My friend once told me that there is no bigger contrast on the color scheme than black and white, that's why I chose it for my template. Contrast, a marked difference. Yep, that's what I want, a marked difference, a contrast. So I decided to start this experiment and knew that I had to fully commit, thus the blog. So here's the experiment:

365 days without sugar: What kind of sugar? Because it is impossible to completely rid your diet of sugar, and unhealthy, I wanted to see what kind of difference it would make in my life to cut out all refined sugars, particularly the High Fructose Corn Syrup. That cuts quite a bit of food out of my American diet. This indeed will be an adventure. So, what am I left with?


http://www.becomehealthynow.com/article/carbs/1082/"Sugar cane and beets are subjected to the same refining processes and produce identical products. In the repeated processes of washing, boiling, centrifuging, filtering and drying, nearly all of the plant’s nutritional elements are lost. What remains in the raw sugar product is 95% sucrose along with nutritionally insignificant minerals. "Raw Sugar" is not a raw or natural product at all, but is the highly refined, nutritionally depleted, 95% sucrose product before it is even further refined. IF sanitized by steaming this "raw sugar" can be marketed as turbinado. To produce the white crystals we call table sugar, bleaching agents such as lime and carbon dioxide are added. The sugar is then further "purified" (refined) and whitened by being filtered in a water-added liquid state through beef bone char. This process removes even more minerals. Sucrose in its completely refined stage is more familiarly called table sugar. "Pure" sugar refers to chemical purity, devoid of all nutritional and other elements, and not to a wholesome quality.The completely refined white sugar product is now over 99.9% sucrose and for all practical purposes contains no nutritional elements such as vitamins, minerals, proteins or fibers. This accounts for expressions such as "empty calories" and "junk food".

So there you have it. Refined sugar is basically devoid of all nutrients.
more later.