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We all know that sugar is everywhere, but it's not just in your typical desserts.

It can be hiding in a ton of food you eat every day.

In this episode, I reveal how you can minimize sugar in your diet and you will see the difference in your gut and appearance almost immediately.

Plus, I'll share what the truth about meat products and the healthy meat alternatives that are actually dangerous.

All right, you heard me say it over and over again, but it bears repeating.

Sugar is incredibly dangerous and even worse, it's highly addictive.

In fact, the average American eats 153 pounds of sugar every year, whether they know it or not.

That's a lot of sugar.

Ready for another fun fact? You know this. Sugar is highly addictive and believe me, I know how hard it can be to kick a sugar addiction.

I'm someone who could go through a two pound bag of peanut M&Ms in a single city. I know how addicting sugar can be.

That's why today I'm going to teach you how to kick your sugar addiction in just four easy steps.

All right, step one. You've got to know where sugar is hiding.

These days, sugar is everywhere and it's no wonder people are addicted. They don't even know they're consuming it.

That's why I recommend you memorize the different names that sugar can go by, such as brown rice, syrup, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, glucose, fructose.

Fructose, agave, these are all code words for sugar.

And it gets worse, maple syrup, honey, all natural cane sugar, somehow that's different.

So next time you're at the grocery store, make sure to check for those names on the label.

Or better, yeah, if you're looking at a label, you probably should put it back because a packaged food most likely is going to have sugar in one form or another well hidden on that label.

All right, step two. Here's another label trick. Don't look for sugar on the label. It's purposely misleading.

These were changed, these label laws were changed by the federal government during the Reagan administration because the Department of Agriculture realized that their business is to protect agricultural products and make sure agricultural products were being consumed.

So the amount of sugar on a label is well hidden. Now recently the label laws were changed to put added sugar as a separate ingredient.

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