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No Sugar Challenge

Lessons From History: Sugar is not an Essential

October 5, 2009 by KimiHarris 82 Comments

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For those of us doing the Sugar Free Challenge this week, we can feel like we are giving up a big part of our diets. It limits us. But we need to understand that white sugar is a new phenomenon. Leaving out white sugar and white flour is hardly extraordinary. Then again, it may be extraordinary in our culture considering that most of the food in the store contains it. But in light of history, we are simply going back to how people used to eat.

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