Counselor's Corner - Avoiding Insidious Sugars

This month's tip comes from our counseling team in Palo Alto.

(Wednesday, September 06, 2006) - Sugar is added to a wide variety of foods these days, not just cookies and cakes where you'd expect to find it, but also in soups, breads, salad dressings and other unexpected places. Since avoiding hidden sugars is one of the keys to losing weight and keeping it off, always check the nutrition facts panel on food label for sugar. The fewer grams of sugar, the better, so compare brands of similar products.

If it helps you to visualize how much sugar is in an item, realize there are 4 grams of sugar in one measured teaspoon. So, a can of soda with 40 grams of sugar per serving is the equivalent of putting 10 teaspoons of sugar in your Hint water! Knowing this conversion can really help you keep "hidden" sugar out of your diet. Next time you are at the grocery store check out the labels of the most popular brands of salad dressing, jam, peanut butter, ketchup, or breakfast cereal. You will see how quickly the sugars can add up!

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