To delete the sugar from your diet for a month is the principle of “No Sugar Challenge”, which has been around social networks, including Tiktok, for several weeks. According to Laura Tajan, a nutritionist dietician, to take up this challenge is a good idea, but provided that this substance is not brutal.
- Having become popular on social networks, the “No Sugar Challenge” consists in eliminating refined and added sugars of its diet for 30 days.
- “It is interesting, because people will realize their daily consumption of sugar. However, it is necessary to make the difference between the added sugar and the carbohydrates,” according to the dietician.
- To wean the sugar, she recommends “change her habits by stages, that is to say ingest less and less sugar every day for a week”.
During the day, we ingest sugar many times. “Indeed, by eating industrial cakes, milk chocolate, drinking fruit juice or adding sugar in our coffee or yogurt, sugar, which activates the reward system and has a different addictive power from ‘Alcohol, tobacco or drugs, accumulates in our body “says Laura Tajan, a nutritionist dietician. Problem: this soft flavor food substance is harmful to health. It promotes weight gain, diabetes, an increase in triglycerides, which are made by the liver and stored in the adipose tissue consisting essentially of fats. Sugar also accelerates the aging of the cells and, overall, of the body. It also causes reaction hypoglycemia, which causes a drop in diet or energy after a meal. “On the mood side, this product can make us more excited and irritated. According to hypotheses, it would have an inflammatory effect and make an eruption occurred, but that has not been verified and proven”, indicates the specialist.
“No Sugar Challenge”: “Make the difference between added sugar and carbohydrates”
In order to be healthy, but above all to lose weight, improve the quality of the skin and appear less old, many Internet users have decided to do it “No Sugar Challenge“. Having become popular on social networks, especially on Tiktok, this challenge consists in eliminating refined and added sugars of his diet for 30 days. “Clearly, you have to eat balanced for a month and no longer ingest industrial products. It is interesting, except for diabetic patients who must be followed and accompanied, because people will realize their daily consumption of sugar. Nevertheless, it is necessary to make the difference between the added sugar and the carbohydrates. dried vegetables because they help have energy. underlines the dietician.
“Ingest less and less sugar every day for a week”
As for added sugars, it is advisable not to eliminate them suddenly, overnight, especially in adults whose consumption of sugar is important. “To wean sugar, you have to go gradually and change your habits, which have been anchored in the body for years, in stages, that is to say ingest less and less sugar every day during a week. In order to have results in a sustainable manner, you must bring “Good fuel”, Namely slow carbohydrates, otherwise the person will lose a lot of weight and, thereafter, the muscles will be affected. “We often think that weight loss is linked to calories, but no. It is more correlated with energy diffusion, the speed at which sugar is diffused in the body.”
“Everything is poison, nothing is poison: it is the dose that makes the poison”
If during the “No Sugar Challenge”, the person cracks and eats food containing refined sugars, “It does not matter. It is human! It means that it needed comfort. Our emotions are linked to food.” According to Laura Tajanthe most important thing is to do it in the right way. “We have to opt for the food that makes us want, sit down, take 15 to 20 minutes to eat it so that the brain sends the good digestive hormones. This allows our emotions to be welcomed with kindness.” She adds that sugar is often demonized, but “Everything is poison, nothing is poison: it is the dose that makes the poison”. Clearly, you can consume it, but in moderation.
