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5 Ways to Obliterate Sweet Cravings — Without Sugar
March 8, 2017

5 Ways to Obliterate Sweet Cravings — Without Sugar

For most of us, a typical sweet craving hits like a hurricane and fills our brain with visions of mounds of cupcakes, gleaming towers of doughnuts, and infinite bowls of blood-red Swedish Fish itching to swim straight down our gullet. READ: 5 Ways to Kick Your Sugar Addiction for Good Small problem with that, which you almost certainly already know: It’s been proven time and time again that the human body wasn’t made to withstand the amounts of sugar we’re collectively consuming, and it’s having disastrous effects on our health, including raising our risk for diabetes and heart disease, and cancer. In fact, Robert Lustig, a leading U.S. obesity expert believes sugar is an addictive toxin and should be regulated in the same way as cigarettes. Still, that doesn’t mean we don’t crave the stuff — we sure do — but it does mean we should think twice before sidling up to the vending machine every day at 3 p.m., or high-tailing it to Starbucks for a Venti Caramel Frappucino. READ: Can You Really Be Addicted to Oreos? There are plenty ways to indulge your sweet tooth without turning to junk food, whose ingredients are downright frightening. For the record, a pack of Swedish fish is made with the following: sugar, invert sugar, corn syrup, modified corn starch, citric acid, white mineral oil and artificial flavors, as well as FD&C Red 40 for the red color. Yum? Read on for 5 perfect ways to get a sweet fix — without sacrificing your health: