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10 things you should know before giving up sugar
Giving up sugar cuts out a lot of your calories. While you focus on avoiding sugar instead of calories, weight loss happens naturally.
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Fruit juice, even if it is freshly pressed, 100 percent juice, is little more than sugar water.
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You might feel full immediately after drinking a glass of juice or a fresh smoothie, but that sensation goes away rapidly, as the liquid quickly empties out of your stomach.
When you drink your calories instead of eating them, your brain doesn’t get the same “I’m full” signal that it does from solid food, even though you end up consuming more calories in the process.
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The need for food preservation has historically led the Ancient humans to develop techniques to process food.
From learning to control fire to grinding grains, our ancestors have been able to...
Processed food has aided the evolution of Homo Sapiens: As food became easy to eat and digest, our jaws and teeth became less powerful and smaller.
The shape of our brains and even the development of language resulted partially from our eating habits in our evolutionary path.
The current crop of super processed foods is altering our insulin resistance, teeth, metabolism, brain chemistry, and internal organs.