Those who know me know that I have not used white or cane sugar for a lifetime, or occasionally, and I do all the things that both you and I know belong to the great universe of healthy eating : little or no sugar, low glycemic index foods, so nothing refined or white but very integral, etc. For some time, however, I have realized that food simplifications generate confusion, they are partial, they are based on scientific research that the newspapers repeat without saying anything more than what is summarized in the abstract, when they read it. In the great universe of healthy eating we can find everything and the opposite of everything:that animal proteins are bad or that animal proteins are nutritious and the only true proteins; that we must eat a diet rich in fatty acids with nuts, oil seeds, fish or that the diet rich in fatty acids leads to greater oxidative and therefore metabolic stress; that dairy products are bad or that dairy products are nutritious and are great for you; that the only true healthy diet is vegetarian or that a varied diet is synonymous with a healthy diet; that saturated fats raise cholesterol or that saturated fats are good for cell health and do not raise cholesterol. In short. The great universe of healthy eating is populated by pitfalls,and if we believe every slogan that is proposed to us not only will we have a great confusion in our head, but we could end up as the author of this book, Joey Lott, known on the internet for being a free mind about awareness, inner pursuit, happiness , well-being and because it has been fighting for years against all kinds of dogma, including food. Joey had in fact arrived at a supersane elimination diet at least on paper (no gluten, no dairy, no sugar, lots of fruit and vegetables, centrifuged, etc.) so strict that he had been sick for years. And he was saved only by going back to eating everything, doing research and discovering that everything he knew about proper nutrition was either false or was the object of mystification.

For example? Sugar. In his book ” In defense of sugar ” (unfortunately only available in English), Joey addresses everything that has been said against sugar and analyzes all the studies made and disseminated against sugar. Discovering such inaccuracies and misunderstandings that he gave up his sugar-free, low-carb diet and went back to eating foods that contained natural sugars, carbohydrates and white sugar. Yes, white.
Because? Because according to Joey, who started to get better by resuming eating everything and more than before, everything we think we know about sugar is either false or oversimplified.
It is not true that sugar causes diabetesIt is true that doctors treat hyperglycemia by eliminating sugar from the diet, apparently without solving the problem but trying to stem the effects. It is not true or misleading to say that sugar causes candidiasis, feeds malignant cells (feeds all cells, actually), causes tooth decay, attention deficit in children and overweight. Joey cites all the studies so far and rebuts these accusations with data from studies that reveal that empty calories do not exist, that our bodies need sugar to live.that any sugar (without exaggerating and in a varied diet) is good for you and that there is no point in limiting sugar to reduce the symptoms of a disease, but it would make more sense to cure the disease, that is, the causes. Finally, the slogan that sugar is addictive like a drug is based on a study in which a group of mice were asked to choose between an Oreo cookie and some white powder. Because some mice chose to eat the cookie rather than snort, the researchers assumed the sugar was addictive. I would have done the same thing even though I didn’t love Oreos. Yet I assure you that I have no addiction to sugar.
But above all, Joey demonstrates how unfounded the link between sugar and overweight is, illustrating numerous studies in which a habitual consumption of simple sugars and complex carbohydrates was the basis for the thinness of the participants.
In short, Joey says that sugar is vital in importance, and that a sugar-free diet is the worst thing we can do to our health, our immune defenses, our figure.