I’ve often characterized sugar, salt and fat as the evil triangle of foods — a triangle I have struggled mightily to avoid since my 2012 angioplasty. Of sugar or salt, which is harder to drop from your diet?
For me, its long been sugar. I’ve cut massive amounts of salt from what I eat by eating out less and eating less processed foods as well as by checking for low-salt varieties of such everyday kitchen staples as ketchup, tomato sauce and even olives.
So I was happy, if that’s the right term for sad situation, to see this video report from Supermarket Guru Phil Lempert about a new research that shows it is indeed harder to drop sugar from your diet than salt.
You can watch the video yourself on this link, but basically if found that people who dropped sugar went back to it faster than did people who dropped salt when offered the chance to return to eating salt.
Sugar set me back big-time in 2015 in my efforts to maintain a lower weight to reduce my chances of heart problems going forward. More on that in a future post.