Nearly 8 in 10 French eat sugar at least once a week
Nearly eight out of ten French consume sugar at least once a week, according to an analysis published by the Center for Studies and Documentation of sugar (Cedus) September 29. This analysis is based on a survey by the National Individual food consumption (Inca), conducted by the French Agency for Food Safety (AFSSA). The French eat mostly sugar mouth at breakfast.

White or red, added to yoghurt or a cake, sugar mouth “is the sugar that the French use as food.

Breakfast accounts for 47% of total sugar consumed by mouth in adults, and 33% of total sugar consumed mouth by children.

The French consume mostly white sugar sprinkled on the fresh dairy products, fruits, or added to coffee or tea. This way of eating sugar represents more than 50% of consumption.

The sugar used for pastries and homemade cakes and jams the sugar house are two other major categories of consumption of sugar mouth.

Children consume on average half the sugar of mouth than adults: 5 grams per day, against 11.5 grams per day. This difference is partly explained by the consumption of hot drinks like tea or coffee.

Men are more likely than women to consume white sugar. However, women consume more sugar over the pastry and homemade cakes.

35% of adults surveyed consume a product reduced sugar at least once a week, as a drink, fresh or stewed.

Women use particular sugar diet products with a high proportion of people dieting.

Consumers of low-sugar ingest fewer calories, alcohol, fat, but nevertheless the class of consumers whose contribution of sugars in their caloric intake is most important.

This can be explained by their tendency to consume more dairy products, sugar and fruit at the expense of carbohydrates.

The Center for Studies and Documentation of sugar (Cedus) published this analysis in conjunction with the Research Center for the Study and Observation of Living Conditions (Credoc).

These results were obtained in a study by the National Individual food consumption (Inca), conducted by the French Agency for Food Safety (AFSSA) with 4,000 children and adults in 2006 and 2007.

More than eight in ten women (83%) claim to monitor their diet lose weight, according to an exclusive poll conducted by Harris Interactive for Top Health, published September 25 in this magazine. 30% of women would pay attention to what they eat continuously. These plans involve constraints, however, whose hunger between meals, cited by 65% of women surveyed. 55% worried about having to give up certain foods, including bread and chocolate.

The women interviewed are especially careful about their online before the summer (92%) and after the holidays (89%). They also monitor their particular line back from vacation (78%) and before an important event (73%).

The main reasons for weight gain are the snacks (40%), stress (32%) and a balanced diet is not enough (29%) or too rich (25%) as major stakeholders. For women over fifty years, menopause is a factor for weight the most important (61%).

The women surveyed say they want to lose weight primarily to feel better about their body and head (86%), to appeal more (72%) but also for health reasons (61%). Nearly four in ten women (39%) reported monitoring their weight to please the beloved.

The biggest constraints are the regimes of hunger between meals (65%) and fatigue (64%). The meal with friends and business meals are also difficult to manage in times of regime for 58% of them. Because 55% of women surveyed fear having to give up certain foods.

Bread (47%), chocolate (38%) and cheese ((37%) top foods with the women say they can not do without. Pastes come in fourth position.

43% of women believe that a system should not be a source of deprivation, and must also be associated with pleasure. For almost all women (93%), physical activity can have beneficial effects on a diet.

68% even think that physical activity would increase “considerably” an effective system. Nearly one in four women has already consulted an expert to help him lose weight, be it a nutritionist (19%) or a dietician (19%).

Regarding methods accompanying bags protein (13% of use) and dietary supplements (11%) were the most successful to date.

The survey was conducted online from June 12 to 18, with a sample of 1000 women representative of the French population aged 15 and over.