Three people take the challenge to give up sugar for a month -which also includes giving up artificial sweeteners and honey. These are folks who drank soda all day, so it was not easy, but it was a life-changing experience. Do you think you could survive a month without sugar?
My daughter went on the Daniel fast a couple of years ago, which was three weeks of no sugar, meat, dairy, fried food, or processed grains. It was difficult shopping for such a diet, because when you read ingredients, everything in the store has added sugar! Even in the health food section, you see “dehydrated organic cane syrup,” which is a euphemism for sugar. I still don’t understand why a can of kidney beans has sugar in it. But she managed it, and learned to love a variety of fruits and vegetables along the way (she learned to cook, too). Two years later, she still eats healthily, and I keep a never-ending seasonal fruit bowl for the whole family to enjoy.
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But it also risk being penny wise and pound foolish. There isn't much need to worry about a small amount of sugar added to canned food (it is there often as a preservative, to cut down on the amount salt used as more people watch sodium intake). Or worrying about if a small amount of sugar was added to your mixed drink, when the alcohol probably has far more calories in it. And at the same time, I've know a couple people who drink so much juice, they are drinking more sugar daily than I got from soda as a teenager. Or some who eat large amounts of pasta and bread without much else balance things out or help cut back proportions.