Just 1 gram of sugar can push you toward diabetes. Yes, only 1 gram.

At any given moment, a healthy person’s bloodstream contains only 5 to 7 grams of sugar—not much. Adding just one gram to that amount can push blood sugar levels from normal to diabetic.

The guidelines for managing type 2 diabetes allow up to 45 grams of carbohydrates per meal. This is why diabetes is seen as a progressive, degenerative disease—because the system makes it so. The CDC recommends that added sugar intake should be kept below 10% of daily calories, yet the standard approach to diabetes management often ignores this. You cannot reverse or properly manage this issue that way. It’s impossible.

And this is for adults, folks. How many kids have consumed 40 grams of sugar (nearly six times the maximum amount of sugar in a healthy adult’s blood) at every meal or snack over the past two weeks?

40 grams of sugar:

• 1 soda
• 2 pancakes with 2 tbsp of syrup
• 2.5 small cookies
• 3 candy canes
• 1 cup of spaghetti
• 12 oz of juice

The American Heart Association recommends that children consume no more than 25 grams of added sugar per day, but most far exceed that amount.

Kids may appear more metabolically resilient because they are growing, but research from the NIH shows that the impact of food hits them 3 to 5 times harder as they develop—even if you don’t see it. And during this time, they are shaping their immune, hormonal, digestive, nervous, and body composition systems epigenetically, which can set the stage for their lifelong health.

New Year’s resolutions need to include your kids. That means you NEED to LEARN this information and how to apply it correctly, parents. Not just do something, try a fad, or experiment, but truly invest time, money, and effort into understanding WHY this is a critical time for you and your children. When you do, the WHAT to do will become much clearer.

If you’re ready to take control, here’s how you can start reversing insulin resistance.

And if you want to know how fasting can support metabolic health, we have resources to guide you.

Let us know how we can help.

Dr. Don