Like most people in the U.S., I have been eating sugar all of my life. In fact, I'm quite sure I was taking it in before I was born, via my mother. As a child from a poor family, many of the happy moments I remember involve sweets - buying candy when I had a little change given to me, going out to ice cream when my parents could spare the money, holidays loaded with cookies, cakes, pies and of course soda pop. By the time I was a teen-ager I was well on my way to being addicted to sugar. If I could have chocolate cake for breakfast, breakfast was worth eating! Otherwise I could pass that meal up. As an adult with the freedom to buy and eat whatever I chose, sugary foods has always been high on my list, even when I didn't want it to be.
This is the story of one woman's eye-opening decision to kick the sugar habit (refined sugar, that is), and the journey that followed.
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