How to Be a Conscious Eater

yogurt and juice to soups and sauces, from condiments and

cereal to sandwich bread and protein bars. Who wants to blow

their sugar budget on soup?

So, look to those processed foods and the not-even-sweet-

tasting high-sugar foods as the first places to start slashing

your sugar. Cut back on added sugar without being maniacal

about it; there’s a lot of deliciousness and joy to be experi-

enced in your lifetime, much of which can involve sweets. A

fresh-baked summer cobbler. Made-with-love Sunday morning

pancakes. Homemade holiday cookies. The adrenaline rush of

discovery as you soak up the myriad concoctions of cultures

other than your own, whether in your own neighborhood,

road-tripping around the United States, or traveling abroad.

If you’re cutting down on added sugars in other places in

your diet, and treating dessert as the treat it’s meant to be—

a few times a week at most—then you’ll probably have the

added-sugar budget left over to enjoy some of the simple plea-

sures in life.

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