Should we QUIT SUGAR?
Sugar is the villain of the day in the health and wellness sector. Slowly but surely fats are shedding their bad-boy status, and sugar is taking over as the most detrimental dietary ingredient to our waistlines, health and general wellbeing.
We outline the bad rap sugar has been attracting and look into the question on everybody’s taste buds – should we banish it from our diet once and for all?
The book Sweet Poison: Why Sugar is Making Us Fat by David Gillespie, published in 2008, marked a turning point in the way we consider sugar consumption. In the book, Gillespie investigated the relationship between sugar, the ever-increasing obesity rates of the Western world and the most prevalent diseases in the 21st century.
It was Gillespie’s personal story, however, that set people on the path of quitting sugar. From being
