Hello and welcome to episode 146 of Sigma Nutrition Radio. I am Danny Lennon and today is another solo episode

where we're going to dig into one specific topic and kind of look at some of the evidence

base around that and try and get some more clarity on an issue where again there seems to

quite a lot of confusion or maybe at least

some misconceptions and this as some of our previous episodes in this fashion have gone is based

on a listener question that I got and before I get into that just to let you know that the show

notes this episode are going to be at sigmautrition.com

slash episode 146 and I'll link there to anything that's mentioned in this particular episode.

So the question that kind of really caught my attention was one that was related to this idea

of sugar addiction. So Joshua who I think has submitted a question on a previous show before as well,

had posted a question, I believe, on Facebook stating the following.

He said, I have a sugar addiction.

Every time I quit, I get sucked right back in a few months later and gain 10 pounds.

What can you say to help me besides stop eating sugar?

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So that's our kind of question.

That really kind of sparked me to try and get into some of the topics here.

And rather than directly just answer that straight as it is, I think there's a few things

that we have to address

with this question. First, I'm not going to say stop eating sugar. I think it's pretty

trendy at the moment to blame the world's problems on sugar and often people are left to think

that in order to be healthy or to lose some weight that going on a strict sugar ban or a sugar detox is

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