Year of No Sugar Reads Like a How-To Manual for an ED

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What she did is obviously more extreme than being a vegetarian. I just meant where do you draw the lines if you start calling eating habits a reason to get department of child and family services involved to put the kids into foster care. I know a foster mom that said she wanted to try no sugar for a year. I know people that think all religion is child abuse.

That's your opinion. Not a fact. I think people who feed kids a strict vegan diet are are extreme and causing more harm to their kids then anyone who cuts out sugar, even if some of it doesn't make sense to others. What I think about a vegetarian diet being imposed on a child depends on the type of vegetarian diet. I don't think any of it invites the government to step in and take your kids away *unless* the child is being harmed or suffering mal nutrition. I go no sugar all the time. Am right now actually. I am perfectly healthy, not mal nourished and eat plenty healthy foods. When I eat this way my son pretty much eats this way as I buy almost no food with added sugar. He's healthy, he's not mal nourished. I go so far as to purchase low sugar fruits as well. (like apples and oranges) I think lemons are considered high on the glycemic index? but i'm not sure. So maybe that's why she cut them out? I don't use them either when I cut out sugar.

It just doesn't seem to be addressed on MFP threads and when people mentioning cutting out junk food in generally they get jumped all over, rather than actually debating the issue.

I really don't understand why people think this is such a terrible thing? Cutting out added sugars/junk foods means you pretty much have to eat healthy foods and a lot of them. You have to get meat that is not pre seasoned, a lot of vegetables and fruit and you end up cooking snacks at home, so you can make sugar free ones. All much healthier then the alternative. How is that harmful to kids? because they aren't eating cupcakes and cinnamon rolls and drinking soda like every other child?? So what? My son has missed 0 days of school due to illness. I can't say that about most of his friends. I blame his diet for that

I missed 0 days of school due to illness after the 1st grade...

Must have been my diet, because I ate all kinds of sugar, soda, etc... but learned how to do it in moderation. That's the point, not teaching kids to demonize it, but rather how to moderate it.

Why is it, that teaching a kid to eat healthy fruits and vegetable and good cuts of meat is somehow demonizing food? It's a fact that at lot of these foods are not healthy for you and the added sugar is unnecessary, only added to make the food taste sweeter so Americans will like it better. Why is it demonizing food for me to make my son a cake that is sugar free but super delicious, versus buying or making him one that is filled with sugar? Why is it demonizing food to put back the beans that have added sugar and purchase the beans that have no added sugar?

I'm really curious - how do you make a cake with no sugar that a kid (or anyone) with think is super delicious? I ask this, because we just had my daughter's 10th, and man, that cake was GOOD but SO sweet. Sheesh. I'm still trying to recover. :laugh:

I make a super-yummy diabetic recipe banana bread that uses apple juice. It's not cake, but it's really good banana bread.

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I'm still trying like hell to figure out how one goes "no sugar" and panics over the amount of sugar in lemons...

...but puts cups of dextrose in cakes or tablespoons in bars, sauces, and mayo.

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