made with refined sugar, corn syrup, dextrose, sucrose, and hydrogenated oil.
Gluten free cookies/biscuits, sweetened with fruit, rice/maple syrup, or palm sugar. Avoid cookies with damaged oils. Coconut, amaranth, and quinoa flour are healthy options. www.goraw.com http://www.eatright.co.nz/
Gluten-free, whole grain cakes, pies, muffins or cheese cakes, sweetened with fruit, rice/maple syrup, or palm sugar, and free of damaged oils/fats. (Keep consumption to a minimum).
Whole grain brown rice crackers free of sugar, damaged oils, and MSG. www.edwardandsons.com, www.glutenfreeshop.com.au (Eat Rite), www.goraw.com, www.ceresorganics.co.nz to name a few.
Chutneys, Jellies, jams, or cranberry sauce sweetened with fruit, or palm sugar, in small quantities.
When a recipe calls for sugar, replace it with natural sweeteners, such as date sugar, palm sugar, coconut sugar, unsulphured molasses, rice syrup (Lundberg) made from whole brown rice, unrefined maple syrup, unboiled honey, or natural stevia. Deserts can always be sweetened moderately with these natural sweeteners, which do not cause an insulin spike.
The more fiber a natural sweet contains the less it will cause an insulin spike. Thus, it is always better to consume the whole fruit instead of fruit juice, and a salad or vegetable juice with the pulp, instead of just vegetable juice.
If you crave something sweet, it is usually an indication that your sodium-potassium ratio is out of balance, and you need more potassium rich foods. It could also be an indication that your adrenal glands and pancreas are depleted (burn-out) and not functioning properly (e.g. hormonal imbalance).
To overcome sugar cravings, consume quality protein, high fiber, and healthy fatty foods early in the day; supplement with chromium nicotinate or chromium picolinate and essential fatty acids in balance (Omega Nutrition flax seed oil); and seek a good nutritionist to help restore the function of your adrenal glands and pancreas. Also get sufficient sleep and plenty of natural, full spectrum daylight and sunshine. The time it takes to overcome a sweet treat addiction and the scourge of sugar will depend on how well you nourish your body, your genetics, and a great deal of will power.
RECOMMENDED READING:
“Get the Sugar Out” by Ann Louise Gittleman
“Food, Teens, and Behavior” and “Food and Behavior” by Barbara Reed, PhD 1983 and 2009
“Nutrition and Physical Degeneration” by Weston A Price, DDS, Keats Publishers, 1939, 2008, 2010
“Potatoes Not Prozac” by Kathleen Des Maisons, PhD
“Sweets Are Not Treats” by Carla Cassata, NC “Let’s Live” 1988
“Sweet Poison” with Dr. Eric Stice, Univ. of Oregon, Sixty Minutes TV, 8 June 2012
“Sugar Blues” by William Duffy, Warner Books 1986
“Sugar: The Bitter Truth Summary” with Prof. Robert Lustig, MD, USSF Division of Endocrinology & Metabolism, 30 July 2009, US Berkley Dept. of Nutritional Sciences
Dr. Jean Mac Schwartz, PhD, Sharon Fleming, PhD, Lorene Ritchie, PhD
“The Blood Solution” by Mark Hyman 2012, University of CA, San Francisco, Dr. Christine Horner, Harvard University
“The Fat Flush Plan & Program” by Ann Louise Gittleman
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