12 Steps to Whole Foods

Bye-Bye, Stimulants — Hello, Green Smoothies
7. Rots your teeth.
8. Weakens your immune system.
9. Feeds cancer cells.
10. Burns out your adrenal glands so you can’t manage stress with calmness.
11. Massively increases your risk of Type 2 diabetes.
12. Increases your risk of arthritis.
13. Increases your risk of heart disease.
14. Causes hypoglycemia.
15. Spikes your triglycerides.
16. Increases your risk of Crohn’s disease and colitis.
17. Feeds Candida Albicans, which generally makes you miserable in a hundred ways.
18. Causes acidity in your body.
19. Damages your pancreas and draws heavily on pancreatic enzymes.
20. Makes you develop a fatty liver.
21. Causes your thinking to be fuzzy, decreasing grade performance and learning.
22. Makes you dizzy.
23. Makes your blood platelets stick together.
24. Makes you constipated, like glue.
25. Gives you headaches.
26. Causes kidney stones and gallstones.
27. Increases your risk of breast cancer.
28. Causes varicose veins.
29. Degenerates your eyesight.
30. Causes deficiencies in copper, calcium, magnesium, chromium, and your overall mineral profile.
The average American eats 150 lbs. of white sugar a year, plus 50 lbs. of high-fructose corn syrup. That’s 40
5-lb. bags of white sugar! It’s not amazing to me that more than 50% of us suffer from a chronic condition; it is
amazing that any of us lives, eating that way.
I made a bet with my friend Matthew that we wouldn’t eat sugar for a year. If we did, we had to pay each other
$10,000. No birthday cake, no Thanksgiving pie, nothing. We didn’t even miss it. Once the choice is removed,
you have no agonizing decisions, whether to eat that mint-frosting brownie or not! (No brownie is worth
$10,000.) I have never eaten much sugar to begin with, but I was amazed that I didn’t feel deprived when the
choice was virtually removed.
Not one bad thing happens when you eliminate refined sugar from your diet. Only good things happen.
If you want something sweet, use stevia, molasses, or small amounts of raw honey, agave, maple syrup, or
coconut palm sugar. If you go off sugar, you lose your cravings and addictions. The first four days are the
hardest. It gets better after that!
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