“THE SWEET LIFE”

Reduce the Sugar, Extend your Life

Let’s jump right in Rooted Fam! I want you to understand two things: if there is any form of sugar within the first four ingredients of a food label, that is a dessert!! Too much sugar intake can kill you. Before you decide that you don’t eat sweets, therefore this does not relate to you, please read the following:

1. If you have high cholesterol, YOU HAVE A SUGAR PROBLEM!

2. If you have arthritis, YOU HAVE A SUGAR PROBLEM!

3. If you have chronic inflammation, YOU HAVE A SUGAR PROBLEM!

4. If you have type 2 diabetes, YOU HAVE A SUGAR PROBLEM!

5. If you have heart disease, YOU HAVE A SUGAR PROBLEM!

6. If you have neuropathy, YOU HAVE A SUGAR PROBLEM!

Allow me to be clear, I loveeeeee a good dessert, but desserts should be eaten in moderation. Typically, we do not douse our pallets in cookies and cakes multiple times a day. Dessert is usually reserved for special occasions. However, many of us are unaware that although our sweet tooth does not come in the form of a traditional dessert, it still occupies our shelves in many other forms. One of the things I hear frequently during wellness assessments is, “I’m not really a sweets person,” this is usually code for I do not actually know the sugars that I am consuming. So let’s break it down. Listed below is the 6 foods you never knew were LOADED with sugar:

1. Sauces: tomato based, alfredo, ketchup, bbq, salad dressings etc.

2. Fruit Juice: juices labeled 100% juice (scam), apple, orange, cranberry (is NOT better for you)

3. White Carbs (refined wheat flour): pizza, spaghetti, penne, macaroni, bagels, pastries,

4. Breakfast Cereal: Special K, Fruit Loops, Kashi GO LEAN, Raisin Bran, Apple Jacks, Frosted Flakes etc.

5. Sports Drinks: Gatorade, Powerade, Vitaminwater, BodyArmor

6. Flavored Yogurt

The most frustrating thing to deal with as a holistic nutritionist is the awareness that the predatory food industry intentionally prey on the ignorance of a culture that desires to be healthier by using manipulative branding and nutrition fact tactics. For example, have you ever seen a label that reads, “NO ADDED SUGAR”? This conspicuous branding may have you thinking that this food item is possibly healthy, low sugar, or possibly even no sugar at all. This is completely untrue. For example, some fruit juices are able to tout the claim “No Sugar Added” even though they are filled with sugar. Just because there is no additional sugar put into the mix, doesn’t make it healthy. So what does no sugar added actually mean? To put it into context, it usually means, this item has a ton of sugar in it already but we did not add any extra. It also does not account for artificial sweeteners that also contribute to spikes in your glucose level. The following are sneaky ways the food industry discloses sugar in your food:

1. High Fructose Corn Syrup

2. Rice Syrup

3. Fruit Juice Concentrate

4. Sucrose, Dextrose, Maltose, Fructose

5. Agave Nectar

6. Cane Sugar

7. Coconut Sugar

The most important thing to conclude is the overconsumption of sugar can actually kill you and that the body does not know the difference between fruit juice concentrate and cane sugar. The molecules of all sugary foods are exactly the same, therefore it impacts your body the exact same way. When it comes to our food choices, we must see that there is no difference between pasta with spaghetti sauce and birthday cake. We must see sugar for exactly what it is and that is dessert. We must be aware that sugar intake promotes illness and is the contributing factor of nearly 100% of chronic illnesses and if you already have one of these illnesses, you must eliminate it or significantly reduce the consumption.

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