Public Enemy Number 1: SUGAR

It’s a cultural myth that we need sugar to live. Processed sugars (beet and cane sugars in any form) are what I’m referring to. The body needs energy to live, energy is provided by enzymes, refined sugars are stripped of enzymes. Refined sugars and flour are simply chemicals; they taste good and make you feel good for a while so we think sugars benefits us, when really they are depleting us.  We have to use the energy, vitamins, and minerals from the healthy food we metabolism to digest, store, eliminate, and detoxify our organs from the effects of sugar. It causes imbalances in our systems that affect our brains, our hormones, our livers, pancreas, stomach, allergies, and moods. If you were to go without food for 40 days and had only water and sugar to subsist on, you would die faster if you had water and sugar rather than water alone. Refined sugar is the slow secret body deteriorating agent of our age, and its lurking in every corner on this continent.
And sugar slowly did a number on me that took me years to figure out.
C.S. Lewis said that "courage is not simply one of the virtues, it’s the form of every virtue at the testing point." It takes exorbitant amounts of courage to stop eating sugar. It’s everywhere, and most believe it’s harmless to ingest. You are faced with going against the cultural grain in almost every way when you stand against sugar, it’s nearly as bad as standing in the face of the devil and defending your religion. It is public enemy Number One.