Six to nine cities that are or were associated with Palm Desert: 1  Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. 2  Osoyoos, British Columbia, Canada. 3  Haifa, Israel. 4  La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. 5  Gisborne, New Zealand. 6  Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. 7  Port Elizabeth, South Africa. 8  Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, Mexico.
Sugars occur naturally in fruit, vegetables and dairy foods and are added to foods for flavour, texture and colour. You should aim to consume no more than your recommended intake and limit foods that are high in added sugars and low in other nutrients. The reference value for sugars for an average adult is 90 grams.
We Eat Four Times As Much Sugar As We Should! According to a 2009 study in Circulation, annual sugar intake has increased 19% from 1970 to 2005. In 2009, the American Heart Association (AHA) reported Americans were ingesting an average of 111 grams of sugar per day which is the equivalent of about 450 calories per day! The AHA set a limit of suggested sugar intake of 30 grams per day max, which is equivalent to only 120 calories per day or about one quarter of average current consumption. Sugar is often used in exchange for the technical term 'sucrose', which is a disaccharide made up of one molecule of glucose and one molecule of fructose.