{"id":2720,"date":"2009-04-16T08:03:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T08:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=2720"},"modified":"2009-04-16T08:03:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T08:03:13","slug":"on_sugar_and_su","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/on_sugar_and_su\/","title":{"rendered":"on sugar and survival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>fifty days ago, on a whim inspired by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Spent-Exhaustion-Feel-Great-Again\/dp\/1416549412\/ref=nosim\/albinogiraffe-20\">book i was reading<\/a> at the time, i gave up most forms of sugar and all forms of artificial sweeteners.  it was an interesting experiment.  these are my observations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>i didn&#8217;t miss sugar at all.   with the more healthful alternatives i was allowed (raw honey, organic maple syrup &#038; agave nectar), i got by just fine day to day.<\/li>\n<li>what i did miss was the flexibility to eat whatever i wanted whenever i wanted.  i said &#8220;i can&#8217;t eat that&#8221; a lot and that kind of restriction started to chafe after a month.<\/li>\n<li>my breath got a lot better.  i&#8217;ve always known that my mouth would get a gross coated feeling after i ate something really sugary, but i guess i didn&#8217;t think about what would happen once i got all the sugar out of my system.  this was good because i couldn&#8217;t chew gum or eat mints to cover up any bad breath.<\/li>\n<li>sugar hides in almost every processed food item you can imagine.  seriously, here&#8217;s just a few names it can use:  maltose, barley malt, maltodextrin, dextrose, fruit juice concentrate, succinate.<\/li>\n<li>i lost about four pounds without even trying.  it was a wholly unintended consequence, but it makes sense, since the sugar-added things i was avoiding were mostly high-calorie things.<\/li>\n<li>okay, i cheated a little.   i ate some processed foods which probably contained sugar.  also, when my knee borked out i had some pity chocolate and after giving blood i ate cookies.  and, boy, did i pay for it!  the day after giving blood, i had THE WORST headache ever.  ohmygod.<\/li>\n<li>if it hadn&#8217;t been for this experiment, i might never have discovered i actually LIKE steel-cut oatmeal.   i&#8217;d say that&#8217;s totally worth it right there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>four days ago, i ate sugar again.  boy, did i eat sugar again.  and, you know what?  i&#8217;ve felt like ass the entire four days.<br \/>\nin conclusion (boy, i haven&#8217;t used that to start a final paragraph since about 1992), removing sugar &#038; sweeteners from my diet for 46 days was a Very Good Thing.  i&#8217;m glad i did it and i think, overall, there will be a lot less sugar in my diet in the future.   it&#8217;s just empty calories which react badly in my body and i&#8217;m all about making my body happy these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>fifty days ago, on a whim inspired by the book i was reading at the time, i gave up most forms of sugar and all forms of artificial sweeteners. it was an interesting experiment. these are my observations: i didn&#8217;t miss sugar at all. with the more healthful alternatives i was allowed (raw honey, organic <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/on_sugar_and_su\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}