What's the deal with sugar?

Posted by: Rainbow

16th Mar 2012 10:29am

Do you think the Government should play a part in prohibiting the amount of sugar that's 'hidden' in processed foods? Perhaps imposing a tax on sugar? Do you think more education should be given on the dangers of excess sugar intake? Have you cut out sugar in the past and noticed a difference in your health and weight? Do you have a sugar substitute? Or do you simply not care...?

Mersie

16th Mar 2012 09:44pm

I done the no sugar thing a while back. I bought the book Sweet Poison and got right into it, it recommended using Dextrose instead of sugar, but I found it very hard to buy, and when I did manage to get some it was very bland.
The good part though was that after a few days I lost all my cravings for sweet things, and it didn't even worry me when someone ate chocolate in front of me. I don't remember why I stopped. The book recommended that you only have 10 grams of sugar daily, but there is so much sugar in everything, it's in milk, bread and all the staples that you eat every day, and you eat them without even thinking about what is in them.
At least this got me reading labels and realising what I was really eating.
I still avoid sugar, but am not religiously avoiding it all together, I have for instance the diet yogurt, instead of the other variety and I really like rye bread which has the least sugar, the only trouble is the book recommends eating butter and I just love the taste of butter, so found I was cutting down on sugar but beafing up on fats, which I know is no good for you, so you really have to watch that.
I didn't lose any weight, but maybe I wasn't trying hard enough, I think I liked that butter too much.

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