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Your guide to spotting and avoiding secret sugars

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Does a sugar by another name have just as much calories? Not always, but usually. As a healthy consumer, it's your job to educate yourself on the many names and guises sugar uses to hide itself and entice you, the buyer, into consuming it. Armed with this new information, you should be able to conquer the grocery store with ease, making sure that you and your family don't end up with high-glucose foods that will wreak havoc on your waistline and your health.

What I'm trying to say is: sugar's not only found in the blatantly sweet foods like cake and cookies. It can be hidden in many things. As a rule of thumb, I avoid things with ingredient name's ending in 'ose', like fructose, maltose, dextrose, etc. What are your tips?

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