Many people hopelessly search for a healthy sugar substitute, but they will never find one, nor will they cure addiction by finding a processed chemical that tastes like sugar because fake sugars, sugar substitutes, and non-nutritive sweeteners continue to reinforce sugar addiction.

You do not need to do a fad keto diet or inject diet medicines with potentially dangerous long-term side effects because your body needs some form of sugar to live.

Processed drinks and foods with combinations of sugar, salt, and umami (amino acids like MSG) are biochemically addictive because companies intentionally combine these addictive ingredients together.

Big business knows how to lure people and their kids to eat their foods because the brain is wired to seek sugar as a survival instinct.

You are hardwired to reject sour foods because in nature, sour foods can kill—botulism toxin is a classic home canned food poisoning that often occurs when food turns fast and becomes sour, so your body's innate defense is to reject it.

Eating processed carbohydrates causes the same dopamine high regardless of whether you're eating a donut, bagel, bread sandwich, smoothies, or fruit juice—all cause this dopamine spike.

Complex carbs like flour do not taste sweet by themselves, but are converted into simple sugars (glucose and fructose) in the body, and companies often hide salt and fat in them, or home cooks add them, creating addictive energy bombs.

If your goal isn't to get healthy, you will be unlikely to succeed in quitting sugar and will yo-yo in your sugar addiction while also yo-yoing your health, insulin, weight, and mood.

Commercials, factories, restaurants, big business coffee shops, gas stations, and supermarkets are all going to sell sugar because any food company that doesn't sell some form of sugar or use sugar in their foods will probably go out of business, and every government knows it and supports the sugar industry because it brings them money.

Parents become addicted to sugar and then work for free for the sugar industry as amateur sugar scientists, creating different textures, shapes, and promoting sugar to future customers (their children).

The sugar industry needs no commercials because sugar is already passed out in churches and schools, celebrated in anniversaries and birthdays, eaten with every meal, and hidden in healthy-sounding foods and sauces and drinks and snacks and desserts.

American adults eat 60 pounds of added sugar every year, which is equivalent to six bowling balls worth of sugar.

Sugar gives you quick energy, but simple sugars give quick energy while complex sugars give more sustained energy; however, all complex sugars are converted to simple sugars in the body.

The key to managing sugar is to not eat sugar without fiber around it—eating whole, unprocessed plants—because these foods give lasting energy, prevent overeating, and prevent addictive eating.

There are many names for processed sugars including honey, cane sugar, brown sugar, maple syrup, date syrup, brown rice syrup, beet sugar, and high fructose corn syrup—all sound natural because they're made from plants, but so are morphine and cyanide, so natural does not mean good for you.

By activating the aversion pathways in your brain first (through bitter and sour foods), you counteract the high spikes of addictive chemicals like dopamine that your brain secretes to make you eat more sugar.

When you eat fiber (salad, fruit bowl, beans), it buffers your absorption of sugar by building a fiber wall and avoids high hormonal spikes like insulin that cause metabolic damage, weight gain, and sluggishness.

You can eat fruit because it is sweet, but it must be unprocessed—not fruit juice, jams, pies, or canned fruit cocktails—because processing destroys the fiber, releases the sugar, and reinforces addiction.

The fiber in food's original casing protects your metabolism and prevents hormonal surges, especially the addictive hormones, so the key is eating all types of processed carbohydrates while maintaining the fiber structure.

Your body needs sugar and wants sugar, so don't remove all carbohydrates—keep them in their processed form, eat grains whole without blending, flouring, adding sugar, salt, or umami flavors because these additions make anything more addictive.