The followings facts provided by the Health Minister Malaysia may be of your interests (The Sun, 22 March 2010).
The percentage of overweight adults increased from 16% in 1996 to 29% in 2006.
World Health Organisation and Malaysian Diet Guide recommendation: consume not more than 50g or 10% of the energy need.
Reality: Malaysian adults consume a staggering 51g or seven teaspoons of sugar just in their drinks everyday. This is not in addition to sugar used in sweet delicacies, porridge, cakes, ice cream, chocolates and bread spreads which we eat daily.
One needed to climb 14 floors to burn 20 calories contained in one teaspoon of sugar.
If we take 7 teaspoons of sugar that supplies 140 calories of energy per day, we have to walk up 98 floors to burn the total calories.
The Malaysian government just started a six-month Reduce Sugar Consumption Campaign 2010.
Do you belong to the category of obese persons?
If you do, you may like to do something to reduce your sugar consumption.
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