if you reduce refined sugar from your diet, it will benefit you because, in today’s world, we tend to consume lots of refined sugar. Before entering the details, we need to know the difference betweenadded’ and ‘natural’
Prachi Shah, Clinical Nutritionist and Consultation Nutritionist, the founder of Health Habitat explained, “A simple example to find out the difference- the sweetness in apples is a natural sugar form when the same apple is juiced, converted into jam/jelly and packaged will contain sugar ‘added’. The sugar added can be in syrup, chocolate, candy, cola, ice cream, cakes, bread etc. “Prachi said that they gave nothing but additional calories without nutrition.
Further explaining, Prachi said, “First, let’s throw away my myth. If you are someone who plans to release additional sugar then you need to know that replacing refined sugar with jaggery, brown sugar, artificial sweeteners, coconut sugar, dates etc. is not the healthiest way. More or less this sugar has the same calories in fact they can be worse for you if you continue to add more and more on the name of ‘health’.
Slowly and gradually reduce portions. For example- if you add 1 teaspoon sugar to your coffee, try to gradually reduce it to ½ teaspoon. If you cut it overnight, you might not be able to maintain it.
Avoid artificial sweeteners because they tend to deceive your body to think that it is actually a sugar that might intensify desires so it is difficult to be completely independent of sugar.
Learn and read nutrition labels. You will be surprised to find out how many hidden sugar names are listed in the list of ingredients.
Finally, to answer your question, reducing the added sugar must be useful. If you want to be an independent sugar, go ahead but always remember it is better to choose the path you think you can maintain throughout your life. The best way is to record additional sugar in a day and not beyond that. Sometimes you can.