This is what will Happen if You Give Up Eating Sugar for 3 Days

This is what will Happen if You Give Up Eating Sugar for 3 Days

According to the American Heart Association (AHA) , the body does not need any added sugar to function healthily. Naturally occurring sugars come with a variety of nutrients that the body needs to stay healthy. For example, alongside fructose, fruit contains fiber and various vitamins and minerals.

Where Sugar Is Found In Your Diet

• Sugar is found naturally in fruit, vegetables (fructose) and dairy foods (lactose).
• It’s also added to food and drink by food manufacturers, or by ourselves at home.
• These types of added sugars are called ‘free sugars’ and they are also present in pure fruit juices, smoothies, syrups and honey.
• The debate about sugar and health is mainly around free sugars.

This includes:

• table sugar that we add to our hot drinks or breakfast cereal
• caster sugar, used in baking
• sugars hidden in sauces, ready meals, cakes and drinks.
• honey and syrups, like golden syrup or agave syrup
• pure fruit juice
• smoothies.

Humans need glucose to survive. Of course, having too much sugar will lead to weight gain, blood sugar problems and an increased risk of heart disease, among other dangerous conditions. But, glucose is essential to our body. This idea that sugar is inherently bad for you is a myth.

• Untreated high blood sugar can lead to a condition called glucotoxicity (sometimes called glucose toxicity).
• It’s caused by damaged beta cells.
• Beta cells help your body create and release a hormone called insulin.
• Insulin pulls sugar (also called glucose) out of your blood so your cells can use it for energy.

What Happens To Your Body When You Stop Eating Sugar For 3 Days

• Many people experience fatigue, headaches, or even a feeling of sadness or depression as signs that your body is adjusting to the now low levels of glucose, dopamine, and serotonin.
• After a week or so, your energy will begin to improve, and you will feel more alive and less irritable.

How much sugar is OK in a day?

• Men: 150 calories per day (37.5 grams or 9 teaspoons)
• Women: 100 calories per day (25 grams or 6 teaspoons)

Sugar and Death

Sugar has become infamous in the American diet, leading to a severe rise in cases of type 2 diabetes. Opioids kill over 100 people a day. But sugar, which is just as addictive and even more deadly. Type 2 diabetes alone kills at least twice as many Americans as opioid overdoses on any given day.

According to a report by The Journal of the American Medical Association, people who get between 17 and 21 percent of their daily calories from added sugar had their chance of dying from heart disease raised by 38 percent.

With heart disease as the number one killer, it makes sense to do what you can to lower your risk.

So when you stop eating sugar you start looking after your heart!

How Does Sugar Destroy The Body?

• High doses of sugar can make the liver go into overdrive: The way our bodies metabolize fructose can stress out and inflame the organ.
• That’s one reason excess fructose is called a “key player” in the development of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, where fat accumulates throughout the liver.

What Sugar Actually Does To Your Brain And Body?

• Throughout the body, excess sugar is harmful.
• Even a single instance of elevated glucose in the bloodstream can be harmful to the brain, resulting in slowed cognitive function and deficits in memory and attention.

Should We Quit Sugar?

But you don’t need to quit sugar to lift your game on healthy eating. Quitting sugar is unlikely to improve your health any more than cutting down on ultra-processed foods, eating more vegetables, cooking food from scratch and limiting how much extra sugar you eat and drink

What Can You Eat When You Give Up Sugar?

Here are  foods that can help you fight your sugar cravings.

• Fruit. When most people feel sugar cravings, they reach for high-fat, high-sugar foods like chocolate ( 1 ). …
• Berries. …
• Dark Chocolate. …
• Snack Bars. …
• Chia Seeds. …
• Sugar-Free Chewing Gum or Mints. …
• Legumes. …
• Yogurt.
• Banana Oat Energy Bars.
• Grated carrots and apple combine with mashed banana,
• unsweetened applesauce, rolled oats, and chopped peanuts. …
• Quick Black Bean Hummus. …
• Gourmet Microwave Popcorn. …
• Hatch Chile Salsa. …
• Baked Tortilla Chips. …
• Guacamole. …
• Roasted Chickpeas. …
• Super Easy Hummus.

Best Low-Sugar Fruits

• Lemons (and limes)
• Raspberries.
• Strawberries.
• Blackberries.
• Kiwis.
• Grapefruit.
• Avocado.
• Watermelon.

How long does it take to get rid of a sugar addiction?

• Some studies have suggested that sugar is as addictive as Cocaine.
• People often enjoy the dopamine release that sugar brings.
• But due to the addictive nature of sugar, long-term health effects like obesity and diabetes are a risk of sugar overindulgence
•  Sugar promotes more sugar cravings, which can make it very difficult to just stop eating altogether.
• It takes about three to four weeks for your brain and body to eliminate cravings for sweets, and begin craving healthier foods that satisfy more of your actual nutritional needs

Is there medication to stop sugar cravings?

• A new study from the Queensland University of Technology used varenicline to treat sugar addiction. Varenicline is usually used to treat nicotine addiction, and is sold under the brand names Chantix and Champix.
• It does this by stimulating the body’s nicotine receptors, but more weakly than nicotine.

 What Could Happen When You Stop Eating Sugar?

1. You’ll get better skin and look younger.
2. Increased energy levels.
3. Weight loss.
4. Better sleep.
5. Increased immune system so less colds.
6. No more bad breath.
7. Better gum and teeth health.
8. Fewer mood swings.
9. Overall increased feeling of happiness.
10. Reduced risk of type 2 diabetes.
11. Lowered chance of getting cancer.
12. Fewer joint and muscle aches.
13. Raised testosterone means better sex.
14. Reduced stress on your liver.
15. Fewer fatty organs.
16. A healthier heart.
17. An improved memory.

slim on a permanent basis, and as a bonus you’ll have overall better health, more energy, and great skin and hair.You’ll no longer feel the need to check the calorie intake for everything you’re buying. Yet your waist will be the first thing to decrease in size.

If you give up sugar for as little as three days, you’ll soon notice a new feeling of satiety, and consequently you’ll feel satisfied despite eating less food. Many people who try this say they no longer want to eat a large supper and don’t even think about food until the next day’s breakfast.

It’s during this early “sugar withdrawal” stage that both mental and physical symptoms have been reported – including depression, anxiety, brain fog and cravings, alongside headaches, fatigue and dizziness.

A Rough Three-Day Sugar Free Menu

Breakfast

• Scrambled eggs with ham or bacon
• Boiled eggs with a small amount of mayonnaise Coffee with cream
• Cottage cheese (no less than 5% fat) with berries
• Pancakes made with almond flour A salad with green vegetables and olives

Lunch

• Meat dishes: meat cutlets, meat fried with onion
• Soups (excluding the carbs, apart from potato and beans)
• Salads (made with any vegetables and with vegetable oil)
• Fish dishes (excluding anything with large amounts of carbohydrates)

Dinner

• Roasted vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, bell peppers)Thick sauce made from eggs and prawns Toast with avocado and salmon Any of the options from breakfast
• Remember that any of these meal choices are interchangeable, and you should eat as much as you want and whenever you feel like doing so. Don’t be afraid to experiment and to try preparing ordinary food in new ways.
• If you stick to this system for a while, you’ll be surprised to discover that you’ve dropped several clothes sizes. At the same time you’ll feel hungry less often, will be free of problems with your intestine and/or blood pressure, and be more energetic.
• Most importantly, this method can put you in charge of your body and your life.
  Plus, you’ll want to eat less cake.

Does sugar cause diabetes?

• There are two main types of diabetes – type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
• We know that sugar does not cause type 1 diabetes, nor is it caused by anything else in your lifestyle.
• In type 1 diabetes, the insulin producing cells in your pancreas are destroyed by your immune system.
• With type 2 diabetes, the answer is a little more complex.
• Though we know sugar doesn’t directly cause type 2 diabetes, you are more likely to get it if you are overweight.
• You gain weight when you take in more calories than your body needs, and sugary foods and drinks contain a lot of calories.
• So you can see if too much sugar is making you put on weight, then you are increasing your risk of getting type 2 diabetes.
• But type 2 diabetes is complex, and sugar is unlikely to be the only reason the condition develops.

We also know that sugar sweetened drinks, like canned soft drinks, are associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, and this is not necessarily linked to their effect on body weight.

What Are The 5 Worst Foods For Diabetics?

1. Sugar-sweetened beverages. Sugary beverages are the worst drink choice for someone with diabetes. …
2. Trans fats. Artificial trans fats are extremely unhealthy. …
3. White bread, rice, and pasta. …
4. Fruit-flavored yogurt. …
5. Sweetened breakfast cereals. …
6. Flavored coffee drinks. …
7. Honey, agave nectar, and maple syrup. …
8. Dried fruit.

Source Andreas Eenfeldt, LCHF

BOTTOM LINE

• Food labels are the best way to work out how much sugar is in what you’re eating. The figures for sugar are for the total sugar in that food item, and don’t tell you how much of the sugar comes from natural sources, such as in fruit, and how much comes from free sugar.
• Some foods and drink don’t have the word ‘sugar’ in the ingredients list, but still have sugar added. Honey, sucrose, glucose, glucose syrup, dextrose, fructose, hydrolysed starch, corn and maize syrup are all free sugars. If you see any of these words on the ingredients list, you know sugar has been added.