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Refrain From Having Dessert and Sweets

In this week's challenge you must refrain from having dessert and sweets this week. Nutrition and medical experts agree that Americans eat too much sugar, and the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend cutting back on the sweet stuff. If you reduce the amount of sugar you eat, you may have more energy, lose weight or stay at a healthy weight more easily, see your triglycerides drop, have fewer dental cavities and even look younger.

Sugar that doesn’t get used as energy converts into fatty acids that become triglycerides – a type of fat that circulates in your blood. High levels of triglycerides increase your risk of developing heart diseases and stroke, so reducing your sugar intake may help protect your from cardiovascular problems later in life.


Suggested Reading:
Sugar-Free Living - Learn more here.
Artificial Sweeteners Are Linked to Weight Gain and Other Health Issues - Learn more here.
How Giving Up Refined Sugar Changed My Brain - Learn more here.
This challenge was closed on 7/30/2017

3  members have accepted this challenge.
2  members have completed this challenge.

Congratulations to these participants for completing the challenge.   Hemant v. V Gandhi   Naresh K Chadha

The Weekly Health Challenge is a self-audited program designed to motivate the JCSC Wellness participants in reducing BMI on a weekly basis.

How it works:

1. Each week there will be a new health challenge. You can accept the challenge by accepting the pledge for each challenge. You can only accept a challenge from midnight on Sunday to midnight on Tuesday.

2. At the end of the week, you can declare if you have completed the challenge. You can only mark a challenge as completed from midnight on Sunday to midnight on Tuesday.

3. Every week, the participants that complete the challenge will be recognized on this page.