Sara Givens - The 14 Day Sugar Detox Diet

The 14-Day Sugar Detox Diet

Step-By-Step Meal Plan And Recipes To Kick Sugar Cravings, Lose Weight Easily, And Feel Amazing!

H AVE YOU NOTICED LATELY how everyone is talking about sugar like its a dangerous drug?

Thats because it is.

Sugar is our favorite comfort food. Its how we celebrate holidays, outings, and special occasions. Its how we end our meals and begin our romances. Its our ice cream, box of chocolates, birthday cake, and funnel cake at the fair. How can something that delightful be bad for us?

But quite honestly, those things arent really the major problem for most people. When we gobble down a banana split, we already know that weve eaten a lot of sugar, right? Its a treat and not an everyday thing.

The real problem is the quantity of sugar we consume without being aware of it. The amount of sugar thats hidden under various names in our everyday life, even things like toothpaste, is astonishing... and frightening.

Too much of anything is usually bad news, and sugar is no exception. Overexposure has the effect of desensitizing you. Your tolerance level is raised. It becomes a vicious circle. The more sugar you consume, the less you experience the sweetness of it... so you need to increase the amount of sugar to get the same sweet taste. You constantly need more sugar to get the same effect.

Hmm, that sounds eerily like what happens with drug addicts, doesnt it?

Whether sugar is actually addictive is a hotly debated topic right now, but one thing is not in question. As our consumption of sugar has risen, our level of health has declined. For decades, fats have been called the bad guys -blamed for making us overweight and causing heart disease along with host of other health problems.

Recent scientific research, however, is showing that fats have been falsely accused. The real culprit is most likely sugar.

What can you do about it?

Thats what youll learn in this book. Youll learn how sugar negatively affects your mind and body, and why artificial sweeteners are even worse for you. Youll learn the many names that these substances hide behind, and how to find and avoid them. Most importantly, youll learn how to break free from excessive sugar consumption, how to detox, and then how to reset your sweetness sensors back to natural and normal levels.

Finally, youll learn how to maintain a lower-sugar lifestyle so you can continue to enjoy clearer skin, better sleep, less body fat, better digestion, better overall health, fewer headaches and body aches, longer life.

Yes, you can have your cake and eat it too. All you need to do now is just turn the page!

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T HAT SUGAR HAS CAST a spell over humankind cannot be denied. Since it was first domesticated over 10,000 years ago, sugar has been credited with mystical powers, touted as a medical remedy, been a status symbol, and slowly spread its sticky tentacles all over the globe.

Man had evolved to be a superior processor of fructose, once only available in seasonal fruit, and our bodies were designed to crave it and to store it as fat, to protect us from starving in the winter.

Sugar made that substance available year-round, feeding our instinctive cravings and, as it became both more available and more affordable, we became infatuated with sugar.

The first to fall for sugar were the New Guinea tribesmen, who discovered that chewing a stem of sugar cane produced a totally new and enticing burst of flavor. They cultivated the plants, and sugar became an integral part of their ancient myths and featured heavily in their religious ceremonies. Knowledge of this wondrous plant slowly spread from one island to another.

Sugar cane arrived on the mainland of Asia around 1000 B.C., and from there, the magic of sugar continued to spread westward. In India, sugar cane was refined into the form we know today, sugar.

How to make sugar from sugar cane was a secret process, passed carefully from masters to apprentices, but by 600 A.D. the rulers of the Persian Empire were dazzling their guests with all sorts of sugared treats.

The conquering Arab armies were themselves enthralled by sugar, and they took both the plants and the knowledge of how to refine sugar home with them. Wherever they went, the Arabs brought with them sugar, the product and the technology of its production, wrote Sidney Mintz in Sweetness and Power (Viking Press, 1985).

The Arabs also turned sugar production from a secret art into an industry. The work was so physically difficult that slaves and prisoners of war made up the bulk of the workforce. The European Crusaders who returned home brought with them memories of sugar, and European noblemen began to trade with the Muslim caliphs for sugar since it couldnt be grown in Europe.

The amount available was very small, and sugar was considered a luxury spice. As the Ottoman Empire spread in the 1400s, trade with the Mid-East became much more difficult, and sugar was very scarce in Europe.