4 sugar cubes in a bowl of cereal flakes, 6 and a half sugars in 5 chocolate snacks, 3 and a half sugars in a strawberry yoghurt: the instagram account @dealerdesucre reveals in photos the amount of sugar present in our daily foods. And we have to admit that the photos hit the mark and that we will probably think twice before falling for three strawberry punnets as a snack or to accompany lunch with a can of soda!
Contacted by the site of Huffington Postthe person who launched this Instagram account explains his approach: “I don’t have any particular talent, apart from a taste for information and new media. Healthy food is also one of my centers of interest. This is how this project was born”.
But there is no question of posing as a lesson giver: “My message is not to say that we must stop eating sugar, nor to campaign against it. That’s not my role. My point is simply to say: consume sugar, why not, but in full awareness of what we consume.”
In the captions of the photos, the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) regarding sugar consumption are specified each time. In his new nutritional recommendationsthe WHO would like adults and children to reduce their sugar consumption to 10% of their daily energy intake, in order to reduce the risk of overweight, obesity and cavities. An important issue because non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, the cancer or heart disease is the cause of 16 million premature deaths each year worldwide.
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