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Sugar Free Foodie Me sharing my experience of being sugar free. Including but not limited to recieps, daily meals, ins She stated that fructose was the ‘enemy’.

About Me | Trudy Jensen
Food, nutrition and health have always been an interest of mine. I'm well known among my family and friends for cooking and baking. I have been baking with my mum and my sister since before I could see over the kitchen counter. But, as you can image I have always been somewhat overweight, even as a kid. When I was 13 or 14 ish I developed an interest is what made us fat. None of the usual ‘diets’ really made sense to me but I tried a few of them now and then. I would lose weight and gain weight, feel health and feel horrible. At some point I came to the conclusion that if I just tried to eat whole foods that came from nature I would probably be healthy regardless of my weight, and that’s what I did… except for ‘treat’ foods. I couldn’t kick my chocolate addiction nor could I pass up a good blueberry and cream cheese muffin. The overpowering ‘need’ to have these foods was just too much for my willpower to cope with. So I got interesting in being sugar free after flicking thought a few pages of Sarah Wilson book ‘I quit sugar’ at the local bookshop. This confused me as fructose is the main sugar found in fruit. How could fruit be bad for us? Well in short it's not (read The F-word for more info on fructose). I also read about how fructose alters our appetite which renders willpower next to useless. This made sense to me (and made me feel better about the entire block of chocolate that I had just consumed)

I didn’t intend on starting my sugar-free diet for a few weeks but after doing some research on fructose I just couldn’t eat it any more. Thus the sugar free foodie was created. The idea is to eat anything that has less than 3-6g of sugar per 100g. There are a few exceptions to this rule. First is dairy product. The first 4.8g/100g of sugar in milk is lactose so any dairy product that has less then 7.8g of sugar is ok but try for no added sugar whatsoever if you can. The second is drinks. Basically no sugar should be consumed in drink form. So stick to water or milk. The reason for this is because even having a drink with 3g of sugar 100mls means that in a 250ml glass you have a total of 8-9g of sugar which is two teaspoons. It's creeps up on you really quickly when in liquid form.

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04/10/2021

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Don't be fooled by our bought-and-paid-for 'Health' Star Sytem. These two drinks are not equivelent. Go for the one without the 6 teaspoons of sugar.

21/09/2021

Study’s lead author says evidence shows ‘type of dietary fat, or the source of dietary fat, is actually more important than the amount’

26/08/2021

Researchers are finally uncovering the exact ways that sugar disrupts the GI tract

04/08/2021

Vegetable oils are highly unstable. When they interact with oxygen, they release neurotoxic, DNA mutating aldehydes - similar to the ones released when to***co is burned - which are known to cause cancer (at least).

Every day there are thousands of teenagers standing over vats of frying canola oil for 8 hour shifts at every fast food restaurant in this country. Every day, there are people cooking with high temperature seed oils in their homes. And every day there are industrial quantities of heated seed oil being poured into commercial baked and frozen foods.

You can’t stop the food processors putting these carcinogens in your food and you can’t stop the Heart Foundation and the Cancer Council encouraging them to do so, but you sure can stop that food being put in you.

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31/07/2021

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Ice-cream for breakfast? Perhaps not but it has similar sugar levels to 'health' foods like Sultana Bran.

Even better, one of the teaspoons of sugar in the Ice-cream is from the milk, and so does not contain the deadly fructose component present in abundance in the sultanas (dried grapes) used to sweeten the cereal.

17/06/2021

The health-conscious athlete held up a bottle of water and said, "Agua."

22/12/2020

Would anyone be interested in low carb/keto 'mentoring' for health and weight loss? Would cost about $10 a week and includes full access to an app for logging etc..

05/12/2020

the coca-cola company, PepsiCo and nestlé have been ranked as the world’s top plastic polluters for the 3rd consecutive year.

09/06/2019

(HealthDay)—Lowering serum cholesterol levels in patients with type 2 diabetes is associated with diabetic polyneuropathy (DPN), according to a study published online May 31 in JAMA Network Open.

09/06/2019

Most people have heard that sugar is unhealthy, but how exactly does it work against your good mental health? When you eat concentrated sources of rapidly-digestible carbohydrates such as sugar, flour, fruit juice, and processed cereal products, your blood sugar (glucose) can spike sharply.

08/06/2019

The worldwide obesity epidemic could be tackled by better understanding of how insulin works, according to a world leading expert on intermittent fasting and low carb diets.

10/06/2018

Nestle's 'Health Science' has helped shape our dietary and health guidelines over the years, encouraging health professionals (doctors, dietitians and pharmascists) to recommend Optifast to patients/clients as a very low calorie supplement drink for weight loss.

With over 4 teaspoons of sugar per serve and a sh*tstorm of ingredients (listed below) I am not so sure the convenience of Nestle's pre-prepared sachets fulfil the health claims?

I choose to reduce sugar and processed carbohydrates from my diet.

Sure ... preparing fresh food takes a bit more time, but for me and my family's health, it is worth it!

How do you make time for health?

BTW, just take a look at the ingredients list:

Skimmed Milk Powder (31%), Milk Proteins [Calcium Caseinate (20%), Sodium Caseinate (10%)], Maltodextrin (Corn), Vegetable Oil (Canola, Sunflower), Minerals (Potassium Citrate, Magnesium Carbonate, Calcium Phosphate, Sodium Chloride, Potassium Phosphate, Ferric Pyrophosphate, Copper Gluconate, Zinc Sulphate, Manganese Sulphate, Sodium Fluoride, Potassium Iodide, Sodium Molybdate, Sodium Selenite, Chromium Chloride), Vegetable Gum (414), Fructo-Oligosaccharide, Inulin, Medium Chain Triglycerides, Glucose Syrup (Corn), Sugar, Fish Oil, Flavour, Emulsifiers (472c, Soy Lecithin, 471), Sweeteners (Aspartame, Acesulfame Potassium), Antioxidants (301, 304, 306), Vitamins (Vitamin E Acetate, Nicotinamide, Calcium Pantothenate, Sodium Ascorbate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Thiamine Hydrochloride, Vitamin A Acetate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid, Phytomenadione, Cholecalciferol, Cyanocobalamin, Biotin), Colour (Curcumin).
Contains Milk, Soy and Fish. Contains Phenylalanine. May contain Egg. Gluten-free.

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