Is Sugar Killing Us?
I&#x27;m celiac, so my body has some crazy responses to food. I get withdrawal symptoms from a couple of foods and have cut them out because of it. Sugar was the most recent. When I stop eating it I get a sinus headache, I get the shakes (like drinking too much caffeine), and if it&#x27;s bad, I throw up. What blew my mind in giving up sugar was that I lost 5 lbs. I&#x27;m was lean at 155 lbs and 6&#x27;1, I dropped below 150 now. It really opened my eyes to how much sugar is converted to fat.<p>I gave up gluten (withdrawal symptoms), high fructose foods (digestive issues, celiacs wrecks your small intestine lining), caffeine (withdrawal symptoms), sodium nitrites (withdrawal symptoms, but I don&#x27;t know much about this one, it&#x27;s in bacon and deli meats as a preservative &#x2F; cure), and now sugar (withdrawal symptoms). I feel so good. My nose used to be stuffy all the time, I used to have awful digestion, cutting out these foods totally changed my life.<p>I&#x27;m honestly really grateful that I&#x27;m celiac, I think it magnifies all the shittiness that these foods bring. It got me to realize all the garbage I was sustaining myself on. I&#x27;m now incredibly healthy despite being &#x27;sick&#x27;. One of the stranger realizations was that I now only drink water, and that I used to live mostly off of soda.<p>All these industries have huge interests in selling people addicting food (caffeine, sugar) and maintaining their market positions. They put out so much misinformation on what is healthy.