Sugar is toxic. It should come with a government health warning. More and more of us are coming round to this truth, but how easy is it to rid it from our homes, and bodies? As a semi-professional baker, is it all over for me? Yes and no. We all have to decide what our priorities are, and for some of us, we have to go cold turkey and rid our systems of all forms of sugar. But as many of us are becoming more health-conscious, whether avoiding gluten or the much-maligned GMO foods, we need to face the reality that sugar is sugar, in all its forms. Too many 'healthy' recipes recommend agave, honey, molasses, natural cane sugar or the like, and it is understandable that those seeking a healthy sweet alternative would welcome these alternatives to the white powder. But let's be honest with ourselves: it's all sugar, the body reacts pretty much the same way, and it's all toxic. How about fruit? Well, that's a little better if we eat it whole: orange juice with pulp is better than without; commercial apple juice is pure sugar. A whole orange or a whole apple is so much better because the fiber mitigates the effect of the sugar in your body. So out with the Halloween candy and in with one more piece of fruit a day. Out with the agave and the honey. After three days without sugar, everything you eat tastes better. Everything. And it tastes sweeter too. One day at a time. I'm off to bake.
