Answer:
Dear
Robert,
You should
eat 62.5 grams of sugar every day for a nutritional requirement
of 2500 calories/day.
Nutritional
Requirements (for age 19-59) are about 2500 calories /day.
Carbohydrate:
2500 calories / 4 cal/gram = 625 grams carbohydrate.
From
these grams of carbohydrate a day, 10% could come from sugars.
If you
eat 625 grams of carbohydrate each day, then up to 62.5 grams could
come from sugars.
Just
one apple and one orange a day would have 30 grams.
125 grams
of apples (1 cup, quartered or chopped), raw, with skin have 13 grams
of sugar.
180 grams
of oranges (1 cup, sections), raw, all commercial varieties have 17
grams of sugar.
There
is no requirement for sugar, but there is a minimum requirement
for total carbohydrate, which is 130 grams/day for male and female.
Sugar
is 100-percent carbohydrate.
Consuming
too much sugar can contribute to obesity, but unlike fat and sodium,
there is no recommended daily value for sugars.
Eating
too much sugar is part of an addictive cycle. When you eat sugar,
it's quickly digested and burned, and it causes peaks and valleys
in your energy. Reports persuasively connect obesity to sugar.
Experts
address sugar issue with direct injunctions like "Avoid too much
sugar."
Most
people think that eating too much sugar because diabetes, this is
not true. Diabetes is not caused by eating sugar.
Too much
sugar in a child's diet can contribute to weight and dental problems.
Eating too much sugar can also contribute to arterial damage.
Recent
studies have shown that too much sugar may actually lower a person's
"good" cholesterol, making him more prone to having a heart
attack or stroke.
Eating
too much fructose and glucose can turn off the gene that regulates
the levels of active testosterone and estrogen in the body, shows
a new study.
