25 Jan Feeling Swings of Highs and Lows during your day going from Hyper to Sluggish. Try cutting out or cutting down your sugar intake. Sugar gives you a temporary burst of energy, but makes you feel flat pretty soon after.

Feeling Swings of Highs and Lows during your day going from Hyper to Sluggish. Try cutting out or cutting down your sugar intake. Sugar gives you a temporary burst of energy, but makes you feel flat pretty soon after.

Here are 10 ways you can cut sugar in your diet:
1. Half the amount of sugar added to things you eat or drink regularly like cereal, pancakes, coffee or tea.
2. Swap out the soft drinks. Water is best, but if you want something sweet to drink, try diet cordial or diet soft drinks instead.
3. Eat fresh, frozen, dried or canned fruits. Choose fruit canned in water or natural juice. Avoid fruit canned in heavy syrup. Drain and rinse in a colander to remove excess syrup or juice.
4. Compare food labels and choose products with the lowest amounts of added sugars. Dairy and fruit products will contain some natural sugars. Added sugars can be identified in the ingredients list.
5. Add fruit. Instead of adding sugar to cereal or oatmeal, try fresh fruit (bananas, cherries or strawberries) or dried fruit (raisins, cranberries or apricots).
6. Cut the serving back. When baking cookies, brownies or cakes, cut the sugar called for in your recipe by one-third to one-half. Often you won’t notice the difference.
7. Try extracts. Instead of adding sugar in recipes, use extracts like almond, vanilla, orange or lemon.
8. Replace it completely. Enhance foods with spices instead of sugar. Try ginger, allspice, cinnamon or nutmeg.
9. Substitute. Switch out sugar with unsweetened applesauce in recipes (use equal amounts).
10. Limit Non-nutritive Sweeteners. If you are trying to lose weight, a temporary fix to satisfying your sweet tooth may be with non-nutritive sweeteners. But watch out! Make sure that swapping sugary options for non-nutritive sweeteners now doesn’t lead to eating more later.

Reducing sugar will not only improve your inner health, it will also improve your skin and make you feel fresher and more energised.  COMMENT Below which of the 10 Ways will you use to cut your sugar intake today?

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