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January 12, 2015

Day 2

Boost Juice surprise Table sugar is sucrose. Sucrose is 50% glucose and 50% fructose. High Fructose Corn Syrup is 50% glucose and 55% fructose. Very little difference.    The first night’s sleep after 2 years with sugar yielded some tossing and turning and a bizarre dream where I resembled a wobbly overweight pear strolling through … Continued
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January 12, 2015

Day 3

Liquids We consume 60kg of sugar per person per year.  Americans consume 200 litres of soft drink per person per year. I estimate over a billion burps per year.   Today was all about the liquids. It became really clear how much sugar we get from our drinks. And not one of them had bubbles. … Continued
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January 12, 2015

Day 4

Chicken dessert The Oxford Textbook of Medicine says that sugar plays no part in the causation of type 2 diabetes. Given that this disease was virtually unheard of 30 years ago and now kills someone every 10 seconds, I am keen to explore this. Especially in regards to our own indigenous culture.   Started the … Continued
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January 12, 2015

Day 5

Up and Go and Fruit Brick Our great grandmothers used sugar to starch their petticoats. Sugar is also used to harden asphalt, plus slows the settings of ready mix concrete and glue (meaning my stomach is currently a cement mixer).   So today started with a strong feeling of lethargy but amongst the gloom was … Continued
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January 12, 2015

Day 6

Karmarama A man told me today that if you want to get rid of an ant mound, pour sugar down the hole. The ants will eat all the sugar until they die. Comforting. Breakfast was greeted enthusiastically this morning at the thought of a new cereal to try. Sultana Bran with oatmeal clusters. At 30 … Continued
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January 12, 2015

Day 7

Succulent Breasts A teaspoon of sugar after a hot curry will extinguish the furnace in your mouth.   One week today, 280 teaspoons down. A time for celebration. A cake perhaps? No thanks. Eyes open. Very sluggish. A quick morning spoon. Lady leaves the bed and returns with a bowl of Sultana Bran Clusters and … Continued
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January 12, 2015

Day 8

Big M In 2012, if the amount of sugar produced worldwide were poured over the ground behind a person as if leaving a trail; that person could walk across the entire continent of Europe.   Today really hurt. After my Chicken Tonight and apple juice combo around 9pm last night, I learnt a cruel lesson … Continued
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January 12, 2015

Day 9

The day I ate 40 actual teaspoons of sugar. I just read an article saying that in June of 2000, scientists found a molecule of sugar in outer space. They said it was found in a ‘dust cloud at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy’.  Sadly they didn’t even see the joke they had … Continued
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January 12, 2015

Day 10

Day 10 Birthing Class Babies are increasingly being born and placed immediately onto sugar drips of glucose. This is because they have been producing so much insulin to help regulate their mother’s blood sugars that they are born with hypoglaecemia (low blood sugar levels).   Due to yesterday’s ridiculous sugary self abuse, I decided to … Continued
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January 12, 2015

Day 11

Day 11 The mental toll Type 2 diabetes was virtually unheard of 40 years ago. It now kills someone every 10 seconds. I have a hunch that it hasn’t been the rise of the internet that’s done it.    After 11 days now I am definitely getting some very clear understanding of the effect that … Continued
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January 12, 2015

Day 12

Label maths When you watch an actor fall through a window in a movie, chances are that the window was made of sugar.   I am absolutely wrecked today. Sugar has been the clear winner on day 12. Flat, tired, grumpy, delirious, vague, edgy and a bit flatulent if you must know. I really need … Continued
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January 12, 2015

Day 13

Paranoid Android 20 years ago, 1 in 14 Australians were obese. That number now stands at 1 in 5. A television show called ‘The Great Australian Bake Off’  is currently leading the ratings. Careful, concerned programming.   So today the ‘Sugar Fun Park’ roller coaster took an upward turn. The lurking rattiness was certainly still … Continued
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