The no sugar diet is it good for you
A no-sugar diet isnt as simple as cutting out all cakes and sweets. It means eliminating anything that contains sugar, which is almost all processed foods in our supermarkets YES - David Gillespie Author of Sweet Poison: Why Sugar Makes Us Fat (Penguin) People say, “I don’t eat much sugar”, but most of them eat massive amounts without realising. The average person consumes 40 teaspoons per day. If you look at processed foods, there’s sugar in everything. Barbecue sauce is about 55 per cent sugar, fat-free mayonnaise is 30 per cent, yoghurt can contain more sugar than ice-cream. It’s addictive so the more that’s added, the more we consume. A particular problem is fructose, which has been found to affect our appetite controls, making us eat more than we need. The result isobesity, non-alcoholic liver disease and type 2 diabetes. In 1981, Australia had 200,000 cases of type 2; now we have about 1.4 million. It’s out of control. I’d tried endless diets b...