Americans excel at providing and obtaining nourishment quickly and efficiently. Fast food such as hamburgers, fried chicken, and burritos supply entire meals in minutes. Even so, the speed of their preparation, consumption, and introduction into the blood stream is rivaled by smoothies, energy drinks, yogurt cups, and sports bars. Liquid lunches can be consumed and digested especially quickly. Not only hunger, but also energy deficits can be assuaged almost instantly.
Such superb efficiency requires an abundance of sugar. Even healthy foods like smoothies and yogurt cups contain ample amounts of sugar. Although it has become more expensive, sugar is still in plentiful supply in a variety of forms to Americans. Whether it is cane sugar, corn syrup, honey, or maple syrup, it’s available in its pure and prepared forms at any grocery store. Will power is an inadequate match for shelves of puddings, candies, cookies, cakes, and ice cream. Little exertion is required to purchase and transport the selected delectable home, open the package, and dig in.
Short of brain surgery, is it possible to reduce one’s consumption of sugar? Avoidance is the answer. Fortunately, all of those luscious snack cakes, shiny cellophane packages of cookies, crinkly bags of miniature chocolate bars, and tubs of festive spumoni have their own aisles. The multiplicity of brands and flavors ensures that the density of their displays requires not only whole aisles, but also signs suspended from the ceiling. Even those of faintest heart are capable of wheeling a grocery cart past the cookies to the sumptuous displays in the produce department. Those geometric pyramids of red and green apples, baskets of plump red and purple grapes, and heaps of ripening bananas should distract your sweet tooth until you leave the store. Reward yourself with a cluster of grapes or a ripe banana on the way home. Smile; you’ve accelerated your path to health and beauty.
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