You might be surprised to learn that Joy, a Holistic Nutritionist, used to be a sugar addict. It was only later in life that she learned that the sugar-free foods she was consuming and her diet at the time was a big reason for it. If you currently feel addicted to sugar, don't worry – there is hope with the strategies I share in this episode!

In this episode we discuss:

 

• How sugar makes food addictive (and how food manufacturers take advantage of this)
• Joy's sugar addiction story and how she broke her addiction to sugar
• Joy and Walker's relationship with sugar as kids
• How much sugar the average North American consumed then and now
• The industrialization of food and how it has altered food for the worse
• Why sugar is considered to be as addictive as drugs
• The many negative effects of sugar
• How to break your sugar addiction
• The importance of balancing your blood sugar
• How a sugar addiction begins
• What happens when Joy and Walker's daughter Vienna has refined sugar
• Eating a high sugar diet ages your skin through a process called AGEs
• The link between sugar and heart disease
• How much sugar is okay
• Where sugar is hiding in your food (you might be surprised by this!)
• The role green smoothies played when breaking my sugar addiction
• The best part about quitting sugar

SHOW NOTES: https://bejoyo.us/breakfreefromsugar

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