Sugar on top: Cut the sweetener for a healthy change
Sugar, the sweet-tasting, undeniably delicious food product has a lot to answer for. Although sugar is relatively harmless in small doses, the health problems that come with consuming too much of it – as Western countries surely do – can be serious. Studies show that New Zealand adults consume, on average, a staggering 37 teaspoons of sugar per day, almost six times the recommended amount. And people are eating more of it. Another recent study links pandemic stress to binge-eating…