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Working within the NHS with patients who are at risk of developing Type 2 diabetes has made sugar an area of special interest for me. It is no surprise, if you look at the government recommendation with regards to healthy eating (low fat/high carb) and abundance of cheap refined foods that we are reaching an obesity epidemic. Table sugar (sucrose) is made of 2 molecules glucose and fructose. Table sugar has got zero vitamins and minerals and is pure refined carbohydrate. Suga

I know when I started studying Nutrition, I really wanted to be a nutritionist who did not use supplements, but instead solely used the amazing power of food. Alas, the more I studied, the more I read, the more my romantic perspective that food should be enough for optimum health started to diminish. Unfortunately, our food is getting less and less nutritious. Fields are depleted by overuse. Pesticides limit the action of beneficial microbes in the soil that help plants draw