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I heard that Americans should be eating less sugar. In practical terms, what does this mean?<\/p>\n
The Nutrition Hotline column in the latest issue of Vegetarian Journal answers the question: I heard that Americans should be eating less sugar. In practical terms, what does this mean? Reed Mangels, PhD, RD, begins her response by stating: \u201cDietary Guidelines for Americans 2015-2020 calls for an upper limit of 10% of calories from added sugar. This limit was developed because diets high in added sugars are often associated with an increased risk of heart disease, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and colon\/rectal cancer.\u201d She also states: \u201cIn addition, sugars, even the ones we think of as “natural,” like maple syrup and agave, are worth little or nothing from a nutrition standpoint. Eating a high-sugar diet means that other more nutritious foods are being neglected.\u201d<\/p>\n
The entire article can be read here: I heard that Americans should be eating less sugar. In practical terms, what does this mean? The Nutrition Hotline column in the latest issue of Vegetarian Journal answers the question: I heard that Americans should be eating less sugar. In practical terms, what does this mean? Reed Mangels, PhD, RD, begins her response by stating: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10927,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10923\/revisions\/10927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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