I'm gonna toss something out of left field:
Cut your sugar intake.
Not just from sugary drinks. Â Look at the processed foods in your house. Â Did you know that most cans of soup - even healthy ones - have added sugar? They add excess sugar to things like bread (you do need some sugar for it to rise, but they add more than is needed), pasta (0 reason for sugar - no yeast in pasta!), peanut butter, ketchup, even tomato sauce. Â Pasta sauces almost always have added sugar, and so do most "diet" foods.
Try to cut out as much processed food from your diet as you can and watch your sugar intake. Â You're only supposed to have, at most, 9 teaspoons (37.5 grams) a day for men, or 6 teaspoons (25 grams) for women.
Edited to add: They don't always tell you it's Sugar either:
agave nectar
barley malt
beet sugar
blackstrap molasses
brown rice syrup
brown sugar
buttered sugar
cane juice crystals
cane juice
cane sugar
caramel
carob syrup
caster sugar (superfine sugar)
coconut sugar
corn sweetener
corn syrup
corn syrup solids
crystalline fructose
date sugar
demerara sugar
dextran
diastatic malt powder
diastase
ethyl maltol
evaporated cane juice
fructose
fruit juice concentrates
galactose
glucose
golden sugar
golden syrup
high-fructose corn syrup
honey
invert sugar (inverted sugar)
lactose
malt syrup
maltodextrin
maltose (malt sugar)
maple syrup
molasses syrup
muscovado sugar
organic raw sugar
oat syrup
panela (raspadura)
panocha (penuche or brown sugar fudge candy)
confectioner's sugar (powdered sugar/icing sugar)
rice bran syrup
rice syrup
sorghum
sorghum syrup
sucrose (table sugar)
sugar
syrup
treacle
tapioca syrup
turbinado sugar (raw sugar)
yellow sugar
As a rule of thumb, if it says "malt," has a suffix of "-ose," or includes the word "syrup," it's sugar.
Cut your sugar intake.
Not just from sugary drinks. Â Look at the processed foods in your house. Â Did you know that most cans of soup - even healthy ones - have added sugar? They add excess sugar to things like bread (you do need some sugar for it to rise, but they add more than is needed), pasta (0 reason for sugar - no yeast in pasta!), peanut butter, ketchup, even tomato sauce. Â Pasta sauces almost always have added sugar, and so do most "diet" foods.
Try to cut out as much processed food from your diet as you can and watch your sugar intake. Â You're only supposed to have, at most, 9 teaspoons (37.5 grams) a day for men, or 6 teaspoons (25 grams) for women.
Edited to add: They don't always tell you it's Sugar either:
agave nectar
barley malt
beet sugar
blackstrap molasses
brown rice syrup
brown sugar
buttered sugar
cane juice crystals
cane juice
cane sugar
caramel
carob syrup
caster sugar (superfine sugar)
coconut sugar
corn sweetener
corn syrup
corn syrup solids
crystalline fructose
date sugar
demerara sugar
dextran
diastatic malt powder
diastase
ethyl maltol
evaporated cane juice
fructose
fruit juice concentrates
galactose
glucose
golden sugar
golden syrup
high-fructose corn syrup
honey
invert sugar (inverted sugar)
lactose
malt syrup
maltodextrin
maltose (malt sugar)
maple syrup
molasses syrup
muscovado sugar
organic raw sugar
oat syrup
panela (raspadura)
panocha (penuche or brown sugar fudge candy)
confectioner's sugar (powdered sugar/icing sugar)
rice bran syrup
rice syrup
sorghum
sorghum syrup
sucrose (table sugar)
sugar
syrup
treacle
tapioca syrup
turbinado sugar (raw sugar)
yellow sugar
As a rule of thumb, if it says "malt," has a suffix of "-ose," or includes the word "syrup," it's sugar.
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