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The Sugar Trap: Healthier Living

With Less Sugar

Do you or your children suffer from any of these health symptoms? Are you aware that sugar might be one of the causes?

Anxiety / Depression / Diabetes / Fatigue / Food cravings / Headaches / Heart disease / Hyperactivity / Insomnia / Lack of concentration / Low energy / Mood changes / Sleep disorders / Temper tantrums / Weight issues / Yeast infections

Sugar is everywhere in our society. Not only in obvious forms such as cookies, cakes, and candy, but in other foods that you can think of like packaged meats, soups and commercial salts and even in non-foods like aspirin, vitamins and mineral supplements, and various cosmetics. Our intake of sugar has increased by 250% in the past 100 years. Studies show that sugar contributes to many symptoms, deficiencies, and ailments including a depressive effect on the immune system. A 1997 study reports that as little as six teaspoons a day can reduce the immune response by 25%. Most common foods contain large amounts of sugar, which may have a dramatic impact on your health and your children’s health.

Attend this interactive session to learn:

Ì How to improve health symptoms by reducing sugar

Ì Why sugar is bad and 113 ways it can ruin your health

Ì Various forms and alternative names for sugar

Ì Healthier sugar substitutes to make

Ì How to read a food label and find the quantity and type of hidden sugars

Ì How to manage sugar cravings

Ì Suggestions and recipes for introducing healthier snacks into your diet

Ì Kid-friendly recipes including modified “before and after” versions

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About the Speaker

Cindy Crowninshield-Davies is a Boston-based Holistic Health Counselor who became involved in nutritional healing ten years ago after being forced by major health problems to reexamine and redirect her life from the inside out. Through a self-healing journey, she learned how to overcome health problems like many of the ones listed above by using whole foods medicinally, experimenting with alternative medicine, and making lifestyle changes. The journey of healing herself sparked her desire to teach others how to organize themselves in health and wellness through a whole foods approach and by making healthy lifestyle changes. She is a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and accredited by the American Associate of Drugless Practitioners. She is trained in modern health counseling, eastern and western nutrition, and using nutrition as therapy.

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