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Here are some healthy heart tips to ensure you are keeping an eye on your sugar intake. Sugar Recommendations • Consuming too much sugar in your diet can lead to weight gain and becoming overweight or obese. • ‘Free sugars’ are sugars that are added to foods as a avour enhancement or to act as a preservative (increasing shelflife of products). is is the type of sugars that adults and children in the UK need to cut down on. • e government recommends that free sugars should not make up more than 5% of the energy you get from food and drink each day. is means: Age - Maximum free sugar/day 4 to 6 years - 19g 7 to 10 years - 24g Adults - 30g Tips to reduce sugar intake • Choose products that are labelled ‘no added sugar’ or ‘no sugars’. • Reduce consumption of sweets treats such as cakes, biscuits, and sweets. • Swap out canned fruit in syrup for fresh fruit. • Switch sugary breakfast cereals for unsweetened cereal and add fresh fruit for sweetness. 22.5g of sugars per 100g) - Green = low (less than or equal to 5g of sugar per 100g). Ingredient list: Watch out for these names which may suggest there are added free sugars: • Glucose • Xylose • Treacle • Honey • Dextrose • Sucrose • Sugar (palm, raw, beet, brown) • Cane juice • Fructose Being aware of the amount of sugar in di erent foods & drinks and following these healthy tips can reduce your sugar intake and consequently, lower your risk of developing health complications such as heart disease! To help keep your heart healthy, why not try out some of our Healthy Heart recipes from our website: www. heartresearch.org.uk/heart-research-uk-recipes-2 Or have a look through our Healthy Heart cookbook lled with recipes from top chefs, celebrities and food bloggers: www.heartresearch.org.uk/heart-research-uk-cookbook HEALTHY HEART TIPS: SUGAR AWARENESS by the Health Promotion and Education Team at Heart Research UK • Swap sugary drinks for water, sugar-free or diet alternatives. • Limit fruit juices and smoothies to 150ml a day. • Cut down on sugar in hot drinks or try adding sweetener instead. Checking Labels Nutritional labels can help you reduce your intake of free sugars. e ‘of which sugars’ gure on the nutrition labels (part of the carbohydrate information) will help you understand the amount of sugar. Labels on the front of the packaging use a tra c light system to distinguish the amount of sugar in a product: - Red = high (more than 22.5g of total sugars per 100g) - Amber = medium (more than 5g but less than or equal to transplants, it’s more important than ever to register your organ donation decision and make it known to your family and friends. We urge all family members of all ages to take a moment this Organ Donation Week to register and share your decision.” To nd out more and register your decision, visit www. n h s . u k / n h s - app or the NHS Organ Donor Register at www. o r g andona t i on . nhs.uk. e NHS App now has more than 30 million sign-ups and its use could also have a life-saving impact, with hundreds of thousands of new donors registering their decision for the rst time via the app in the last year. e total number of organ donation decisions registered for the rst time through the NHS App has increased by 69% in a year – with a rise from 265,000 last September to 448,000 in August 2022. Since September 2021, 183,000 new organ donation decisions have been registered via the NHS App. Overall, organ donation preferences have been managed 3.7 million times through the app. Registering a preference on organ donation helps NHS specialist nurses to quickly understand people’s wishes, which can ultimately save lives. Susie Day, NHS Digital Director of Delivery, NHS App said: “Millions of people are continuing to use the NHS App to take control of their healthcare directly from their phone or the NHS website, with over 30 million signups now recorded. It’s great to see rising numbers of people using the app to register and manage their organ donation decisions and we encourage everyone, if they haven’t already done so, to record this important decision through the app or online.” NHS Director for Transformation Dr Tim Ferris said: “We are transforming the NHS App into a front door for the NHS, so the millions of people currently using it can set their organ donation preferences but also do much more to manage their health and access services.” Anthony Clarkson, Director of Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation for NHS Blood and Transplant said: “Every day across the UK there are thousands of patients and their families, waiting for that all important lifesaving call. Yet, this is often only possible as a result of another family receiving some of the hardest news they might ever have to hear. With the increase in the number of people waiting for Milestone Hit with Over 30 million NHS App Sign-ups and Almost 450K New Organ Donation Decisions
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