How many grams of sugar a day is healthy?!


Question: How many grams of sugar a day is healthy.?
if i'm on a 1200 calorie (minimum) diet, how many grams of sugar a day is healthy.?Health Question & Answer


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At 1,200 cal / day diet. Try to use healthy sugar substance like Xylitol ( Mannitol ) instead of real sugar, because of the vast difference in caloric counts. Sugar is included in the total carb, if you are on 1,200 cal diet .? 180 grams of total carb a day. By using the low carb like Xylitol you don't have to sacrifice as much on good carb or protein intake.Health Question & Answer

here is the answer 1st sugar is a refine sources of carbs so let's forget what every news and gym tells you and deal with the biochem.
if you are on a 1200 cal diet you need to break that into three groups.
amino acids (what most call protein)
fats
sugars (what most call carbs as that is what they are absorbed as)

most clinics say that for a diabetic to be healthy which if anyone wants to be healthy they will use this breakdown you want less than 30% from amino acids, less than 30% from fat the rest carb regardless of type.
amino acids have 4cals/ gram
fats have 9cals/ gram
sugars have 4 cal/gram
as you are on a 1200 cal diet you need at least 40% from sugars and carbs combined that would mean a total of 480 cals from sugar a day which translates to a total of 120 grams a day in either carb or pure sugar a 12oz coke has about 60g (the split it 30 sugar 30 carbs but its the same thing which is half of your day's requirements and you still dont have any of the fats and proteins.
I did not go into vitamins or fiber requirementsHealth Question & Answer

76 Ways Sugar Can Ruin Your Health


In addition to throwing off the body's homeostasis, excess sugar may result in a number of other significant consequences. The following is a listing of some of sugar's metabolic consequences from a variety of medical journals and other scientific publications.

Sugar can suppress your immune system and impair your defenses against infectious disease.

Sugar upsets the mineral relationships in your body: causes chromium and copper deficiencies and interferes with absorption of calcium and magnesium.

Sugar can cause can cause a rapid rise of adrenaline, hyperactivity, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and crankiness in children.

Sugar can produce a significant rise in total cholesterol, triglycerides and bad cholesterol and a decrease in good cholesterol.

Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function.

Sugar feeds cancer cells and has been connected with the development of cancer of the breast, ovaries, prostate, rectum, pancreas, biliary tract, lung, gallbladder and stomach.

Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose and can cause reactive hypoglycemia.

Sugar can weaken eyesight.

Sugar can cause many problems with the gastrointestinal tract including: an acidic digestive tract, indigestion, malabsorption in patients with functional bowel disease, increased risk of Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis.

Sugar can cause premature aging.

Sugar can lead to alcoholism.

Sugar can cause your saliva to become acidic, tooth decay, and periodontal disease.

Sugar contributes to obesity.

Sugar can cause autoimmune diseases such as: arthritis, asthma, multiple sclerosis.

Sugar greatly assists the uncontrolled growth of Candida Albicans (yeast infections)

Sugar can cause gallstones.

Sugar can cause appendicitis.

Sugar can cause hemorrhoids.

Sugar can cause varicose veins.

Sugar can elevate glucose and insulin responses in oral contraceptive users.

Sugar can contribute to osteoporosis.

Sugar can cause a decrease in your insulin sensitivity thereby causing an abnormally high insulin levels and eventually diabetes.

Sugar can lower your Vitamin E levels.

Sugar can increase your systolic blood pressure.

Sugar can cause drowsiness and decreased activity in children.

High sugar intake increases advanced glycation end products (AGEs)(Sugar molecules attaching to and thereby damaging proteins in the body).

Sugar can interfere with your absorption of protein.

Sugar causes food allergies.

Sugar can cause toxemia during pregnancy.

Sugar can contribute to eczema in children.

Sugar can cause atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.

Sugar can impair the structure of your DNA.

Sugar can change the structure of protein and cause a permanent alteration of the way the proteins act in your body.

Sugar can make your skin age by changing the structure of collagen.

Sugar can cause cataracts and nearsightedness.

Sugar can cause emphysema.

High sugar intake can impair the physiological homeostasis of many systems in your body.

Sugar lowers the ability of enzymes to function.

Sugar intake is higher in people with Parkinson's disease.

Sugar can increase the size of your liver by making your liver cells divide and it can increase the amount of liver fat.

Sugar can increase kidney size and produce pathological changes in the kidney such as the formation of kidney stones.

Sugar can damage your pancreas.

Sugar can increase your body's fluid retention.

Sugar is enemy #1 of your bowel movement.

Sugar can compromise the lining of your capillaries.

Sugar can make your tendons more brittle.

Sugar can cause headaches, including migraines.

Sugar can reduce the learning capacity, adversely affect school children's grades and cause learning disorders.

Sugar can cause an increase in delta, alpha, and theta brain waves which can alter your mind's ability to think clearly.

Sugar can cause depression.

Sugar can increase your risk of gout.

Sugar can increase your risk of Alzheimer's disease.

Sugar can cause hormonal imbalances such as: increasing estrogen in men, exacerbating PMS, and decreasing growth hormone.

Sugar can lead to dizziness.

Diets high in sugar will increase free radicals and oxidative stress.

High sucrose diets of subjects with peripheral vascular disease significantly increases platelet adhesion.

High sugar consumption of pregnant adolescents can lead to substantial decrease in gestation duration and is associated with a twofold increased risk for delivering a small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infant.

Sugar is an addictive substance.

Sugar can be intoxicating, similar to alcohol.

Sugar given to premature babies can affect the amount of carbon dioxide they produce.

Decrease in sugar intake can increase emotional stability.

Your body changes sugar into 2 to 5 times more fat in the bloodstream than it does starch.

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