Is sugar really to blame for everything it is blamed for?

Have a look at these foods which contain added sugar.

So Good Almond milk: filtered water, cane sugar, almonds (2.5%), mineral (calcium), emulsifier (sunflower lecithin), natural flavour, salt, mineral salt (sodium bicarbonate), vegetable gum (gellan), antioxidant (Ascorbic acid), vitamins (B12, B2, B1)…..

I don't think it is a big deal to have your one, perhaps two delicious cups a day. There are even many health benefits that have been studied, and coffee drinking is associated with longevity.

However, for many people, drinking strong coffee on an empty stomach first thing in the morning…

Ordinary table sugar is made up of a glucose and a fructose molecule. Its GI is 65+. Honey is 61+. When eaten along with proteins and fats- such as with milk, or in a dessert- these are slowed down even further.

So, I decided a few months back now to start eating sugar again. To stop with the stevia. To moderate the starches, although not avoid them altogether. To allow myself honey in my tea, and to eat homemade ice cream, orange juice, and to let go of guilt around sugar.

I feel good. I feel well fed. I feel sweetness has been fully allowed back in my life. I feel nourished and nurtured.

For many years, I stayed away from sugar and from fruit juices. While I was reared in Australian suburbia with always having orange juice in the fridge, it was something I rejected many years ago as being less than healthy because of its lack of fibre, its sugar content. And while I did buy juice sometimes for my own kids, since I figured it was a lot better than drinking soda full of sugar or aspartane, it still felt like a compromise.

Orange juice, not from concentrate, 100% with no added anything, is now one of my favourite foods! I absolutely love it, and enjoy it at least twice a day. I buy the Nudie pulp free…..

Eating dairy has been a significant part of many cultures traditionally. Whether cow, sheep, goat, buffalo, donkey or camel, humans have adapted to the highly nutritious milk of whatever mammals were available to us to domesticate. Cohabiting with animals has a long history. We have learned to store it, process it into butter, cream, yoghurt, cheese and other delicious and nutritious foods…..