Changes

We start with a clear-eyed look at sugar's impact on your health. It's not just the chance of diabetes. There's an increased risk of cardiovascular problems, cancers, mental health disorders and premature death. Yes - it's frightening and this chapter alone was sufficient for me to go and have a clear-out in the pantry. I spent a morning back and forth between the office and the kitchen.

The clear-out was more difficult because of all the places sugar can hide. There's a useful appendix which gives the names under which sugar can hide - and there are 259 of them. Some of them sound healthy, too. We need sugar to live but what we don't need is ''added'' sugar as our bodies will ''make'' sugar. Sugars are found in foods such as breads and pastas but you might feel more reassured about ''Sugarless'' when I tell you that the intention is to wean you off 'sweet', added sugars rather than pastas, breads and fruit.