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Avoiding high-sugar snacks helps to cut
hidden calories, save teeth from decay
By STEPHANIE GROGAN
KARA HOSACK
Special to The Battalion
Students can be consumed by
calorie counting in their quests to
lose weight. But hidden calories
can be hard to find.
One way to avoid calories is to
avoid too much sugar. Sugar has
calories for energy, but it also
means extra pounds.
To avoid excessive sugars, use
less of all sugars, including white
sugar, brown sugar, raw sugar,
honey and syrups. Other hints in
clude:
• Eat fewer foods that contain
these sugars, like candy, soft
drinks, ice cream, cakes and coo
kies.
• Read food labels for clues on
sugar content. If the names su
crose, glucose, maltose, dextrose,
lactose, fructose or syrups appear
first on the label, then there is a
large amount of sugar in the
food.
Another factor to remember is
dietary sugar. This is the hidden
sugar that most people do not re
alize they consume, which in in
prepared food. Some examples
you might not be aware of in
clude:
• 1 hamburger bun — 3 tsp.
sugar
• 12 oz. soft drink — 7 tsp.
• 1 glazed donut — 6 tsp.
• I piece of iced chocolate
cake—10 tsp.
• 1/2 cup sherbert — 9 tsp.
Can you wean your sweet
tooth? Most of us are aware of
tooth decay from eating too much
sugar. This hazard ideals with
how long the sugar stays in con
tact with your teeth. On-the-go
students often snack on sticky
candy or soft drinks all night
long. These may be more harm
ful than adding sugar to your
morning cup of coffee, at least as
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far as your teeth are concerned.
So, cut down on high sugar
snacks to cut calories and to pre
vent tooth decay.
An alternative to sugar today
includes artificial sweeteners cur
rently on the market: aspertame
and saccharin. Aspartame, also
known as NutraSweet®, has the
same caloric value of sugar, which
is four calories per gram, but it is
180 times sweeter. Therefore,
you need very little for the same
sweetening effect.
On the other hand, your body
does not metabolize saccharin, so
it takes in no calories. The ques
tion then is, “Can I consume too
much artificial sweetener?”
The World Health Organiza
tion has set an acceptable intake
of 40 milligrams of aspartame per
kilogram of body weight, which is
equivalent to approximately 12
cans of diet soda per day or 62
packets of Equal®. The recom
mended maximum daily intake of
saccharin is two and a half milli
grams per kilogram of body
weight, which is approximately
three-and-a-half packets of
Sweet’N’Low®.
A calorie comparison of prod
ucts made with sugar and made
with artificial sweeteners looks
like this:
• carbonated soft drink (six
oz.) — 78 calories from sugar/1 ca
lorie from artificial sweeteners
• lemonade — 86 from
sugar/5 from artificial sweeteners
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81 from sugar/10 from artife
sweeteners
Whatever sweetener you
choose, consider the total amoun:
you consume. Avoid too much.
If you have questions abou:
ways to avoid too much sugar
please visit the MUNCCHexhib
at Sbisa today from 12:15 to 2:15
p.m. Stop by and visit with m
about dietary guidelines and your
food choices.
Nutrition stuJim
Kara Hosack and Stephanie Grogan m
helping Texas A&M students make wji
food choices. Their MUNCCH progm
(Making Ultimate Nutrition Choices ii,
College Housing) is a nutrition educadm
series of table posters, fliers and eihik
on dietary guidelines.
Take the suga
challenge
Test your sugar knowledy
with these trivia questions.
1. Does a tablespoon of hont
have more calories and carbob
drate content than a tablesp:
of granulated sugar? Than p
dered sugar?
2. If you drink one 12 oz. sort
with sugar every day in excessi
your energy needs, how longw
it take before you gain an extr?
pound?
3. Can reading labels on prod
ucts give a clue to how mucho:
each ingredient is contained ii
the product?
Answers:
1. Yes, honey has more caloric
and carbohydrates than one ti!
blespoon of sugar. Sixty-fon:
compared to 46 for granulate:
sugar or 31 for powdered sugar
2. 20 days.
3. Yes, labels list their ingre
dients in the order of their ptt
cent content. The first ingredie:
listed is contained in the large
amount.
Missing records
may cover up
Iraqi connect!
HOUSTON (AP) — Business
cords at a bankrupt company repc:
edly were destroyed to conceal c
with an Iraqi financier accused of:
volvement in the development of.;
Libyan chemical weapons plant.
The records at IBI Industries:
legedly were destroyed late at niffl
last month, the Houston Chronic
reported Monday. Ed Durante, IBI
senior vice president, contacted!
U.S. Customs Service after learnr
about the incident.
Sources who asked to rent
anonymous confirmed that Durar
named the individuals he belie'
are responsible for destroying®
office, t
records at the Houston
Chronicle said.
Men associated with the businf
allegedly destroyed the records in
effort to prevent the disclosure of:
volvement of the now-decea'
Iraqi, Dr. Ihsan Barbouti, and his
dest son, Haidar, in the activities
IBI and other companies, :
sources said.
The documents are suspected
being related to illicit trade with'
bya.
Thomas Herter, an attorney a
company director representing If
denied during a bankruptcy hean
that any records were destroyed.
On Sunday, Herter said the
must have been a misunderstand!'
He said he directed an accouni'
and a helper to preserve IBI
cords.
Destroying or concealing »
pany records after a bankruptcy
ing is a federal offense.
U.S. officials last year identic
Barbouti as designer of a Lib'
chemical weapons plant.
some
eration.
Last month, a Houston-ba*
Customs investigation led to the*
zure of $3.8 million from NewL
City and Miami banks on eroib
that Ihsan Barbouti allegedly 4
aircraft parts to Libya in violation'
a U.S. embargo.
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