Huffpost Healthy Living
Inspired by research and writings by prolific food-industry researchers like professor Robert Lustig, M.D., and journalist Michael Moss, Eve Schaub decided to try an experiment. She, along with her husband and daughters Greta and Ilsa, spent all of 2011 eating no added sugar.
They combed packaged foods for other names for sugar, including high fructose corn syrup, crystalline fructose, maple syrup, honey, molasses, evaporated cane juice, as well as artificial sweeteners. They started preparing more foods at home. Each family member was allowed one regular exception that contained a small amount of sugar — Eve opted for a glass of red wine — and once a month, the family would have an agreed-upon dessert.
We recently caught up with Eve to chat about the experience, as well as the upcoming memoir of that sugar-free year, Year of No Sugar, available April 8.
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Apr 08, 2014 @ 07:59:43
I did not go to those lengths, but similar. I’ve been mostly sugar free for decades now. I don’t eat sweets or deserts though sometimes I treat myself. A handfull of grapes is a lot of sugar to me now, overwhelming really. You have to just ditch condiments, even salad dressings. It’s hard. Once you get used to it, it’s easy because all that sugar really does taste bad for you.
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Apr 09, 2014 @ 05:09:19
Thanks, I was considering the no sugar plunge but, like you say it is in so many products it’s hard to avoid.
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Apr 09, 2014 @ 05:10:08
Yes, I just don’t use any extra… it’s a big difference
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