Assuming that one teaspoon is
4.745gm, and that you are a normal human being with a good taste for food, you
have:
Every day: 2 cups of coffee/ tea – 3 teaspoons
total
2
slices of bread or equivalent – 10 teaspoons total
1
cup vegetable, or curry or soup – 3 teaspoons total
1
bowl of cereal – 2 teaspoons total
Weekly: 1 pastry/ cake/ sweet – 10 teaspoons
1 milkshake/ juice – 4 teaspoons
1 Soda – 10 teaspoons
Monthly: 1 Party where you hog like crazy on
stuff like this – 50 teaspoons in total
1 Ice-cream cup – 40 teaspoons
Yearly: If an Indian – Lots of sweets,
which we will ignore.
Ganesh
Chaturthi – Modak
Holi
– Puran Poli
Dassera – Shrikhanda
And
infinite reasons to have Gulab Jamuns, Rasgullas, Rabdi, Barfis, Vadi, Paak etc
etc…
(If you make 40 Gulab Jamuns, you usually end
up using atleast 500gm sugar, equivalent of around 100 teaspoons. Of these,
each one eats atleast 10 Gulab Jamuns.
Shrikhanda
is worse, with half as much sugar as you eat. So if you eat two bowls of sugar,
you have had atleast one bowl of raw plain sugar, equivalent of 150gm, i.e. 30 teaspoons)
But let us ignore all the
sugars from all the fried stuff you eat, like dhoklas, chips, bhakarwadis, etc
etc. Barring these, we still come across thousands of reasons to have sugar,
for example, energy drinks, beer, juices, coffees, birthday cakes, cupcakes,
donuts, chocolate bars, breakfast bars, energy bars etc. etc.
So what we are counting is
just the tip of the iceberg for any normal human being.
So the count is: Teaspoons Grams
From daily things: (18 * 365) = 6570 31174.65
From weekly things: (24 * 52) = 1248 5921.76
From monthly things: (90 * 12) = 1080 5124.6
Total = 8898 42221.01
That comes to a mind
boggling 42.22 Kilograms.
So if you weigh an average
Indian weight, then you eat more than half your body weight in sugar.
Each teaspoons sugar 16
calories of energy. So in a year, you have 168884.04 calories being consumed.
Let us see what it takes to
burn these off:
If an average weighted (170
pounds) walks at a moderate pace for one hour, he burns of 270 calories.
To burn off all these
calories, you will need to walk for 625.5 hours.
So you would have to keep
walking for 26.5 days in your life to burn the minimum amount of sugar you eat.
And this just makes up for the artificial sugar you eat :)
