Mental and emotional disorders are often linked to sugar in the diet. The rest is consumed in manufactured foods. Almost everything on store shelves has sugar in it, even salt and cigarettes. For instance, catsup cannot be called catsup if it does not contain sugar. When sugar is eliminated from the diet, all foods start to taste better.
Taste buds become more sensitive to the natural sweetness of foods.
Soon, sugar cravings begin to dwindle and control over ones eating becomes easier and easier. Bodies start feeling better, calmer, and sleep improves. When I first began switching from a sick to a healthy way of eating, I had such a horrendous addiction to sweets that I falsely thought I couldn t handle any type of sweet, whether sweetened with refined or unrefined sweeteners. After a while, however, I began to experiment in the kitchen, first with honey, then with molasses and barley malt syrup, and then I discovered my first dry natural sweetener, maple syrup granules. But as in all things, too much of anything is not good for you.