Cold Hard Facts About Sugar
by Nancy Desjardins
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You might not believe you have a sugar addiction, choosing to refute the old saying that tells us that anything that tastes really nice is bound to be bad for us. Whether this is inherently true or not is open to conjecture, but it certainly applies to an overabundance of sugar. Like many other things we need to absorb in moderation, as while sugar can give us energy, too much of it is certainly unhealthy.
Don’t Rely on Others to Tell You About Sugar
by Nancy Desjardins
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Do you need somebody else to tell you how to look at holistic nutrition? We have a sort of love-hate relationship with our authorities. On the one hand, we like to complain about how government “gets into everything,” while on the other hand we expect the various agencies and departments to keep us on the straight and narrow and safe from harm of any kind. What we really need to do is take responsibility for our own actions and understand that we should not rely on others to advise us what we should or should not consume. Fundamentally, each one of us is responsible for our health and should be able to take informed decisions when it comes to shopping for foods that are likely to help us live long and prosper.
Plan a Healthy Diet
Food must be one of life’s richest pleasures, yet we often ignore holistic nutrition and fail to understand its very purpose and go completely off track. We focus on imbalance, allowing sugar addiction and other food cravings to adversely affect our lives. Fundamentally, food is a source of energy, enrichment and nutrition and dietary plans should be designed accordingly. We are eating certain types and quantities of food and drinks to enable our bodies, being the machines that they are, to function correctly.
Seven Days to Sugar Freedom
Holistic nutrition teaches us that we should have a clear understanding of what it really takes to make our bodies work correctly. As we grow up we gather all kinds of conflicting signals, bad habits and lazy ideals, causing our diet to become anything but optimal. We have a basic understanding of nutrition and what we should be doing, but end up cobbling together a diet that is a product of our hectic and disruptive lifestyles and often pays little real attention to our most important needs.
