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Sugar Comes in Many Different Forms
Your body is never without sugar. Even on the days, you don't "eat" sugar, your body still produces sugar, only in a different complex form.
Everything you eat - from fats to protein - will break down into sugar once we eat them. Sugar can come in the form of glucose, fructose, sucrose, or lactose.
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Excessive Sugar Intake
The excessive consumption of sugar is linked to an increased risk of poor health outcomes such as:
- heart diseases;
- type 2 diabetes;
- weight gain;
- higher blood pressure;
- inflammation and many more.
It's not recommended to consu...
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A Better Approach To Quitting Sugar
The best approach to quitting sugar is to eat it when you want it. The more you allow yourself to consume the foods that you feel are addictive, the more they tend to lose their excitement.
The main reason as to why we "crave" and look for sugar or feel why we're addicted ...
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Sugar Detox Rules Are Vague
Those who advocate for "quitting sugar" make arbitrary rules by listing down which foods are okay to eat and the ones that they are going to avoid.
However, this then becomes a slippery slope because there's no standard to what a sugar detox entails. As time goes on, the lack of an agreed-...
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- Think of your anxiety as a biological problem, rather than thinking there is something wron...
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