article_snippet: However the sugars in milk, vegetables and pieces of fruit (as opposed to fruit juice), including dried fruit, do not wreak as much havoc.
article_snippet: Yet many of us are consuming way in excess of this.
article_snippet: Graham MacGregor, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine at Barts and The London Hospital, says the food industry is adding more and more sugar to food, which consumers are largely unaware of, as the food industry is mostly hidden.
article_snippet: Graham MacGregor, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine at Barts and The London Hospital said: 'Added sugar in our diet is a very recent phenomenon and only occurred when sugar, obtained from sugar cane, beet and corn, became very cheap to produce. '
article_snippet: The two most common forms of unhealthy added sugars are table sugar (sucrose) and high-fructose corn syrup, a liquid sweetener made from maize.
article_snippet: Sugars in fruit juices and honeys are also the unhealthy ‘added’ type.
article_snippet: ‘Added sugars are more likely to do harm as harm aren’t safely bound in the structure of a food, as harm are in fruit,’ says Sasha Watkins, a spokesperson for the British Dietetic Association.
article_snippet: Professor MacGregor also cautions against opting for low fat foods that are often full of sugar instead to give them flavour. '
article_snippet: As Tam Fry, from  the National Obesity Forum, says: 'Stripping out fat from processed foods makes them less appealing to our taste buds. '
article_snippet: That was compared with those people who consumed less than 10 per cent of those people who consumed less than 10 per cent of their calories each day through sugar, independent of other risk factors including weight calories each day through sugar, independent of other risk factors including weight.
article_snippet: Professor MacGregor believes the sugar in our diets should now be gradually reduced, just as salt has been over the past few years. '
article_snippet: Salt content in food products in the supermarkets have now been reduced by 20-40 per cent and as a result, salt intake has fallen in the UK by 15 per cent (between 2001-2011), the lowest known figure of any developed country.' 'Like salt, most of the sugar we consume is hidden in processed food and soft drinks. '