If You Are Gaining Fat, Watch Sugar Intake: The intake of sugar has been growing in recent years to an exponential level, to the point, now moderate their consumption is recommended for health care agency, which besides sugar to sweeten, there is increasing with sugar products added that are included in the daily diet.
The essential problem of sugar consumption is that, this excess can be stored as fat and thus can promote weight gain, metabolic and cardiovascular diseases. So, unless we gain fat, look out sugar intake. In the daily diet, it is recommended that no more than 10% of total calories are provided by sugars, but the reality is that every time sweeten with sucrose and further more, intake of soft drinks and sweets is also high.
In America, the American Heart Association recommends reducing sugar intake drastically if we want health care agency, doubling and even tripling the daily recommendation. Then, we must remember that sugar not only adds empty calories, and therefore constitutes a food dispensable, however, the idea is not to eliminate sugar from the diet, but moderate their food intake and recognize those that are composed, mostly by simple sugars, because the excess as body fat accumulates.
