So Much Sugar in Two Years!

Someone told me recently that we are entering the sugar season and that our culture is “profoundly youthful and immature” in relation to how we eat during the holiday season. With the rate of disease linked to the Standard American Diet (SAD), I would have to agree. Given the speed at which addictive symptoms begin, sugar pretty much is a drug – a drug that brings so much disease and death. Here are the links to the posts that I have made regarding sugar and the havoc, destruction and death it can bring (along with a few healthy holiday recipes). It still amazes me that two days of elevated refined sugar consumption can whack out my kid the way it did!

What amazes as much is that my little family knowingly fell for the sugar trap over and over again and was sick from it. The blog posts below, written over the last two years, prove it. I had no idea and it is telling to see our stumbles, as we eat less sugar than almost anyone I know. It is clear that we will probably not completely knock out the sugar from diet, and a couple of downfalls a year isn’t bad, but I would like to do better for myself. The comfort I take is that we know how to eat to rebound from these downfalls, and Colson is learning the tools for healing should he decide one day to abandon our way of eating and then have a need to come back.

What to do about Halloween candy?

Bone Broth – It’s for breakfast, lunch and dinner!

A Thanksgiving Foible and Achievement

A Holiday Cookie Replacement

Pumpkin Pie with Whipped Cream

Sugar Woes and Victories

Apple Cranberry Crisp for Christmas – I just made this the other day and it is so good!

The Ice Cream Cake Test

Chocolate Coconut Cookie Recipe – So Good You Could Cry!

And then the Raisins Struck

Ryan’s Raisin Update – and Living Your Life in Balance

Recovering from Colson’s Two Week Birthday Bash!

Real Food, Sugar Addiction and Freedom

The Definition of Insanity - Part 2

Dump the Processed Food

Natural Sweeteners – Which Ones Are Good for You?

A Doctor Gets It (Food)!

Sugar Under Attack in Mainstream Medicine, Finally!

With Every Bite You Eat…

A Corollary to “Every Bite You Eat”

Sugar Slammed in NY!

Post-Thanksgiving Update and Confession of Food Transgressions

Weekly Eye Opener - Fecal Bacteria in Soda Fountains

Ryan’s Mom Passed Away This Morning

Weekly Eye Opener – Sugar Conspiracy

Agave Nectar and other Sugar Dangers Explained

A Friend’s Life Changing Journey with Food

Sugar – It is Always Something New and Horrific

Birthday Cake Buries Colson

Unintended Food Experiments - Again!

Sugar Grows Cancer – Thank You UCLA!

Sneezing with Every Bite He Ate

More Food Challenges – the Bad Stuff

Comments

[Noelia]

So concise and precise. Awesome post! I love your blog and have benefited tons from it. Now I have homework, to review your pasts posts in prep for the season. It never occurred to me that this was such a season! Noelia.

[Medical Accidents]

Very inereting post.All points are explained to the point.Links are awesome.So much sugars are injurious to health.After reading your article i hope my health will be fine in this festival season.