I’ve seen plenty of videos in various social media platforms , people saying how their entire body/physique/ overall health changed when they stop consuming sugar. Can one go without consuming sugar? How does that happen?
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Sugar is calorically dense without many other redeeming qualities, nutritionally. Removing sugar from your diet would likely reduce your intake of calories without doing harm in some other way. The size of the effect would depend on how much sugar you are already consuming and the extent to which you replace those calories with other food. There’s no particular benefit to consuming *zero* sugar as compared to just a tiny bit. It’s not like a virus that can replicate and spread from just a small exposure.
With all that said, social media fitness influencers make their money by wildly exaggerating the consequences of anything they try/recommend. You should not expect to see the same dramatic changes they do, especially in things that are easy to lie about like “mood” and “energy.”
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