{"id":1504,"date":"2013-05-01T16:05:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T19:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2013-05-01T16:05:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T19:05:11","slug":"consumption-of-added-sugars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2013\/05\/01\/1504\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumption of Added Sugars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Increased consumption of added sugars, which are sweeteners added to processed and prepared foods, has been linked to a decrease in intake of essential micronutrients\u00a0and an increase in body weight. \u00a0The\u00a0<em>Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010\u00a0<\/em>recommends limiting total intake of discretionary calories, including both added sugars and solid fats, to 5%\u201315% per day. Recent analyses indicate that children and adolescents obtain approximately 16% of their total caloric intake from added sugars.<\/p>\n<p>NCHS has put out a new <a title=\"Consumption of Added Sugars Among U.S. Adults, 2005\u20132010\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db122.htm\">report<\/a> that presents results for consumption of added sugars among U.S. adults for 2005\u20132010.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key findings from the report:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Approximately 13% of adults&#8217; total caloric intakes came from added sugars between 2005 and 2010.<\/li>\n<li>The mean percentage of total calories from added sugars decreased with increasing age and increasing income.<\/li>\n<li>Non-Hispanic black men and women consumed a larger percentage of their total calories from added sugars than non-Hispanic white and Mexican-American men and women.<\/li>\n<li>More of the calories from added sugars came from foods rather than beverages.<\/li>\n<li>More of the calories from added sugars were consumed at home rather than away from home.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>COMMENT:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe somewhat counter-intuitive finding in this report is that most calories from added sugars come from foods rather than beverages.  However, other research has shown that when looking at individual items &#8211; either specific food items or specific beverages &#8211; regular sodas are the leading food source of added sugars for adults aged 18-54.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increased consumption of added sugars, which are sweeteners added to processed and prepared foods, has been linked to a decrease in intake of essential micronutrients\u00a0and an increase in body weight. \u00a0The\u00a0Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010\u00a0recommends limiting total intake of discretionary calories, including both added sugars and solid fats, to 5%\u201315% per day. Recent analyses indicate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50899],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}