Cutting out sugar in coffee

Cutting sugar from your hot drink routine might seem like a small change to your diet, but the overall effect it can have on your calorie intake is tremendous.

Consider this – a teaspoon contains about 5g of sugar, which contains 20 calories.

So having three hot drinks a day with one spoonful of sugar in each is 60 calories, around 2.5% of the daily total recommended for men. Sounds small, but considering many people are habitual coffee drinkers, those calories add up.

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Ditch sugar and you’ll have almost 22,000 extra calories to play with every year, so it’s a move well worth making.

The problem is it can be dashed tricky to break the habit. Fortunately, a new study has been investigating the best ways to give up the sweet stuff.

Unexpectedly, the results suggest that gradually weaning yourself off sugar is the worst way to go.

The study, published in the Journal Of Health Psychology, found that going cold turkey or taking a mindful approach to drinking coffee would both be more effective than weaning yourself off

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