Life After Sugar

Janine knew all the facts about sugar: what it does to your health, how it can feed cancer and cause inflammation... but she still ate it because she liked the taste, and it made her happy to eat it.

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Michelle Hurn is the author of the book "The Dietitian's Dilemma".

As a health professional, the oath she took was to "do no harm". And yet, after several years in the profession, and after several ch…

Like many of us, Jennifer's sugar story goes way back.

Her health-conscious mom had the family try all kinds of diets, and her dad and her grandparents had a huge sweet tooth. And this solidified Jen…

Denice Whiteley always had a problem with sleep. She'd fall asleep, but then she'd always wake up during the night and not be able to fall back asleep. She also had two young kids at the time.

She sto…

Lynn Louise knows all about emotional eating. In fact, she did all kinds of activities in order to distract herself from her feelings:

• drugs
• drinking
• running
• eating

She freely admits that she had lots of …

Ever since she was a small child, Florence Christophers suffered from debilitating, blinding migraines. She grew up on sugary and processed foods and never thought that what she was eating had anythi…

Judy Wolfe describes herself as "a person of more". In other words, after that first bite, she always wants more.

In this episode, Judy talks candidly about her journey to freedom from sugar, grains, …

Daneen West began getting interested in brain health after the birth of her third child. She saw specialist after specialist to try to get some clarity on the symptoms her oldest son was experiencing…

Gin Stephens is well-known for her books about intermittent fasting: Delay, Don't Deny, Feast Without Fear, and Fast, Feast, Repeat. 

Now she's written a new book called Cleanish, which is more about …

Jen found that reducing sugar and gluten has been good for all her family.

Back in 2007, when her 3-year-old son began showing signs of a speech delay, a friend suggested that she try taking gluten ou…

Even with her active lifestyle and background in nutrition and science and eating behaviours, Lauren knew that she needed help with her exhaustion, stress eating and cravings. She knew she needed to …

In this episode Véronique Morissette talks about her life after sugar over the last 3 years, and how her relationship with herself has been transformed since she cut out sugar.

Gone is the toxic relat…

So what's the difference between Life After Sugar and keto? And why does it annoy me when people ask me: "Netta, are you keto?"

In this episode I explain what keto is and its history, and how it's bec…

Kathy had followed every diet out there. Sure, she was able to follow the rules for a while, but then she "fell off the wagon". She was used to tracking and following a meal plan, but what she wasn't…

When she was still consuming sugar, Melissa was very anxious, overwhelmed, exhausted, and angry. As a young child, she used to hide sweet foods in her room, and she continued to eat lots of sugar int…

In this episode, Mario tells me about how he grew up in Québec, Canada. At home, his parents naturally ate what would now be considered a keto way of eating: low in carbs and starches, no snacks, ple…

Meghan had always been interested in health, but she didn't know that all those "healthy" products like shakes and bars actually contain a lot of hidden sugars.
She ran marathons, but she also suffer…

In this solo episode, I talk about different points of view on whether sugar is an addictive substance. I have my opinion, but what do other sources say about the addictive nature of sugar?
In my opin…

Dorothy Holtermann had so many health issues that her doctor told her he'd taken out all the organs he could and that she would have to make serious changes. Her doctor genuinely tried to help her, b…

Laurie Lewis is a certified health and intermittent fasting coach. She uses the fasting principles of Gin Stephens, Dr. Jason Fung, and Dr. Bert Herring. We chat about her childhood in the 70s, her m…