Hold up your sugar…

By: admin | Tags: | Comments: 0 | Março 14th, 2013

Sweet Easter is soon to come. We are being tempted by a huge amount of almonds and chocolates that wave at us from the pastry shop windows and supermarket shelves.

Dressed in all shapes and colours these are sweets that, besides being a delicacy carry with them ancient family traditions that induce you to taste them.

Sugar in small quantities is part of a healthy diet. After all, fruit is sweet and contains fructose. The sugar we have to be aware of is the refined one.

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Sweet Easter is soon to come. We are being tempted by a huge amount of almonds and chocolates that wave at us from the pastry shop windows and supermarket shelves. Dressed in all shapes and colours these are sweets that, besides being a delicacy carry with them ancient family traditions that induce you to taste them.

Sugar in small quantities is part of a healthy diet. After all, fruit is sweet and contains fructose. The sugar we have to be aware of is the refined one, the one currently known as white sugar, used to sweeten coffee and other drinks, and also used in pastry and cookies.

We should remember that there are many instantly made dishes, frozen or fresh, that contain sugar. All together added up leads to a very high sugar ingestion.

Sugar is highly caloric, leading to excessive body weight, but also to the presence of glycemia which is no other but the presence of sugar in the blood. This leads to a pressure on the pancreas that has to over function to produce insulin, the compound that has to balance the amount of sugar in the lood.

Therefore be moderate when ingesting sugar and prevent children from overeating pastry and sweets.