So, speak up and support restaurants and cafés that serve healthy affordable meals without sugar, artificial sweeteners, and damaged oils. If you are not sure, call in or visit them ahead of time to question if they have or will prepare meals without added sugar, artificial sweeteners, and damaged oils. The more you request sugar-free foods, drinks, and products, the more prevalent they will become.
If you care about your children, spouse, student, or customer, don’t condemn them to the life- threatening effects of a sweet treat addiction and the scourge of sugar. Children deserve better! Mother Nature provides the best sweet treats. They are wholesome nourishing foods, sweetened naturally with the help of the Sun. In Polynesia, this energy is called Mana.
Below are suggestions for healthier natural sweets, which are best consumed first thing in the morning, mid morning, mid afternoon, or late in the evening. To avoid gas or bloating, never consume sweets right after a meal with grains or starch. Some fruits, such as papaya/pawpaw and pineapple, can be consumed with protein because of their enzymes. Also, fruits can be included in smoothies with nuts, seeds, and pumpkin seed protein powder. Do not to combine fruits and vegetables because they require different enzymes for digestion. Eat for your blood type.
NATURAL SWEETS HIGH IN FIBER (Consume in moderation and for your blood type).
Organic, unsulfured dried fruits, such as apricots, berries, dates, figs, papayas/pawpaws, peaches, prunes, mangoes, and raisins. Always wash well before serving.
Organic apples and stone fruits such as cherries, plums, peaches, nectarines, and pears. Consume fruits in season. AVOID GMO apples and fruits sprayed with antibiotics. .
Organic berries of all kinds, fresh or frozen, such as blueberries, boysenberries, goji berries, raspberries, strawberries, etc.. Again, wash before consuming. They can be eaten as is, mixed with other fruits, or pureed into a smoothie or sorbet.
Various different combinations of pureed fruit can be made and served with spices and mint.
Organic tropical and semi tropical fruits such as bananas, grapes, grapefruits, mangos, melons, pineapples, pomegranates, watermelon. AVOID grapes sprayed with cryolite/fluoride.
Organic pawpaw/papaya with fresh lemon/lime juice and mint. Fresh mint can be added to many of the tropical fruits, pineapple in particular, and some berries. AVOID GMO Papaya/pawpaw.
Home made fruit cocktail with different varieties of organic fruits, their natural juices, and mint. Keep tropical fruits separate from cold-climate stone fruits.
Popsicles made from organic unsweetened (naturally sweet), organic fruit juice; preferably not from concentrate. e.g. Organic grape juice. AVOID fruit “drinks” which are loaded with refined sugar.
Jello made from organic unsweetened (naturally sweet) fruit juice and unflavoured gelatine.
Naturally sweetened kefir, yogurt from unhomogenized milk/cream, or coconut yoghurt, sweetened with unboiled honey, fruit, or palm sugar. For blood type A, B, & AB.
Chocolate/carob/drops/candy, sweetened with date/rice/maple syrup or fruit.
Organic fruit sheets or coconut bars with fiber and maple syrup. Avoid the many bars made with refined sugar, corn syrup, dextrose, sucrose, and hydrogenated oil.
Gluten free cookies/biscuits, sweetened with fruit, rice/maple syrup, or palm sugar. Avoid cookies with damaged oils. Coconut, amaranth, and quinoa flour are healthy options. www.goraw.com http://www.eatright.co.nz/
Gluten-free, whole grain cakes, pies, muffins or cheese cakes, sweetened with fruit, rice/maple syrup, or palm sugar, and free of damaged oils/fats. (Keep consumption to a minimum).
Whole grain brown rice crackers free of sugar, damaged oils, and MSG. www.edwardandsons.com, www.glutenfreeshop.com.au (Eat Rite), www.goraw.com, www.ceresorganics.co.nz to name a few.
Chutneys, Jellies, jams, or cranberry sauce sweetened with fruit, or palm sugar, in small quantities.
When a recipe calls for sugar, replace it with natural sweeteners, such as date sugar, palm sugar, coconut sugar, unsulphured molasses, rice syrup (Lundberg) made from whole brown rice, unrefined maple syrup, unboiled honey, or natural stevia. Deserts can always be sweetened moderately with these natural sweeteners, which do not cause an insulin spike.
The more fiber a natural sweet contains the less it will cause an insulin spike. Thus, it is always better to consume the whole fruit instead of fruit juice, and a salad or vegetable juice with the pulp, instead of just vegetable juice.
If you crave something sweet, it is usually an indication that your sodium-potassium ratio is out of balance, and you need more potassium rich foods. It could also be an indication that your adrenal glands and pancreas are depleted (burn-out) and not functioning properly (e.g. hormonal imbalance).
To overcome sugar cravings, consume quality protein, high fiber, and healthy fatty foods early in the day; supplement with chromium nicotinate or chromium picolinate and essential fatty acids in balance (Omega Nutrition flax seed oil); and seek a good nutritionist to help restore the function of your adrenal glands and pancreas. Also get sufficient sleep and plenty of natural, full spectrum daylight and sunshine. The time it takes to overcome a sweet treat addiction and the scourge of sugar will depend on how well you nourish your body, your genetics, and a great deal of will power.