How to cut 'added sugar' from your diet — and what happens to your body when you do

• The UK has introduced a tax on sugar in an effort to curb rising levels of obesity.
• The average adult eats twice as much sugar as recommended.
• Sugar feeds bad bacteria which erodes the surface of teeth and creates decay.
• Sugary foods are often high in calories, and the body processes them more quickly than other energy producing foods, like fruit and nuts.
• Luckily, there are easy ways to cut down.

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The UK sugar tax has kicked in and those craving their daily fix of sweet fizz will now either have to pay more for it (Coke/Pepsi), or accept that revised recipes (Irn-Bru, Lucozade) are now altogether less sugary than before..........