How to break your family’s sugar habit for good . . .

Sugar is addictive in the same way that alcohol is addictive. Sugar as in sucrose is less addictive but we consume it in such large amounts. “The same parts of the brain that light up with alcohol light up with sugary drinks. “People will not let
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Here’s some more insight from the Daily Mail into how much sugar is in everyday foods..places where perhaps you wouldn’t expect to find it.

‘Using the food professionals’ bible – McCance and Widdowson’s The Composition Of Foods, containing accurate, lab-tested nutritional breakdowns for about 1,200 of the most commonly consumed foods in the UK – we compared the sugar content of some of today’s most commonly bought supermarket products with those listed in the 1978 edition (when often no brand names were given)…’