Is Sugar the Source of All Our Woes?
What’s the real scoop about the snowy white sweet stuff?
I gave up sugar around Thanksgiving. It was a long-overdue breakup. It had been years since I felt any type of real excitement over Mr. Sweetness. For a long time I’d suspected he wasn’t just making me tired and fat. It wasn’t just the way he crudely manhandled my body. Maybe, I thought, he was doing something even worse.
So, it’s been about three months. I’ve seen him once or twice since the breakup. But it just isn’t the same any more. I know it’s too soon to really tell how much I’ve improved my life by saying farewell to this low-value partner.
But things are better.
Calories are NOT Equal
As we know by now, the number on the scale isn’t the sole determinant of health and well-being. It might not even be the primary one, yet for most of our lives, our weight has been the primary measure of not just health, but also attractiveness, social status, and often, earning potential.
I grew up in an era when poor children had plenty of access to sweets, but not to dental care. There weren’t too many fat kids in my rural elementary school, but there were quite a few with bad teeth. Our school was right across the street from the “Rock House,” a country…
