Welcome to My Year Without

On January 1, 2008, I made a New Year's resolution to cut out refined sugar for one year. I cut out white refined sugar and corn syrups. My quest to be sugar-free evolved into political interest, public health, and letter writing to food manufacturers. Join me in sugar sleuthing, and learn more about the psychological aspects of sugar addiction, and those who push sugar on us.

Showing posts with label crazysexylife. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crazysexylife. Show all posts

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Welcome Crazy Sexy Life-ers!

A warm welcome to those of you new to my blog!

I woke up this morning and was excited to see that CrazySexyLife had posted an article I wrote for them. It's a brief overview of going without sugar...

So now that you're here, (and some of you are working on a New Year's resolution to give up sugar) I've dedicated this post to help you find what you need, quickly.


This Table of Contents should help
. (I gathered a few of my favorite posts...):

FAVORITE RECIPES: World's Best Gingersnaps, Mounds Bars, Peanut Butter Rice Crispie Treats, Pear Tart, Nori Roll, Easy Tabouli, and more..... See the list to the right.

ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS: Random Info, Mayo Clinic, Splenda, Truvia, Sucralose-Splenda, Artificial Sweeteners, Aspartame, Mannitol, Maltitol

HOW TO'S & TIPS: Tips for Sugar Addicts, How To Quit, How To Pass on Dessert, How & Why to Cut Sugar, Get Through the Holidays, Hide Your Twinkies!, Your Kitchen

INTERESTING FACTS: Coca-Cola, A Word on Sweetness, Harvard's Food Pyramid, USDA Food Pyramid, More Pyramid Facts, Definitions, Alcohol, Cereal, Center for Consumer Deceit

MOTIVATIONAL MATERIAL: Don't Eat This Book, List of Books, Sugarettes, Mindless Eating, Sugar Addiction, The End of Overeating, Psychology of Sugar, Video: Sugar & Disease, Video: Sugar Addiction

STORIES: Chocolate Cake, Inspirational, Down with Cool Whip, The Great Debate, Carbs, Honey & The Difficulty of Being Sugar-Free


I hope you've enjoyed this site. I would love to hear from you and what your goals are!

Thursday, November 19, 2009

A Fascinating Blog: Crazy Sexy Life

I have just stumbled upon an incredible blog called Crazy Sexy Life. It appeared with a list of other blogs mentioning "refined sugar" in my Google alerts. Just when I thought the fog and gray sky were going to get the best of me today, I happened upon this great find.

Today's article focuses on inflammation; what it is, diseases it's linked to, and an "Anti-Inflammatory Plan" to help you get started. One of the steps to reducing inflammation is giving sugar the boot, of course. "Reduce or eliminate refined sugars and carbohydrates. Refined sugar disrupts immune and digestive function, which contributes to inflammation."

I'd also like to note that the "blog posse" is totally worth reading. These are the contributors, with short, very interesting bios on each person. This is a fascinating, well-rounded blog worth your time.