How much sugar is too much?

Probably less than you're currently eating. That's because it's hidden everywhere and adds up very quickly. The recommended sugar should not be more than 8 teaspoons per day of added sugar based on a 2,000 calories/day diet. That's 32 grams if you're reading labels, and about 6% of your total calories for the day. Sounds like a lot, but it's not. If you can stop taking directsugar at all it's very good from health point of view. We already get it almost in every food item.

I don't give my kids soda or juice. I try to limit their sweet intake and I rarely give them sugary cereal. If you are really worried about it you could limit their white carbs like white bread, white pasta, etc. There is never enough sugar for me though :) I am a sugar addict!

I'm a label reader and when I find it listed in the ingredients I go for the product with as little as possible. Can you believe that most brands of simpe beans have sugar added? Highly refined sugars in the forms of sucrose (table sugar), dextrose (corn sugar), and high-fructose corn syrup is every where. The average person consumes between 2 and 3 lb. per week. It slows the immune system down to a crawl. It feeds cancers, Simple sugars have been observed to aggravate asthma, move mood swings, provoke personality changes, muster mental illness, nourish nervous disorders, deliver diabetes, hurry heart disease, grow gallstones, hasten hypertension along with a plethora of other diseases. http://www.healingdaily.com lists much more.

For me personally, there is never enough sugar :) I don't drink regular soda or juice though. I don't give those to my kids either. I also try to limit their sweet intake and I don't give them sugary cereals.

I stay away from soda as much as I can. We never have it in our home unless we have a get together. I drink tons of water along with Crystal Light products that are sugar free.