Sugar Detox: The Sugar Detox Book with Sugar Detox Recipes

By Pamela Chavez

Sugar Detox: The Sugar Detox Book With Sugar Detox Recipes The Sugar Detox Diet is a recipe book filled with sugar free recipes. These are sugar detox recipes to eat if you wish to stop sugar cravings completely. The sugar detox diet is perfect for those who wish to wean from sugar and who wish to cleanse their bodies from the harmful effects from sugary foods. The best way to do a sugar detox diet is simply to avoid sugar. This means you must avoid processed foods, junk foods, and most conveniently packaged foods. These foods are often high in sugar. The Sugar Detox Diet book contains 6 sections plus an informative introduction and a bonus 10 day diet plan which includes some of the recipes found within this book. The sections included are Sugar Free Breakfast Recipes, Sugar Free Main Dish Recipes, Sugar Free Side Dish Recipes, Sugar Free Appetizers and Dessert Recipes, and Sugar Free Drinks Recipes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Healthy Lifestyles
• Release date: May 15, 2017
• ISBN: 9781633831735

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Sugar Detox

The Sugar Detox Book With Sugar Detox Recipes

Pamela Chavez and Susan Mullins

Copyright © 2013 Pamela Chavez and Susan Mullins

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Introduction

The sugar detox diet is designed to stop the sugar cravings and to cleanse the body of all forms of sugar. Sugar is very addictive and can cause a host of health issues. Sugar addiction causes excessive weight gain, high blood sugar, greater chances of developing type II diabetes (especially if diabetes runs in your family), a sluggish metabolism, cloudy mental capacity, lethargy, moodiness, and more. The ill health effects alone should be reason enough to stop a sugar addiction. Consuming excessive sugar also weakens the immune system and hinders the body's ability to fight infections.

Why do a sugar detox on the body?

The very first thing that occurs within the body in the absence of sugar is the increase in metabolism, a boost in energy. This happens because instead of the sugar giving a false boost of energy that later result in a lethargic crash, you will derive your energy from the nutritious foods you eat. Sugar consumption increases the inflammation within the body, which leads to high cholesterol, diabetes, and hypertension.

Overcoming Sugar Addiction

Obviously, the first thing to do to overcome a sugar addiction is to stop consuming it. This may be difficult if there is a real addiction. Food addiction is as strong as addiction to other harmful substances like cigarettes, alcohol, and recreational drugs. If you stop the sugar cold turkey, you will likely experience a major withdrawal from sugar. There are a couple of ways to wean from sugar. You can do one, the other, or a combination of both. You know your body best and know what you can probably handle.

The first way to wean from sugar is to do a slow elimination. This method helps to let go of the sugar slowly while giving the body a chance to readjust to less and less sugar. If you stop sugar all at once without some sort of relief, you will have horrible withdrawal symptoms. These symptoms include an intense craving for more sugar, moodiness, blood sugar fluctuations which will directly affect your cognitive behavior, and headache. All the withdrawal symptoms are very unpleasant and weaning slowly helps to avoid these symptoms or just to experience them to a much lesser degree.

Take a day or two (or even a week) to journal your eating habits. Come up with a round figure of how many times a day you consume junk food and in particular any food with sugar. Ideally, the body weans from a bad habit within about three weeks. It takes that long to break a bad habit and replace it with a good habit. With this in mind, stop eating one item of sugar every three days. Keep going until you have completely stopped the sugar. Instead of going without food, practice these rules while you wean. Only eat when hungry, and when hungry replace the sugary snack with a healthy food.

The second way to wean from a sugar addiction is to replace the sugared food with sugar free food. Ideally, you will want to replace it with a healthy snack such as nuts or fruit. But you can also replace it with a recipe from the dessert section of this book. If your body thinks