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Category Archives: Sugar
Foods with Hidden Sugar
When you are avoiding sugar to improve your health, you should understand the different names that manufacturers use for this sweet substance. Here is a list of the names used for the added sugar in foods and beverages: • Fructose...
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The Stages of Quitting Sugar
When you read magazines and health reports online, you are given the picture that quitting sugar is a simple one step process. Just find or use an alternative and quitting can happen overnight. The truth with this is that there are actually stages...
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What You Need to Know About Artificial Sweeteners
Since the 1970s, a new food trend came about with the goal to reduce sugar intake in people. Functional Medicine Burbank believed that this was a way for people to more easily manage weight, and the idea was that less sugar means fewer calories, and...
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What Is Sugar Addiction? Everything You Need to Know
Food addictions can lead to obesity and complications, such as diabetes and high blood pressure. Unfortunately, when people think about their health as it relates to food, they rarely think about sugar as being the core issue. They think about...
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