Who's going to join me?

I've spent a bit of time doing a Home Economics refresher course...

Sugar isn't inherently evil. The body uses sugar to survive, and burns sugar to provide it with the energy necessary for life. Many truly healthy foods are actually broken down to sugar in the body - through the conversion of long and complex sugars called polysaccharides into short and simple sugars called monosaccharides, such as glucose. In additions to the breakdown products of fat and protein, glucose is a great energy source for your body.

However, sugar can sabotage the body and cause fat storage. Excess glucose is the first problem, and it involves a very simple concept. Anytime the body is filled with more fuel than it actually needs (and this is very easy to do when eating foods with high sugar content), the liver's sugar storage capacity is exceeded. When the liver is maximally full, the excess sugar is converted by the liver into fatty acids (that's right - fat!) and returned to the bloodstream, where is taken throughout your body and stored (that's right - as fat!) wherever you tend to store adipose fat cells, including, but not limited to, the popular regions of the stomach, hips, butt, and breasts.

As an unfortunate bonus, once these regions are full of adipose tissue, the fatty acids begin to spill over into the organs, like the heart, liver, and kidneys. This reduces organ ability, raises blood pressure, decreases metabolism, and weakens the immune system.

Not good!

My friend Fiona and I are real foodies. We love to bake. We decided a week ago, that the month of June would be a sugar free month. So far so good! The only sugars we'll consume will be those found in fruit and healthy food choices.

So, my question to you is, who's going to join us? It's not all that difficult, I promise. Just think how much easier it is to do as a group. The results will be so worth all the effort. All that's required is a 'yes' and some will power for 22 days--enough time to form a good habit. Sugar will always be there waiting for you when you're done. Hopefully after this little exercise, sugar will be viewed as a treat and consumed once in a while, as opposed to daily, in order to satisfy the fix.