Could you quit sugar for 10 days?

You may want to when you see what sugar is doing to you! The Fed Up Challenge "implicates the excessive intake of refined sugars in the development of many chronic illnesses, such as heart disease, cancer, type 2 diabetes, and Alzheimer’s disease." That's in addition to the low mood or mood swings, cravings, joint aches, and weight gain you may already be experiencing.

The problem is, sugar is in almost every processed food, from baked beans to crisps. It's even in healthy foods like most flavoured yogurts and many breakfast cereals. And of course fizzy drinks are full of it.

But I drink diet! you protest.

Diet drinks contain sweeteners such as aspartame, NutraSweet, sucralose or Splenda, acesulfame k, or sugar alcohols such as maltitol, xylitol, sorbitol, and erythritol which can impact your blood sugar levels as if you had consumed sugar.

And don't think you're safe with flavoured waters either. Many of them are sweetened with the above mentioned sweeteners!

The best thing you can do is to cut out all fizzy drinks, sugary cakes and sweets and check food labels for hidden sugars.

But beware, sugar often masquerades as:

Agave nectar/syrup Barley malt Beet sugar/grape sugar Brown rice syrup Brown sugar Cane juice crystals/ Cane sugar/juice Carob syrup Confectioner’s sugar Corn syrup/sugar Corn sweetener/Corn syrup solids High fructose corn syrup Fructose/Crystalized fructose Date sugar Dextran/dextrose Evaporated cane juice Fruit juice/Fruit juice concentrate Glucose/ Glucose solids Golden sugar/syrup Grape juice concentrate Honey Invert sugar SUGAR in all its Forms Lactose (milk sugar) Malt/maltose Maltodextrin Maple syrup Molasses Raw sugar/sucanat Sorghum syrup Sucrose/Sugar Turbinado sugar.

Phew!

To find out more about the 10 day challenge and what sugar is doing to your body, watch this video below. Then let us know if you are doing the 10 day challenge!



Ready to take the challenge? Then download these tips for success. Good Luck!