Meryl Horn

Bottom line, if you're trying to decide what to put on your yogurt, should you pick honey over maple syrup or like brown sugar?

But is it, do you think because there's a little bit of evidence that maybe it's better for like certain things, it's worth it?

That's how you'll have to phrase it.

So, Rose, how does that make you feel about your honey?

Yeah, I mean, that brings us to this bigger question of like, overall, should we be feeling guilty about having some sugar in our lives?

Like, Kimber's sort of a stickler when she says, you know, you really shouldn't have any added sugar.

But other scientists are like, oh no, like a little is okay.

So like, let's look at what the World Health Organization says.

They focus on something called free sugar.

This is basically the sugar that's added to stuff.

And so they recommend that you don't have more than 10% of your total calories be made up of this sugar.

And research backs this up.

Like one big study I found looked at how much sugar people ate and then their risk of dying from cardiovascular disease.

And you can see the risk of death starting to creep up around this 10% mark.

Oh, risk of death.

Okay.

Can you give me something I can really sneak my teeth into?

Yeah.

So for someone who has 2,000 calories a day, that 10% comes out to 50 grams of sugar.

So for example, a can of Coke has about 40 grams of sugar in it.