This Is How Much Sugar Could Kill You
What do 10.5 cups of sugar, 129 teaspoons of pepper, 24 tubes of toothpaste, 480 bananas and 11,000 oranges have in common?
According to this fascinating but rather macabre AsapSCIENCE video, they all have the potential to kill a human being if consumed all at once.
The viral clip by the popular YouTubers, entitled “This Much Will Kill You Pt. 2” (watch part one here), also expounds on other potentially deadly quantities. How hot or cold would it have to be to threaten human life, and how many X-rays could an individual endure?
Watch the video above to find out.
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Breakfast
You’ve heard that instant oatmeal can be high in sugar (and with “brown sugar” in the name, you know that there’s at least some sweet stuff in there), but this breakfast has the same amount of sugar you’d get from half of a bakery-bought brownie. Food for thought.
Lunch
- Two slices of whole wheat bread: 6 grams
- Two ounces of deli ham or honey smoked turkey: 2 grams
Lunch total: 8 grams
Even whole wheat bread can contain more sugar than you think, so be sure to read the nutrition facts before you put a loaf in your cart. As for the sandwich meat, anything honey smoked or honey roasted is best avoided—choose non-sweet roasted varieties instead to save at least a gram or two of sugar. If plain oven roasted ham or turkey doesn’t do it for you, try varieties packed with herbs and spices (like rosemary ham or cracked pepper turkey) for flavor with less sugar.
Snack
All those grams disappear if you choose an unsweetened version instead.
Dinner
Pasta sauce is one of those sneaky sugar sources we often talk about. Not all brands are high in the sweet stuff though, so check the label before you put it in your shopping cart. Or better yet, make your own.
Dessert
That’s just one cookie, and a relatively small one (about 2 inches across) at that! A cookie of our preferred size has more like 16.5 grams of sugar. Whoops.
TOTAL: 49.5 grams of added sugar
Breakfast
It’s tempting to pack down your brown sugar, but you’ll end up consuming much more, and you’re only fooling yourself.
Lunch
Using Italian dressing instead of higher sugar options like Russian dressing (7 grams per 2 tablespoons), French dressing (5.1 grams per 2 tablespoons), and honey mustard (7 grams per 2 tablespoons), is a smart way to cut sugar without feeling deprived.
Snack
Non-flavored yogurts tend to be lower in added sugar, as do full fat varieties (sugar can be added to low-fat versions to pump up the flavor). Granola can also be a sugar bomb, so be mindful of your portions.
Dinner
If you don’t have homemade sauce (we get it, making pasta sauce is a whole lot less convenient than opening a jar), try to cut back on your portion instead.
Dessert
Raspberries and blackberries are especially delicious here, plus they’re packed with antioxidants, which makes the whipped cream much easier to justify.
TOTAL: 24.96 grams of added sugar
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