How difficult would it be for you to eliminate sugar from your diet?
Even just for 1 week?
Sugar is an addictive drug. We’re hooked as kids and stick with it for the rest of our adult lives. Because it stimulates our neurological sensors in our brain, it has drug-like effects like bingeing, cravings, withdrawal, dependence. Then as we transition into adulthood, we add to our addictions with caffeine and alcohol.
Studies link sugary foods as a cause behind many of our diseases of civilization, like type-2 diabetes, obesity, inflammation, autoimmune disease, and cancer. It makes sense, since our cancerous cells thrive on carbohydrates like sugar.
The average person consumes more than 20 teaspoons of added sugar per day (the recommended amount for women is no more than 6 teaspoons).
More than 20 teaspoons of additional sugar is an additional 350+ calories per day, which equals approximately 1 lb of body weight per week.
Can you change your habits?
Because sugar is lurking in almost everything.
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Are you ready for the challenge?
It’s one of the toughest habits to change because it’s hiding in your diet, disguised by many unrecognizable names. However, once we achieve a week without sugar, we find that our mood improves, our energy increases, our sleep improves, our mental clarity is sharper, and our digestion is more balanced so that we can reduce our junk food cravings, allow our bodies to properly utilize their hormones, and eat when we’re hungry instead of being tired or thirsty and grabbing the nearest cookies, granola bars, and sugary beverages. You will notice that after a time period without added sugar that a sugary food or drink (like coffee with sugar, a donut, or can of Coke) will taste sickingly sweet in your mouth and even leave a sticky film-like feeling over your teeth.
This challenge will unveil how much sugar is truly hiding in everything we typically consume daily, and allow you to discover the true functions and feelings in your body.
Sugar is added to many processed and packaged foods, such as:
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Breakfast cereal 

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Granola bars 

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Condiments (salad dressing, marinades, ketchup) 

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Tomato sauce 

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Bread 

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Juice 

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Crackers 

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Chips 

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Dairy products 

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Sports drinks 

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Baked goods 

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Dextrose
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Maltodextrin
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Maltose
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Lactose
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Brown sugar
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Corn syrup
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Corn sweetener
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Ethyl Maltol
Ready for the surprise? There are more than 60 names for sugar.
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Glucose
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Fructose
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Sucrose
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High-fructose corn syrup
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Fruit juice concentrate
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Cane juice
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Cane sugar
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Dextran
The reason we are also eliminating natural sweeteners, like raw honey, maple syrup, and dried fruit is because sugar is sugar and we want to remove any added forms of it from our diet for this challenge.
TRY THE 7-DAY NO SUGAR CHALLENGE
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