May 02, 2009

Scary: Sugar Quantities in Common Food & Drink

The imaginative campaigners at SugarStacks have illustrated the amount of sugar in popular beverages, breakfast foods, snacks and desserts. Here is a popular staff drink, using 4 gm sugar cubes as a measurement. Diabetes anyone?

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May 2, 2009 10:55:41 AM | Food and Drink, Health

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Graham Wegner

My personal favourite is the McDonald's thickshake - and check out the size of some of those other drinks!! Thanks for the link - great resource for talking healthy choices in my classroom.

Posted by: Graham Wegner | May 02, 2009 at 09:07 PM

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