There's two types of food people can reduce in their diet to lead a healthier lifestyle, according to the NHS.
One food type is sugar, as the NHS website claims the nation consumes "too much" of the stuff.
And the second type to consider reducing your intake of is starchy carbohydrates such as potatoes, bread, rice, pasta and cereals.
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The NHS encourages people to look at the nutritional labels to tell you how much sugar is in what you're eating, and advises us to buy more greens and ambers and fewer reds in our weekly shop.
Because on average Brits eat 700g of sugar per week, which amounts to an average of 140 teaspoons per person, as Wales Online reports.
A sure way of cutting down on your sugar intake is through cutting out fizzy drinks. Nearly a quarter of the added sugar in our diets comes from sugary drinks, according to the NHS.
Another way to reduce your sugar intake is through cutting out sugar in your tea and coffee and either gradually reducing it or cutting it out completely and swapping to a sweetener instead.
Many foods that are a part of our diet we don't consider to be sweet but actually contain a large amount of sugar, such as shop bought soup, condiments and jar pasta sauces which contain more than 13g of sugar including added sugar, which is the equivalent to three teaspoons of sugar.
Whilst starchy food is a good source of energy and adds a range of other nutrients to our diet, where you can the NHS advises to choose wholegrain varieties.
This makes wholegrain starchy foods a good choice as you are trying to lose weight.
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