “minimize” sugar intake. The recent guidelines call for added sugar to be kept below specific levels, 25 grams per day for women, 37 grams per day for men, and 12 grams per day for children. This amounts to about 100, 148, and 48 calories respectively. Why the shift? Because it’s known that surplus sugar can be converted into surplus fat.

The USDA reports that the average per capita annual sugar consumption is 153 pounds. That amounts to about 189 grams per day, or 756 calories per day from sugar for each person living in the U.S. That would mean that each person in the U.S. is consuming the…