"Ah sugar, ah honey honey. You are my candy girl, and you've got me wanting you."  The Archies may have been describing a relationship with their lyrics, but that’s been me with my relationship to actual sugar.  

 

I love added sugar.  5 years ago, I easily would:

• Down 3-4 large glasses of Dr. Pepper with a great Tex-Mex meal (150-200 g. of added sugar)

• Gobble full pints of ice cream in a sitting (100 g of sugar)

• Chomp 8 servings of cereal- “it was only 2 bowls,” despite the box’s nutrition content being based on ½ - 1 cup of cereal- (60-80 g. Of added sugar)

• Finish a pound cake within a few days- just for the record, it’s called a “pound cake” because it historically has been made with a pound of added sugar (75 g. Of sugar per MY serving)

 

I didn’t think much about it. Once I began to shift from a trim guy in my young 20’s to borderline overweight/obese by my late 20’s, I was introduced to research on the deleterious effects of consuming so much added sugar in my diet.  But I also gained maybe the most crucial part of any health advice....

The New & Improved 
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(This post, "Sugar, Yes Please," is a General Mental Health post.)

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