cravings, which generally means you reach for
more sweet foods with lots of added sugar.
It’s a vicious cycle.EMPTY CALORIES
We’ll hammer yet another nail
into sugar’s coffin here. From a
micronutrient perspective, sugar
provides virtually nothing in
terms of vitamins, minerals, or
phytonutrients. (No, blackstrap
molasses is not a healthy source
of iron. Since when we do look to
sugar for iron, anyway?) All
sugar provides is calories—four
per gram. It’s the very definition
of “empty calories”—all of the
energy with none of the nutrition.
And that doesn’t sound very
sweet to us.