DON’TS
• Processed foods including chips, crackers, pasta, and sweets
• Gluten, dairy, and all table sugar
• Artificial sweeteners such as saccharin (Sweet’n Low), aspartame (Equal), sucralose (Splenda), and sugar alcohols like xylitol, erythritol, and maltitol, which are difficult to process, causing bloating, gas, and diarrhea
• Sweeteners such as agave, cane sugar, coconut sugar, and highfructose corn syrup, which are high on the glycemic index and act like table sugar within the body
• Sugary drinks, juices, and sodas
• High-sugar fruits such as mangoes, bananas, grapes, and pineapple
DO’S
• In place of these sweeteners and artificial sweeteners, use 1 tsp. of raw unfiltered honey, maple syrup, or pure stevia.
• Keep fruit intake to 1/2 cup of low-sugar fruits such as raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, blueberries, oranges,…