Decrease your sugar intake

• Cut back on the quantity of sugar you may regularly add to foods & drinks, such as tea, coffee, pancakes & cereal.
• Replace sugar-sweetened beverages by sugar-free or low-calorie drinks.
• Compare food labels & choose the products by the lowest quantity of added sugars.
• When baking cakes, reduce the amount of sugar in the recipe by a third.
• Try replacing sugar in recipes with extracts or spices, such as cinnamon, ginger, vanilla or almond.
• Change sugar on cereal or oatmeal with fruit.