If you don't think addition to sugar is real, try quitting.
No seriously, totally quitting. Soda, sugar in your coffee or tea, cookies and cakes...when you stop and look at how much sugar you actually consume in a day, it's pretty shocking. Now picture it all gone, cold turkey.
Whoa.
Yeah, most of us still have the taste for something sweet every day, so here's what you gotta do. First of all, this is assuming you've got a pretty healthy diet structure going on, anyway. So go ahead and go full-vegan first..I'll wait.
I kid. Now put down the Splenda and step away. NOW.
OK, so there are alternatives, the best of which is agave nectar. You can go the honey route if you're not a strict vegan, but if you are, let's save the poor bees from exploitation, shall we? Agave nectar is naturally very sweet and so you actually use less of it than sugar in any form.
[Note: raw sugar is g€ood, better for you than processed sugar and is definitely ethically sourced, so if you're worried more about the global socioeconomic implications than the dietary ones, go for it. But it's still sugar. Keep that in mind.]
Here's a link to a bit about the dangers of artificial sweeteners. You should probably try to stay away from ingesting as much "artificial" stuff as possible, anyway.
http://truththeory.com/2012/10/15/how-to-give-up-artificial-sweeteners/
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