AHA on sugar: where have you been?

I bet you must be shocked with The American Heart Association's revelation...cut back on the added sugars!

In a statement issued Monday, the organization says most women should limit their sugar intake to 100 calories, or about six teaspoons, a day; for men, the recommendation is 150 calories, or nine teaspoons.

Whoah, go out on limb there guys.

This is the first time the heart association has suggested specific limits. The recommendations apply only to what are known as added sugars—those that are added to foods during manufacturing, or by consumers.

Added sugars "offer no nutritional value other than calories to the diet," the AHA said. "The majority of Americans could reduce their risk of heart disease by achieving healthy weight and the evidence is fairly clear that reducing the amount of sugars can help with that."

While it is going out on a limb for this ultra-conservative organization to make we what we consider very ordinary suggestions, they are way too late to the party. They could have made a real impression twenty or thirty years ago.

Steve