Is it Possible to Cut Sugary Foods From Your Diet?

It is essential to cut as much sugar as possible from your diet as many refined sugar products are extremely toxic to the body.

Products such as cakes, croissant, biscuits, white bread etc are full of refined sugar which is both addictive and indeed, a pollutant to the body. Such sugary foods and snacks can contribute to a breakdown of health, so you will be doing yourself a massive favour if you cut many of these processed refined sugar ladened foods from your diet.

Many people do look at the food labels today in their efforts not to eat too much processed junk foods. When the label include the following ingredients, know that product you are about to purchase will actually be full of refined sugar:

Dextrose, invert syrup, maltose, maple syrup, palm sugar
Molasses, treacle, sucrose, dextrin, fructose

This list is by no means exhaustive.

Dr Cleave formerly Director of Medical Research of the Institute of Naval Medicine in the UK noted that ‘there is one common factor in all traditional healthy diets: the absence of sugar and all simple carbohydrates’.

You have probably realised that sugary junk food is very hard to cut completely from your diet. This is because it is extremely addictive, which is why you crave that ‘chocolate fix’, biscuits, cakes and the like. You can strive to be ‘sugar free’ for many weeks and it only takes a couple of biscuits or some chocolate and once again, you find yourself in the grip of the ‘junk food nightmare’. Yep, I’ve been through it more times than I care to admit. Hence the term ‘yoyo dieting’ keeps us all in its grip!

You have to be really determined to cut sugary junk foods from the diet. After all we are conditioned to believe that these foods are a treat. What present to get for someone, yes chocolates. How to celebrate birthdays with work colleagues, yep cakes. When visiting friends or relatives, again chocolates. What’s the best Easter gift ‘ a ton of wonderful chocolate Easter eggs. The list goes on and on so don’t blame yourself if you find it hard to cut out the sugar stuff, from childhood we have been conditioned to see these foods as treats. Even though I know that chocolate is not good for the body I still see it as a treat. I guess some mental conditioning is simply extremely difficult to overcome.

However, it is essential you take control and cut your sugar intake to a minimum you will then find your health and body weight will benefit tremendously.