Sugar the sweet destroyer
Sugar imbalances hormones and contributes to obesity, diabetes, weight gain, heart disease, liver damage, depression and inflammation. The reason high-fat, low-carb diets work so well is because they support your hormones and brain by giving you steady energy for hours while lowering inflammation.
Read about it here the high-fat diet
Not eating sweets at all is the best choice, with the exception of cheat days. If you're not completely committed to a sugar-free diet, there are a few sweeteners you can use occasionally.
From bad sweeteners to good ones
We provide a list of sweeteners and sugars that you should definitely avoid because they are not good for the intestinal flora and/or the brain. We also give you the least unhealthy variants. In this overview we have taken into account the amount of calories consumed, the sweetness and the impact on body and mind.
Definitely avoid ingestion:
- Apartam
- Sucralose
- Acelsulfame-K
- Saccharin
Prevention of ingestion
- Fructose
- Fructose-glucose syrup
- High-fructose corn syrup
- Fruit juice from concentrate
Better not take it
- Table sugar
- White sugar (sucrose)
- Brown sugar
- Agave
- Processed honey
Sweeteners are not recommended
- Coconut blossom sugar
- Maple syrup / maple syrup
- Xylitol
- Sorbitol
- Malitol
Neutral (contain many calories)
- Dextrose
- Glucose
- Real flower honey
- Ribose
Best choice
- Mogroside from monkfruit (once it becomes legal in the EU)
- Erythritol
- Stevia
