{"id":14304,"date":"2018-03-07T16:59:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T08:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/server1.webstudio.com.sg\/~staging\/ypsg\/?p=14304"},"modified":"2018-03-19T16:06:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T08:06:59","slug":"added-sugar-average-singaporean-one-day-results-pretty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server1.webstudio.com.sg\/~staging\/ypsg\/added-sugar-average-singaporean-one-day-results-pretty\/","title":{"rendered":"We Added Up All The Sugar An Average Singaporean Has In One Day. Results Were Pretty Shocking."},"content":{"rendered":"

Only the best of us can stave off the sweet, sweet pleasures of sugar. Sounds easy?<\/p>\n

Perhaps you’re forgetting that apart from a lack of glazed donuts, it also involves many of what\u2019s deemed healthy or sugarless – fruit juices and sambal alike.<\/p>\n

In fact, the Health Promotion Board (HPB) says a bowl of Mee Siam contains 10 teaspoons of sugar, twice as much as a bowl of Mango Sago dessert does.<\/p>\n

Source.<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

An increasingly health conscious world has led to sugar receiving the bashing instead of fat -primarily because of how it\u2019s peskily addictive and flavour-potential.<\/p>\n

In 2017 National Day Rally, Lee Hsien Loong called for nationwide efforts to reduce the number of diabetics in Singapore – a stumping one in every nine people, compared to a global average of two in every 25 people.<\/p>\n

This comes as surprise, given that rice is Singapore\u2019s staple as much as it is Asia\u2019s. Arguably, Singapore derives less of a reliance on bread and noodles than its neighbours do, but we’ll save that for another time.<\/p>\n

Source.<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Do we really deserve to have our favourite drinks with circles of doom (the big red ones that read: \u201cLess Sweet\u201d) stamped on them?<\/p>\n

To find the answer, we take a shot at tracking Singaporeans\u2019 consumption of sugar.<\/p>\n

The conditions of our experiment imbibes the lifestyle of the average working adult in Singapore, who find most of their daily meals at hawker centres, because \u2018basic\u2019 is more comforting, and also because one meal of \u2018organic\u2019 could hurt a man\u2019s wallet so bad – he might as well never have learnt how to fish.<\/p>\n

Our Sweet, Possibly Sugar-Coated Conditions<\/h2>\n

The subject for this experiment, 30-year-old Ryan, was chosen based on the consumption habits of Singaporeans who work desk jobs, the people who take the largest brunt from their diets.<\/p>\n

Ryan\u2019s a writer, who spends his time-pressed weekends cooking and playing Dungeons and Dragons with his friends. He lives a relatively sedentary lifestyle and is a stellar example of the short-term, day-to-day impact that sugar can have on your body without external influences.<\/p>\n

A firm advocate of life\u2019s simplest pleasures, Ryan engages in weight-training for strength and personal protection, but don\u2019t bother with cardiovascular exercises.<\/p>\n

Ryan, representative of the average Singaporean for this experiment.<\/p><\/div>\n

To execute our little study, I keep in close contact with Ryan, tracking his every chew and swallow for a full week – a week that he says is somewhat not \u201chappening\u201d and therefore the best representative of an uneventful, non-feastful week.<\/p>\n

I make sure that he drinks the recommended amount of water required for his weight so that our results aren\u2019t slowed by delays in metabolism.<\/p>\n

I also take observations on how Ryan feels after meals, allowing for the drawing of comparisons within the effects of meals with varying amounts of sugar, also explaining the effects that sugar can have on one\u2019s body.<\/p>\n

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Based on HPB\u2019s calculations for the average human being who consumes 2000 calories, added sugar should not make more than 10% of a diet. This means that everything above the range of 40-55 grams of sugar daily is in excess.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, this isn\u2019t an ideal range.<\/p>\n

World Health Organisation suggests that the percentage for ideal bodily functions stands at 5%, at about 25 grams daily. That\u2019s about 6 teaspoons of sugar.<\/p>\n

Only added sugars are counted here, so this excludes the increase in blood glucose levels that a starchy meal would give you. All measurements counted are from MyFitnessPal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Unless otherwise stated, serving sizes refer to one, of the medium that the item is usually served in. For instance, \u201cChicken Rice\u201d refers to one plate of Chicken Rice, and \u201csoda\u201d refers to one cup of soda.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what Ryan ate, over the course of one week.<\/p>\n

Monday<\/strong><\/h2>\n

After a relaxing weekend, Ryan scrambles to beat the Monday blues and skips breakfast, the ever-recurring mistake that we all make. He heads to the coffee shop below his workplace for a relaxing lunch.<\/p>\n

After work, he fixes himself a quick, therapy meal for dinner.<\/p>\n

There is nothing that Ryan loves quite like Chicken Rice. Source.<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Lunch: Hainanese Chicken Rice with hot Milo<\/p>\n