Former cigarette smokers (of which I am one) will tell you that it was impossible for them to grasp intellectually or emotionally what life would be like without cigarettes until they quit; that through weeks or months or even years, it was a constant struggle. Then, one day, they reached a point at which they couldn’t imagine smoking a cigarette and couldn’t imagine why they had ever smoked, let alone found it desirable. A similar experience is likely to be true of sugar—but until we try to live without it, until we try to sustain that effort for more than days, or just a few weeks, we’ll
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My takeaway from this whole book is that I should do a 30 day challenge to avoid sugar. I expect it will be difficult and my chance of failure is high, but if the arguments from this book are to believed it would be a worthwhile endeavor on a path to lower my lifetime consumption of sugar.
