GUEST POST: Most of us have a ‘sweet tooth’ – but you can’t have failed to hear all of the bad press about sugar. Unfortunately, that bad press is true – sugar provides no more than empty calories and energy that you can better get from elsewhere. And yet, we are eating[Read More]
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Sugar And Its Many Guises!
Think you know how to work out if the foods you’re buying have any added sugar – and how much they contain? Think again. Sugar comes in many forms, but not to fear – you just need a little help in deciphering those sneaky sugar guises…
Sugar Snub!
Many of you will know that I don’t like to demonise any food group but I do emphasise the need to control sugar in the post-surgery diet. I am sugar-sensitive and being a post-bypass patient am susceptible to ‘dumping syndrome’. This makes me an avid back-of-pack label reader and zealot when it comes to[Read More]