The Many Benefits of Not Eating Sugar
(and How to Enjoy Naturally Sweeteners Instead!)
In the health food blog archives below, you’ll find articles covering everything you’ve ever wondered about sugar! However, here’s a quick introduction to help you get started. (And perhaps inspired to start eating healthier foods!)
First, it’s helpful to understand the difference between various types of sugar. For example, natural fruit sugar is much healthier than refined sugar. Refined sugar is an additive in many cereals and other packaged foods.
There are many benefits of not eating sugar, including:
- Eliminates the risk of the proven drug-like addiction to refined sugar, which often results in a binge and crash cycle, as well as intense cravings
- Helps diminish belly fat and also helps curb obesity/weight gain
- Decreases symptoms of depression and anxiety
- Promotes healthier, younger-looking skin
- Reduces your risk risk for diabetes
Instead of refined sugar, try:
- Natural sugar alternatives, like a coconut palm sugar substitute or a date sugar substitute
- Water with freshly-squeezed lemon or lime instead of sugary sodas
- Low sugar cereals, such as organic Mu Mu Muesli
- Natural fruit sugar snacks (A handful of dried dates is a fantastic example, and raisins work well too.)
- Healthy vegan smoothie bowls (A healthy way to satisfy your cravings for something sweet as well as pack a bunch of fiber, vitamins, and other important nutrients into one meal!)
- Instead of table sugar, aim to use the best sugar substitute for coffee (Xylitol, erythritol, birch sugar, and coconut palm granules are all great options!)
Because of eating too much of the sweet stuff, America has had a huge spike in obesity, heart disease, and diabetes.
It hits 3pm and you get smacked with that mid afternoon slump. You want to run to the corner coffee shop and snag one of those chocolate croissants with a large vanilla latte to satisfy the sugar craving that has struck. You know this is no good for you, and that what you want to consume consists of “empty calories”. As an intelligent human being, you even recognize that after consuming this, getting slapped with an intense sugar crash and burn is inevitable.
