Salt and Sugar

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Salt and Sugar
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What is good about salt?

• Preserves the quality of food
• Cheap
• Improves taste of foods

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What is bad about salt?

• Contributes to high blood pressure
• Causes water retention
• Can contribute to heart disease
• Deceiving very difficult to tell how much salt
  is in food because the taste can be masked by
  sugar and other additives

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Minimum and Maximum Requirements

• Minimum 200mg1/10 teaspoon (almost none)
• Maximum 2400 mg 1 1/5 teaspoon
• Average American consumes 5000 mg per day
• Why so much?
• We eat a lot of packaged foods and restaurant
  foods

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Types of Sugar

• Fructose- fruit
• Dextrose- liquid, food additive form
• Lactose- dairy contains calcium, vitamin A
• Maltose- sugar in most grain
• Sucrose- (empty calories)- processed table
  sugar
• Glucose- type of sugar that most food molecules
  are converted into to circulate in the blood

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What is good about sugar?

• Energy- fuel for the body, 4 calories per gram
• Preserves quality
• Helps keep food from drying out
• Lowers the freezing point of foods
• Enhances the appearance of food
• Cheap
• Improves taste

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What is bad about sugar?

• No nutritional value in many sugars
• Energy rush, but a quick drop from processed
  sugar
• Tooth decay
• Can lead to diabetes
• Contributes to heart disease
• Obesity
• Lowers your immune systems ability to function

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Sugar Consumption

• Sugar consumption has increased over 75 since TV
  
• We are bombarded with sugar advertisements
• Food service industry uses it as a preservative
  and quality enhancer
• Hard to find packaged foods that do not have
  sugar added
• So many different names can make labeling hard to
  understand
• Most people really enjoy sweet tastes

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Brain Fuel Article

• In order to respond to the final paragraph
  question, you need to review some information
• The three dietary guidelines
• Stay within your calorie needs
• Be more active
• Make wise food choices

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• The Food Guide Pyramid promotes these nutritional
  principles
• Make ½ of your daily calorie intake from quality
  carbohydrates sources like whole grains, fruits
  and vegetables
• Limit fat and sugar in your daily diet
• Current Popular Diet Trends
• Limit all carbohydrates
• Consume lots of protein, no matter what the fat
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