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<h1 style="text-align: center;">a month without sugar</h1>
<h2>[WHAT]</h2>
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<li>]&nbsp;by David Leonhardt @nytimes.com --&nbsp;It is in chicken stock, sliced cheese, bacon and smoked salmon, in mustard and salad dressing, in crackers and nearly every single brand of sandwich bread. It is all around us &mdash; in obvious ways and hidden ones &mdash; and it is utterly delicious.Our national sugar habit is the driving force behind the diabetes and obesity epidemics and may be a contributing factor to cancer and Alzheimer&rsquo;s.</li>
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<h2>[WHY]</h2>
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<h2>[WHERE]</h2>
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<li><strong>] READ THE FULL ARTICLE</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/opinion/a-month-without-sugar.html?_r=0" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/opinion/a-month-without-sugar.html?_r=0</a></li>
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<h2>[WHEN]</h2>
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<li>] 2017-01-01</li>
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<h2>[EXAMPLE auto summary by smmry.com]</h2>
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<li>] If you give up sugar for a month, you'll become part of a growing anti-sugar movement.</li>
<li>] Fats tend to have more nutritional value than sugar, and sugar is far easier to overeat.</li>
<li>] You don't have to cut out sugar for a month to eat less of it, of course.</li>
<li>] Eliminating added sugar gives you a new baseline and forces you to make changes.</li>
<li>] How should you define sugar during your month? I recommend the definition used by Whole 30, a popular food regimen.</li>
<li>] " Don't trust the Nutrition Facts table next to the ingredient list, because "0 g" of sugar on that list really means "Less than 0.5 g." Get comfortable asking questions in restaurants.</li>
<li>] The unpleasant parts of a month without sugar are temporary, and they're tolerable.</li>
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<h2>[EXAMPLE manual summary by user/don.sagrott]</h2>
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<li>] <strong>It is all around us &mdash; in obvious ways and hidden ones</strong> &mdash; and it is utterly delicious. <strong>It&rsquo;s sugar,</strong> in its many forms: powdered sugar, honey, corn syrup, you name it.&nbsp;</li>
<li>] The <strong>kind you eat matters less</strong> than people once thought, scientific research&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/the-sugar-wars/508751/" target="_blank">suggests</a>, and <strong>the amount matters much more.</strong></li>
<li>] Our national <strong>sugar habit is the driving force behind the diabetes and obesity</strong> epidemics and may be a contributing factor to cancer and Alzheimer&rsquo;s.</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<strong>Choose a month this year</strong> &mdash; a full 30 days, starting now or later &mdash; and <strong>commit to eating no added sweeteners.</strong> Go cold turkey, for one month.</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<strong>I have done so</strong> in each of the last two years, and <strong>it has led to permanent changes in my eating habits</strong>. It <strong>wasn&rsquo;t easy,</strong> but it <strong>was worth it.</strong> It <strong>reset my sugar-addled taste buds</strong> and opened my eyes to the many products that needlessly contain sugar.&nbsp;</li>
<li>] Research increasingly indicates that an overabundance of simple carbohydrates, and sugar in particular, is the No. 1 problem in modern diets.&nbsp;</li>
<li>] An&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-industry-shifted-blame-to-fat.html" target="_blank">aggressive, well-financed campaign</a>&nbsp;by the sugar industry masked this reality for years. Big Sugar instead placed the blame on fats &mdash; which seem, after all, as if they should cause obesity.</li>
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<li>]&nbsp;Fortunately, <strong>the growing understanding of sugar&rsquo;s dangers has led to a backlash</strong>, both in politics and in our diets. <strong>Taxes on sweetened drinks</strong> &mdash; and <strong>soda is probably the most efficient delivery system for sugar</strong> &mdash; have r<strong>ecently passed in ...</strong></li>
<li>]&nbsp;Even before the taxes, <strong>Americans were cutting back on sugar. Since 1999</strong>, per capita consumption of added sweeteners has fallen about 14 percent, according to the Agriculture Department. <strong>Yet it needs to drop a lot more &mdash; another 40 percent or so</strong> &mdash; to return to a healthy level. &ldquo;Most public authorities think everybody would be healthier eating less sugar,&rdquo; says <a href="http://www.foodpolitics.com/about/" target="_blank">Marion Nestle</a>of N.Y.U. &ldquo;There is tons of evidence.&rdquo;</li>
<li>] A <strong>good long-term limit for most adults is&nbsp;<a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/sugar-guideline/en/" target="_blank">no</a>&nbsp;more than&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/07/health/2015-dietary-guidelines/" target="_blank">50 grams</a></strong>&nbsp;(or about 12 teaspoons) of added sugars per day, and closer to 25 is&nbsp;<a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/sugar-guideline/en/" target="_blank">healthier</a>. A single 16-ounce bottle of Coke has 52 grams.</li>
<li>] breakfast - Mine used to revolve around cereal and granola, which are almost always sweetened. Now I eat a combination of eggs, nuts, fruit, plain yogurt and some well-spiced vegetables. It feels decadent, yet it&rsquo;s actually healthier than a big bowl of granola.&nbsp;</li>
<li>] <strong>How should you define sugar during your month?</strong> I recommend the <strong>definition used by&nbsp;<a href="http://whole30.com/whole30-program-rules/" target="_blank">Whole 30</a>, a popular food regimen</strong> (which eliminates many things in addition to sugar). <strong>The sugar that occurs naturally in fruit, vegetables and dairy is allowed.</strong> &ldquo;Nobody eats too much of those,&rdquo; Nestle says, &ldquo;not with the fiber and vitamins and minerals they have.&rdquo;&nbsp;<strong>But every single added sweetener is verboten.</strong> No sugar, no corn syrup, no maple syrup, no honey, no fancy-pants agave.</li>
<li>]&nbsp;Part of the goal, remember, is to relearn how a diet that isn&rsquo;t dominated by sweeteners tastes.&nbsp;</li>
<li>] There were certainly <strong>times when I didn&rsquo;t enjoy the experience.</strong> I missed ice cream, chocolate squares, Chinese restaurants and cocktails. But I also knew that I&rsquo;d get to enjoy them all again. ]&nbsp;The unpleasant parts of a month without sugar are temporary, and they&rsquo;re tolerable. Some of the benefits continue long after the month is over.</li>
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<h2>[HOW-TO]</h2>
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<h2>[REFERENCE]</h2>
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<li>] SRC = <a href="/view/article?id=5497" target="_blank">best-of-HackerNews-2017-01-01</a>, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13296165" target="_blank">comments</a></li>
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