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2 Ways to Make Your Sugar Cravings ‘Disappear’

Our Body Ecology Sugar Buster Kit is designed to meet you where you’re at, whether you’re hoping to cut back on your sugar consumption or give up refined sugar altogether to improve your health. We’re using a two-prong approach to get right to the heart of the matter — two specific and very different products can support your body where it needs it the most as you reduce your sugar intake, minimizing or eliminating sugar cravings almost completely.

Here’s how our Sugar Buster works:

1. Start with a delicious, authentic, calorie-free sugar substitute. If you’ve ever baked with a poor-quality sugar substitute before (that might be loaded with harmful chemicals), then you know how hard it can be to replicate that sugary sweetness. In addition to being natural, calorie-free, and diabetic-friendly, Be Sweet stands out as a sugar substitute simply because of its taste. After years of using Be Sweet to naturally sweeten baked goods and desserts, we firmly believe that it’s the closest natural sweetener to sugar that you’ll find anywhere, when it comes to taste and versatility.

As Mary, one of our Be Sweet users, described, “Every recipe we have used Be Sweet in has come out perfect and tasted amazing. Really can't recommend it highly enough. It's just the same as sugar except it has nutritional value and lends to good health.”

2. Bring in the reinforcements to gobble up the bad stuff. So, you slipped up and went a little crazy on the refined sugar and sugary treats over the holidays — you’re only human, after all. Thankfully, all hope isn’t lost. Drinking a daily probiotic filled with beneficial microorganisms, like CocoBiotic, can eat up most of the bad stuff after a sugar binge. While refined sugar may feed pathogenic bacteria and yeast known to cause a cascade of health problems in the body, good bacteria can crowd out the bad bacteria to keep the gut (and your health) in balance. Tart and tangy, our CocoBiotic is also refreshing and crisp and may help to naturally offset sugar cravings with its sour taste.

“I have definitely noticed less sugar cravings which led to better meal choices and some weight loss, combined with working out,” Kimberley said.

Are You Ready to Quit Sugar? How to Know When the Time Is Right

Sugar is one of those guilty pleasures that we’ve known we should give up — or at least cut back on — for some time now. In 2016, Australian researchers considered treating sugar addiction (a recognized condition) similarly to tobacco addiction, in the hopes of making a dent in our global obesity crisis.^5,6 Another major discovery happened in the same year: Excess sugar in the Western diet was linked to an increased risk for breast cancer tumors and metastasis.⁷ Also in 2016, a shocking report was published by JAMA Internal Medicine, suggesting that the sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to blame saturated fat, instead of sugar, for heart disease.^8,9

These days, sugar’s reputation isn’t looking so rosy, and more and more people are trying to kick the sweet stuff for good. Recently, Finland was the first EU member to introduce a sugar tax on foods and beverages. Pepsi has also announced its plans to cut back on the amount of sugar and calories in its notoriously sweet drinks.

Refined sugar is hard to avoid, but figuring out ways to “outsmart” sugar becomes even more important around the holidays. This is the festive time of year when sweet treats seem to be everywhere — Halloween candy, pumpkin pies, Christmas cookies, and more. Coming up with a plan of attack before the holiday fun begins can make it much easier to choose healthy treats or to bake your own using a natural sugar alternative. You can also support your gut with a nourishing probiotic when and if you do indulge in candy, dessert, or chocolate.

The time is always right to reconsider your relationship with sugar. Sugar has nothing but questionable and often negative research behind it, with the potential to pose a serious risk to your health. As so many of us have experienced firsthand, you may begin to notice a big difference in yourself as you start to cut sugar out of your life. It’s possible for larger health problems to clear up related to sugar overload in the body. The smaller symptoms like headaches, joint pain, foggy thinking, constipation or diarrhea, skin disruptions, allergies, and mood swings that we don’t directly associate with sugar may subside or even disappear.

Life is too short to waste it on sweet foods that are potentially harmful and totally devoid of nutrients. Using a calorie-free natural sugar substitute means you don’t have to feel deprived anymore. You’ll get the same sweet taste without the guilt, or the health burden. A daily probiotic can pick up the slack — cleaning up the mess that sugar has made and helping to repair any damage that’s already been done.

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