If you had asked me if I was addicted to sugar before I started my sugar free journey, I would have laughed at the idea. Addiction was for the weak and sugar wasn’t addictive, or so I thought. Little did I realize that under an MRI machine, eating a sugary treat causes the brain to […]
We’ve talked about how fructose will make you fat, but did you know it affects our bodies in other ways as well? One of the more eye-opening facts that was in Fed Up was that up to 20% of Americans have health problems normally associated with obesity but are not over-weight. There is strong scientific […]
Sugar is bad. Every week more and more science comes in that makes this truth even more evident. More specifically, it’s the fructose in sugar that is causing all the damage. According to Dr. Richard Johnson who has devoted his professional life to studying exactly how fructose affects us, here are five ways that Fructose […]
Why Fructose is Making You Fat- Part Two Last time we talked in broad strokes about how Fructose is making you fat. Now I want to discuss what is happening at the hormonal level when you eat fructose. (Again, all this info comes from the books and authors mentioned at the top of this page. […]
