Added sugar is the single worst ingredient in the modern diet. It can have harmful effects on metabolism and contribute to all sorts of diseases. Here are 10 disturbing reasons why you should avoid added sugar like the plague. 1. Added Sugar Contains No Essential Nutrients and is Bad For Your Teeth You’ve probably heard … Read more
By Laird Harrison The Simmons family was in trouble. Dan and Natalie were both at least 20 pounds overweight, and so were their teenage son and daughter. Their two elementary-school-age girls were slowly heading in the same direction, and several close relatives suffered from heart disease, arthritis, cancer, and diabetes. Facing these dangers, the Manti, … Read more
We’ve discussed type I Sugar addiction, which is where fatigue leaves us reaching for sugar as an energy loan shark. We discussed how to make healthy energy, including the use of an especially powerful nutrient called ribose which increases energy an average of 61%. This week, the excerpt from “The Complete Guide to Beating Sugar … Read more
Type 4 Sugar Addiction: Depressed and Craving Carbs Sugar cravings caused by your period, menopause, or andropause Hormones are a critical part of your body’s communication and control system. For this reason, hormone deficiencies––or even imbalances––can wreak havoc with your physical and emotional well-being. If you have a deficiency of estrogen, progesterone, and/or testosterone (if … Read more
The Solution to Sugar addiction: How to Have your Cake and Eat It Too! In this final excerpt from “The Complete Guide to Beating Sugar Addiction”, we begin the discussion on how to make sugar addiction go away by knowing your sugar addiction type. But first, we discuss simple ways to keep your pleasure, while … Read more
Sugar Addiction Are you a sugar addict? If the answer is yes, you are not alone. American adults consume about 15 percent of our calories from sugars that are added to foods during processing—or 140 to 150 pounds of sugar per person each year! A mind blowing 37 percent of added sugars are consumed in … Read more