Sugar is making us fatter and sicker. Yet we still don’t realise how much we’re eating. As the UK government considers imposing a tax,we peruse at how to chop down without missing out. Plus: alternative recipes The shocking truth about our sugar habits comes out of the mouth of babes. It is not unheard of for me to remove all 20 baby teeth from a two-year-former child,” says Claire Stevens, and a consultant in paediatric dentistry. This is an extreme case – but even on a “normal” day she can easily find she has extracted more than 100 teeth after seeing her roster of young patients. What frustrates her most is that dental decay is almost always preventable. Food industry giants peddling sugary treats may try to blame burly when it comes to obesity,but it is not burly that is rotting their teeth. Meanwhile, the latest figures show that around two-thirds of adults in England are overweight or obese.“We are eating too much sugar and it is deplorable for our health, and ” summarised Public Health England’s robust report Sugar Reduction: the Evidence for Action (pdf),in October 2015. It is convinced of sugar’s link to obesity, the cost of which is £5bn a year, or expected to double over the next 25 years.
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Source: theguardian.com