Welcome to the very first Dishing Up Nutrition Show of 2021.

How exciting.

Yes, 2021, a new year and a great time to make a commitment to your health.

Our show today, brought to you by Nutritional Weight and Wellness, is all about breaking the sugar habit.

Why do you want to break the sugar habit? My name is Teresa

Wagner. I am a registered dietitian, and I see clients three to four days a week. I'm also a mother

of three young children who think sugar should be a major food group.

So I'm constantly working on preventing the development of their sugar habit.

I tell my kids, it's perfectly normal to like the taste of sugar.

I just wanted to teach them how to have it be a part of their lives, but not take over their lives and then leave to problems in the future.

And that sugar, while it's a great thing and it's fun to have, that it's not necessarily an everyday thing.

Eating and wanting sugar is a habit, and it can start at a very young age. Okay, so before we dig into our topic

today, I would like our co-host, Brittany, to introduce herself. Good morning, everybody. I am

Brittany Vincent. I'm also a registered dietitian, and I work individually with clients and teach many of our different

nutrition classes. But one of my favorite classes to teach is breaking the sugar habit.

So if eating sugar is a difficult habit for you to break, I really recommend taking this

online class for only $25. You can go to weight and wellness.com, click on nutrition classes at the top of our website.

And I really think the most important reason nowadays to kick the sugar habit is because

controlling your blood sugar plays a key role in the risk you may have contracting and then the ultimate outcome

if you get the COVID or if you get a coronavirus infection.

Because studies have found that the way people eat in the U.S. often result in a weakened immune system

because sugar processed carbs will actually slow down

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