What can sweet tooth do to avoid diabetes and keep a healthy heart?

Ideally, we all wish ourselves health. But it is one thing to wish, another to act. And these actions are not so difficult. It is important to remember here that your full, full of various activities life is at stake.

First of all, doctors strongly recommend limiting your intake of free sugars. They should be no more than 10 percent of the total energy intake. According to recent research, this rule will help reduce the risk of developing cardiovascular disease, obesity, and caries. Experts emphasize that, limiting sweets in the diet, one should pay special attention to ready-made sweet drinks – today this is the main source of added sugar. Ideally, it is best to avoid them altogether.

You should be careful with energy and sports drinks, ready-to-drink tea and coffee, flavored milk drink.

What to do with a sweet tooth? There is an alternative – fresh fruits, dried fruits, nuts, honey. But here the main rule is not to overdo it.

You should also limit your sugar intake. The fact is that fast carbohydrates in the body are easily processed into dangerous fat. With the regular use of simple carbohydrates, the appearance of obesity, diabetes, metabolic syndrome associated with increased pressure, will not take long.

Nina DONSKIKH.

Photo by Yulia Smagrinskaya.

Based on materials “My House Moscow”