Following on from last week's video, today I
want to share with you five things that
I've learned about sugar the hard way
so that you don't have to.
Hi. I'm Nikki, The Truth Fairy from
ChoosingDifferently.com and I'm here
to help you find YOUR way to heal cancer.
When I was a kid I had lots of food allergies.
Growing up I had dairy intolerance and
gluten intolerance which meant there was
a big long list of foods that I wasn't allowed
to eat but sugar was never on that list.
So sugar was a pretty normal part of my
diet. And it wasn't until I got older and
started wanting to fix some of my health
issues and also I had a family and wanted
to make sure they were as healthy as
possible, that sugar really came into
focus for me. And I went from eating
refined sugar on a reasonably regular basis
to these days where I almost never eat it.
And along the way there are five things
that I learned that I want to share with you.
The first thing I learned was that that sugar is in
everything. I already knew how to read
labels because I was looking for gluten
and looking for dairy. But when I
started looking for sugar in processed
foods I was amazed at what I found.
How many foods have it added. I saw one figure
that said three quarters of packaged
food on the shelves in the supermarkets has
some kind of added sugar. And the
tricky thing is that sugar goes under
lots of different names. It's not just
called "sugar". There are so many different
names. Agave nectar is a kind of sugar.
Maltodextrin is a kind of sugar.
Glucose is a kind of sugar. And there's
over 50, 60 names, different names that all
represent kinds of added sugar. So I'll add a link
to an article that actually lays out all
those different names for sugar for you so
you can go and learn what those names
and recognise them when you're reading
labels on those processed foods. As a
point of interest the World Health
Organization recommends eating
a maximum of 10% of your calories
from sugar and preferably 5%.
Which equates to about 6 teaspoons
a day. The American Heart Foundation
recommends a maximum of six teaspoons
per day for women and nine teaspoons for men.
At the moment the average person eats
around 20 or more teaspoons a day and
sometimes as high as 40 teaspoons a day.
So as a society we're eating a lot more sugar
than is really good for us. The second thing
that I learned is that it's okay to use
natural sweeteners to transition off
refined sugar. When I first started
making raw vegan dishes, one of the ways
that made it possible for me to
transition off my existing vegan but not
very healthy diet was desserts. Things
that used agave nectar and coconut nectar
and maple syrup and dried fruits. Sweet
desserts satisfied my sweet tooth and
allowed me to transition away to more
nutrient-dense foods that fed my body
but satisfied my taste buds. And over
time I found that I didn't need them as
much, but having that option to
transition off the refined sugars with
the natural sweeteners was really
important for me. So if you have the time,
if you can make that transition gradually,
the natural sugars are a great way to do
that. If on the other hand you're dealing
with a life-threatening condition like
cancer where you need to cut down sugars
pretty quickly then you may want to
go cold turkey.
It might be harder but it will get you to that
point of eating a lot less sugar a lot
faster. The third thing I learned was that
your taste buds will adjust. I didn't
really expect it to, but I found over
time that I needed sweet things less and
less and also that when I went back to
eating dishes that I'd had previously
that I really liked, I found them really
sweet. So your taste buds do adjust
over time to having less sugar in your
diet. So trust your body. It may take time
but it will happen eventually as your
body adjusts to eating less sweet foods.
You won't be as used to eating the sweet
foods and those desserts that you used to love will
actually almost taste too sweet for you.
And they'll taste funny. Which is a good thing
because hopefully it'll stop you wanting
to eat as much of it.
The fourth thing that I learned about
sugar that the hard way
is that sugar is addictive.
Absolutely. When I get stressed, which
probably happens more often than I would
like it to, the first thing my body wants me to eat
is sugar. Body says, "Arrgghhh. Eat some sugar!"
Now these days, what I tend to go to
is dates, medjool dates. They're dried
fruit, so they're concentrated sugar, but at least
they have the fibre and the minerals and
all the other things that are in there
as well. It's still sugar, it's still sweet but
it's not fully the refined sugars. But
ultimately it's my body saying, "I need
energy. Go and eat something sweet!" and as
soon as I eat something sweet I tend to
want to eat more. And I find sometimes
when I do eat things with refined sugar
in them, even though they taste funny, if I
start it's like I open the door and I just
want to eat more and more and it's to really hard
to stop. And there are some identified
pathways that sugar actually uses to
create this experience for you. So, you
might be the kind of person who can eat
a small amount of sugar and you're fine,
in which case a small amount isn't going to
be a problem. But if you know that a
small amount of sugar opens the floodgates to
eating a lot of sugar then you need to be
really careful. So observe yourself. Learn how
you respond to sugar. And just be aware
that sugar can be very addictive, so be careful.
The fifth thing that I learned is that sugar
really does play havoc with your body.
It interferes with all kinds of metabolic
pathways, taps into feedback loops that
get you eat more of it, that suppress
healthy pathways and amplify unhealthy
pathways that basically get you to eat
more and more sugar. Originally when
these pathways developed, it was in a
context where we didn't have access to
so much refined sugar, so it was okay for
us to tap into those systems that made
us want to eat more and more sugar. But in a
world where sugar is in abundance it
works against us. Our body doesn't
know what to do with all this sugar. It creates
all the health conditions. It contributes
to inflammation, suppresses the immune
system. It does so many things that put our
body out of balance that sugar really is a
poison for our system in many
circumstances and it's not something we
really want to be eating a lot of.
And I read a couple of interesting
books on the topic. One is called "Fat
Chance" by Robert Lustig. He goes a lot
into how sugar works in our body, the
biochemical pathways it uses. He's very
anti-fructose, so you know whether or not
you're agree with that, there's a lot of
interesting information in his book
about sugar and the effect on your body. And
it's an absolute eye-opening book and I highly
recommend it and I'll put a link to it.
Another book that I read is called "Sweet
Poison" which goes along the same lines
but it's another perspective on the fact
that sugar is really a poison for your
body, and what you can do to reduce the
amount of sugar you eat. And to understand that
impact can really motivate you to do that.
There's also a couple of really
interesting documentary films you might
want to check out. One is called "That
Sugar Film" and it's the story of a guy
who decides to add sugar back into
his diet. He eats a relatively healthy diet and
decides to add 40 teaspoons of sugar to his diet
every day and the changes that unfold
in his body are absolutely fascinating.
And the last one is called
"The Secrets of Sugar" and I'll put links
to those books and documentaries and
also the list of the names of sugar in
the description of this video so you can
check them out. So that was five things
that I learned about sugar the hard way.
One - It's in everything. Two - It's okay to use
natural sweeteners to transition if you
need to. Three - Your taste buds will adjust. Four -
Sugar is addictive. And Five - Sugar
plays havoc with your body. I hope you
found that video interesting and now I'd
love to hear from you. Which of those lessons
have you already learned the hard way?
I'd love to hear about your experiences
with sugar. If you could share your
experiences in the comments, that
would be great. I'd really like to hear your
story and how you've had to deal with sugar
and learn these lessons the hard way.
Check my next video to continue
activating your body's natural ability
to heal.
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