Sugar is sneaky. It's hidden in pretty much everything we consume. It changes our taste buds so that we only like things that are sweet and pushes our brain to want to overeat; it's addictive, messes with our hormones, and reduces our immunity (to name a few).
Which if these foods have sneaked their way into your diet? Did you know that an organic fruit on the bottom yogurt (dairy or non has just as much sugar as a serving of ice cream?) and most of us eat this for breakfast.
I'm not saying that all sugar is bad, but your tolerance of it depends on your body and overall metabolic health. If your overweight, obese, have prediabetes or type 2 diabetes, your tolerance is level is low and a high or even moderate sugar load won't do good things for your health.
A few things to be aware of:
1- To figure out how many grams of sugar are in an item, take total grams of Carbohydrate and divide by 4. So take a flavored yogurt that has 40 grams of carbs in a cup. 40/4= 10 teaspoons of su...