Ban sugar and sweeteners

Sugar, the sweet destroyer

Sugar throws hormones off balance and contributes to obesity, diabetes, weight gain, heart disease, liver damage, depression, and inflammation. The reason why high-fat, low-carbohydrate diets work so well is because they support your hormones and brain by giving you hours of steady energy while reducing inflammation.

Read about this the high-fat diet

Completely eliminating sweets is the best choice, with the exception of cheat days. If you are not yet fully committed to a sugar-free diet, there are a few sweeteners you can use occasionally.

From bad sweeteners to good ones

We provide a list of sweeteners and sugars that you must definitely avoid because they are not good for the gut flora and/or the brain. We also provide the least unhealthy variants. In this overview, we have taken into account the number of calories consumed, the sweetness, and the impact on body and mind.

Absolutely avoid intake:

• Apartment
• Sucralose
• Acelsulfame-K
• Saccharin

Prevention of intake

• Fructose
• Fructose-glucose syrup
• High-fructose corn syrup
• Fruit juice from concentrate

Better not to take it

• Table sugar
• White sugar (sucrose)
• Brown sugar
• Agave
• Processed honey

Sweeteners to be avoided

• Coconut blossom sugar
• Maple syrup
• Xylitol
• Sorbitol
• Malitol

Neutral (do contain a lot of calories)

• Dextrose
• Glucose
• Real flower honey
• Ribose

Best choice

• Mogroside from monkfruit (as soon as it becomes legal in the EU)
• Erythritol
• Stevia