How to reduce your sugar intake

Begin by replacing sugar in drinks with saccharin or aspartame. Drink low-calorie soft drinks. This means that you will get an immediate reduction in calorie intake without having to change your taste for sweet things.

Stop buying biscuits, sweets and chocolates, and choose fruit and vegetables _________. If you must have cakes, make your own, using half the quantity of sugar given in standard recipes.

Watch out for what you eat!

(Adapted from The Sunday Times ABC Diet and Body Plan)

GLOSSARY
intake – ingestão

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