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Nutrition Blog
by Christy Hyslop, Lose it & Love it
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Cutting Sugar
Sugar has become a staple in most UK households over the last 20 - 30 years.
This has played a huge factor in the UK’s enormous rise in obesity. A diet
containing large amounts of sugar has been linked with raised levels of insulin,
which increases the risk of diabetes. Surplus sugar in our bodies is turned to
fat and stored around our vital organs, placing us at a greater risk of liver and
heart disease.
Eating a sugar free diet will allow you to lose weight more easily. Sugar is rapidly metabolised into blood sugar, which releases insulin, insulin promotes the
storage of fat. Limiting sugar intake can improve our physical health as well as reduce the risk of diabetes. Being overweight greatly increases your risk of
diabetes. A low sugar diet may significantly improve your mood, too much sugar can increase anxiety levels, cause poor concentration, cause irritability and
emotional outbursts. Sugar is like a drug, the more you have the more you want but it works both ways the less sugars
you consume the less you want it.
Simple changes in diet can help you eliminate sugar:
● Try introducing wholegrains and eating more lean meat and fish. Protein will help you feel fuller for longer.
● Regular meals will help stabilise your blood sugar levels, this will stop sugar slumps in the afternoon.
● Keep a food diary, being accountable to what you are consuming will help you to see exactly what you are eating.
● Reading labels will help you see foods with hidden sugars, some foods that are deemed healthy can be full of
sugar and be very misleading.
Cutting sugar from your diet is the best thing you can do for your overall health and wellbeing.
Go on, give it a go!!
Winner of Bookbug Picture Book
Prize 2017 revealed
Author Nick Sharratt (pictured right) has been announced as the winner of the very first
Bookbug Picture Book Prize for his picture book Shark in the Park on a Windy Day, published
by Picture Corgi.
Sharratt beat off stiff competition from the other two shortlisted authors, Ross Collins and
Alison Murray, to win £3,000 and the coveted Bookbug Picture Book Prize Trophy, which
this year has been produced by Scottish paper artist Emily Hogarth.
The prize, voted for exclusively by 19,000 Scottish children aged 3 - 7, was set up in 2016
to celebrate the most popular picture books by Scottish authors or illustrators, and is run by
Scottish Book Trust with support from Creative Scotland. www.scottishbooktrust.com