CrossFit Health Tip - How to Avoid Added Sugar PH234

Pursuing Health

Julie Foucher MD, MS

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 2 December 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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The average American consumes 57 lb of added sugar per year — not total sugar, but sugar that has been extracted and added into foods! This statistic seems shocking until you consider how many sneaky sources of added sugar show up in our diets: sauces, dressings, breads, granola bars, and more. These small amounts add up over time. To reduce the amount of added sugars you’re consuming, remember to check labels and be mindful of how small choices can add up over time.

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0:00.0	Hey there and welcome to Pursuing Health. I'm Dr. Julie Fouche, family physician and
0:09.1	former CrossFit Games athlete. Here is your bonus weekly CrossFit Health Tip, which
0:13.2	was originally published on CrossFit.com. Enjoy!
0:15.9	I'm here today with Nicole Christensen, who is the owner of CrossFit Roots, CrossFit
0:22.9	Level 4 Trainer, she's a seminar staff lowmaster, and also the director of the CrossFit Nutrition
0:28.3	Course. And we're going to talk about added sugar. So we're here at the CrossFit Nutrition
0:32.9	Course filming today, and one of the things that really struck our team was how much added
0:37.3	sugar the average American eats, 57 pounds of added sugar per year on average. It's a lot.
0:43.8	It is, it is a lot. Yeah, and I think one of the things that really we started to look through is
0:49.0	how do you get to 57 pounds of added sugar? And to start, we want to make sure we understand that
0:54.2	we're not talking about naturally occurring sugars that are contained in whole foods. We're
0:58.5	talking about sugar that is extracted and then added to whether it be added to fruit, added to
1:05.0	breads, added to even pasta sauce, that would be added sugar. Absolutely, and it's sneaky. It can
1:10.4	be in all kinds of sauces, soup or steak. It's important to check those labels to see what you're
1:15.2	getting. Yeah, and luckily the FDA now does require that foods with a food label do list out the
1:22.4	sugars, specifically what is added sugar. So you can get a very good number on how much added sugar
1:28.8	is in a food. And we actually just did this. So we looked at a bar that just happened to be here.
1:33.7	It was a, looked like a healthy bar. It was extracted as something that would be a healthy option.
1:38.2	But we checked that food label and it had 14 grams of added sugar. I think total 38 carbohydrates,
1:44.0	14 grams of added sugar. So how does that look like? Say I had that bar every single day for a year.
1:50.4	How is that contributing to those 57 pounds? Yeah, that was, well, you know how I love math. So
1:55.1	that was kind of fun. But so yeah, so if you ate one of those bars each day with those 14 grams of
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