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DIETARY ENERGY FROM FREE SUGARS (a) Usual Intake. See Glossary for definition. Source: National Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey, 2011-12 The WHO have also made a further conditional recommendation that free sugar intakes be reduced to below 5% of total energy intake.1 Overall, nine out of ten people (89%) exceeded this recommendation, with the most likely to exceed being children and teenagers (aged between 4 and 18 years) where almost all (97%) usually derived 5% or more of their energy from free sugars. Adults aged 51-70 year olds were least likely to exceed the recommendation with 81% consuming 5% or more of total energy from free sugars.
(a) Usual Intake. See Glossary for definition. Source: National Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey, 2011-12 1 World Health Organization, 2015, Guideline: Sugars intake for adults and children, Geneva: WHO, <http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/149782/1/9789241549028_eng.pdf>, Last accessed 19/04/2016. 2 The percentage of energy from free and added sugars was estimated by multiplying each gram of free and added sugars by a conversion factor of 16 to determine the kilojoules of energy.
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