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The sugar spike at Christmas

​A new video by the University of Warwick highlights a bitter side to our sugar consumption at Christmas.

Available to view online https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=IDKj-0vvFeg, a short film highlights how excessive consumption of sugar can affect our health – and how the sugar trade in the past and today has caused inequality and bloodshed.

Brits eat too much sugar, on average 10 per cent of our daily calories come from sugar which is equivalent to 60g per day.

However, WHO guidelines state that adults should eat no more than of 30g of sugar a day which is just five per cent of our daily calorific intake.

The type of sugars most adults and children in the UK eat too much of are free sugars. These are any sugars added to food or drinks and include sugars in biscuits, chocolate, flavoured yoghurts, breakfast cereals and fizzy drinks.

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