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Avoid Sucrose and Caffeine - replace with healthier alternatives
Number 10 of 12 Eating Principles
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Sugar and caffeine often go together in beverages, fizzy drinks and candy bars. These foods function as a drug and interfere with your body's ability to communicate its needs to you providing a false pick-up. Keep your energy levels up by feeding your body correctly. For example, the sugars in fruit support the immune system. The need for these sugars can often be mistaken for a sugar craving that leads to indulging on sweet treats.
- Have one entirely fruit meal a day, or snack only on fruit in between,
- Dates and raisins are a great sweet treat,
- Cut down on the sugar you put in beverages and replace it with honey,
- Honey on cereal is also great,
- Baked goods can be made with fructose instead of white sugar and carob instead of chocolate,
- Start cutting out coffee, tea, coke, red bull and other caffeinated fizzy drinks. They are down right addictive and contain far too much sugar. (If you get defensive at reading this, you are already addicted, even if you drink one or two a day)
- Start trying alternatives like rooibos, green tea, honey bush and other herbal teas. I have developed a taste for chicory as well, with a bit of honey or molasses, mmmm.
If you want to create the same high that you get from sugar and caffeine, eat and drink green. Green leaves are alkaline and creates a zing that does not let you down. Other alkaline products that can help you reduce the fatigue, stress and depression that goes with too much acid in your body, try calcium and magnesium supplements and barley grass juice powder.
Petro Janse van Vuuren
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