“A high-sugar diet is particularly damaging for children as it displaces nutrient-dense foods like meat, butter, eggs and cheese, which children need for optimum growth. High sugar consumption during childhood sets children up for serious diseases in adulthood, such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer and depression.”

Getting off white sugar can be difficult, because it’s in almost everything, including many organic products, (organic white sugar is better, but it’s still highly processed). White sugar is cheap, fun, highly addictive, and hard to avoid, but the great news is that we have healthy alternatives that we can use to replace white sugar, and make delicious healthy creations for our family that they will love. Sometimes change is hard, but our taste buds adjust, and we start loving how we feel and wonder why we ever consumed so much white sugar. I write this to encourage you to keep going. It’s worth the extra effort!

Our two feel-good, very satisfying, favorite natural sweeteners are raw honey and maple syrup. Do you have a favorite?

You can find the quote I mentioned above on the Sugar Alert brochure. You can find that helpful brochure here.