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Few of us are willing to closely examine our own behaviour in relationship to sugar.  Most of us living in western societies are truly addicted to sugar, and we use it as a form of self medication to temporarily boost our mood and energy.

Refined white sugar is a pleasure drug, it is like dietary crack. The truth is that most of us are so addicted to sugar that we deny our addictions in the same way that a crack or heroin addict might.  And yet, when it comes down to it, sugar controls our behaviour.  Without our daily dosage of sugar at breakfast, lunch and dinner, we suffer withdrawal symptoms and go crazy with moodiness and irritability.

Essentially sugar is a legalised recreational drug that’s socially acceptable to consume.  And yet, just like other drugs, it destroys our health over time, rotting out teeth, disrupting normal brain function, promoting heart disease and directly causing diabetes and obesity. 

Do not think for one moment though that “sugar free” or “low calorie” products are safe simply because they contain no refined sugar. The sugar is replaced by a multitude of artificial sweeteners like aspartame that are all very toxic to the body, and in particular the brain.