sugar, sugar
Put down the double chocolate chip cookie. Hands where I can see them. Step away. Slowly. Slowly. Don’t even glance at the brownies. Keep backing away from that table you’ve piled improbably high with snowman cupcakes and fudge squares and what the f*ck is that dark brown mound covered in sugar icing? Figgy pudding? Lemme have a taste. WHAT DID YOU JUST PUT IN YOUR MOUTH?! SPIT IT OUT! SPIT IT OUT! Oh for chrissake, a godiva salt toffee caramel?
Come on, people. What’s it with sugar and the holidays? That stuff is poison. Would you use the birth of baby Jesus as an excuse to pile a table full of alcohol and then try and drink all of it before January 1? Oh, you would. Ok, so you have. Still.
Followers of this blog know that I usually focus on what’s good for you: running is good for you; push-ups are good for you; butt-slapping is good for you; asking for help is good for you. There’s hardly ever a mention of what’s bad for you. That’s because I’ve committed to limiting the scolding on this blog to a single post a year.
Well, this is the one.
Here’s the scold: sugar is an evil toxin being fed to us by giant food conglomerates, to the delight of pharmaceutical and health insurance corporations that want us all to become reliant on the medical establishment, and we should quit it. Read more…