Do you think you can live without sugar?

I rarely consume sugar by the way I eat. So in totality I use very little sugar. If it didn't exist I would not use it at all. I may indulge in something that contains sugar a few times a year when visiting or at a wedding or something like that. Sugar is addictive and hard to do without.

Maybe some can, maybe some cannot. For me, I can't since sugar tastes sweet. I like sweet flavor and would be adding sugar in drinks like tea and juice.

Well yes, I do think I can live a week without sugar if only I cut out all the sweet items from my diet. My daily tea would be the only sufferer…I tried tea without sugar (for health reasons) and spat out after the first sip…after that, to hell with health, I had to have my tea with enough sugar in it. So if I leave out the daily ritual of tea, then there’s few other food that is absolutely necessary and has sugar in it…I’ll just stick to the normal diet of rice and pulses and veggies and fish…none of these require any sugar while cooking. Even breakfast of bread and eggs and fruits require no sugar in it. However, I do know that I would not survive without salt.

Since the price of sugar had gone high in my country, i had tried to cut-down the usage of sugar in my daily routine. But, it makes my food and drinks tastes not delicious and looks dull. So, i think we still need to add sugar to our food. Even to a cup of tea, i still need to add some sugar to it. I think i can't drink my cup of tea without sugar in it. Seems like, i can't live a day without sugar in my life, too.

Sugar ,sweetness .If that is not there then only we would know what is its importance.It can be sweetness in life ,it can be sweetness in the food. Yes see we have some quality of sugar in everything we take ,there is salt also .If we try avoiding the sugar which we purchase from the shops or avoid the sugary food ,then also i think it is not that hard because we can make our selves with the hot hot and spicy things.,which are of many varieties. If we make our selves used to somethings then we feel that is only tasty. Coming to the sweets , icecreams or cold drinks we can not imagine them without sweetness.Choclates look so horrible without sugar it will taste just as if we are eating only bitter things and soemthing that is really hard to taste. Take everything but in limit.Then only we can enjoy everthing .

I can't live without sugar. Sugar makes those pastries and cakes sweet and delicious. Without sugar those delicious foods would be bland and tasteless. So, what's the use of eating something if it is tasteless.

No I could not because there is sugar in fruit. I take my coffee and tea without adding anything. But I will also have chocolates and even the dark chocolate contain sugar. That also means for a week, I would not only have to avoid candies and treats like brownies and squares that I only have on special occasions, but also avoid eating berries, strawberries, blueberries that I love. So it would not be just cane sugar or beet sugar or the frutcose glucose that is bad for you and makes you gain so much weight around your belly, but the normal fruits that are good for you.

hi Scheng, you are right my friend,without sugar we cannot spend even one hour, the relationship with sugar without life's is so hard, but instead of sugar we can use Ste-via ,this is also an alternative to sugar and it is quite good,now a days these Ste-via is developing to manufacture more for commercial use,you can find it in any departmental stores,have a nice day

NOooooo! I am a lover of chocolates - it contains sugar! I love pastries..cakes..candies.. yes in other words i have a sweet tooth! therefore i cannot live without sugar!

Hi, Since this is biological need and even though we do not take sugar in its raw form body gets supplied from the food we eat. Since sugar is an important element for our existence and if we stop eating all possible foods/vegetable/fruits that contain sugar our body would start revolting and the possible result is we die of disease cause by lack of sugar in our body.

I will be hypocrite if I said no because all of the food that I intake contains simple sugar. I am Asian and we eat rice everyday, rice contains simple sugar because it has carbohydrate. Even if you eat pasta, there is still a small amount of sugar in it. From Simple carbohydrates ,Glucose, Monosaccharides, Disaccharides, Fructose, Galactose, Lactose, Maltose and sucrose. So meaning fruits and veggies have contents of sugar, so no matter what we do these sugar exists in our food although they have certain levels and people should know how to limit also their intake of sugar particularly if they are diabetic.

Yes, I have gotten off sugar many times, but I get tempted to using it again. Yes, I can live without sugar; it will be difficult, but I can.

If you are telling only about a week,then i will say yes because i have lived without sugar for allmost 2 weeks.taken no fruits and nothing sugary at all. The sugar in fruits is not harmful sugar.but you have excluded them completely. But living without sugar for whole life is impossible.i cannot do that.

there is a things that many can use instead of sugar: honey. honey is healthy , and one can make sweet food with it. I am used to mix some honey with pure tahini (tahini is like a minced sesame with sesame oil) did you try mixing some honey with cocoa ? (cocoa is a brown powder that all the chocolate stuff is based on , but it's not a chocolate) hey , and what about all the fruits that are sweet ? did you try freezing a peeled banana in the freezer for an hour ? it comes out like an ice-cream. man , I think we can have a better life without sugar.

Does that mean no honey? D: I try to keep sugar to a minimum, since I'm trying to lose a bit of weight (I have successfully cut down my soda intake; I was up to two cans a day; now I can go without one for close to a month! Yaaaay). I still enjoy sweet tea now and then, I've switched to unsweetened green tea (I can't drink unsweetened black tea). But no sugar /at all/? I don't know if I could manage that. I enjoy sweet things too much! I'd probably be down to my green tea and water for drinks. It's tough for me t think of something sugar free to eat right off the top of my head. Anyway, I wonder if you were counting artificial sweeteners as well when you said "sugar". I may despise aspartame, but that doesn't mean other people don't. *Shrug* Sugar is something that we take for granted, I think. I can't imagine life sugar-free. I'm sure that there are people who diet like this, though.

I can't live without sugar.Hard to imagine I drink a tea without sugar, or make a cake without sugar.Sugar is more than flavour or ingredient, it's unteary part for human

Since natural fruits contain sugar, it's generally ill-advised to cut sugar out entirely. However, the confectionery goods are easy to cut out, when it is required in life. Soft drinks do come in diet, which once you get used to them aren't so bad. One could learn to enjoy more savory flavors more often, and for a "sweet tooth" could resort to products made with substitute sweetener. I could live without sugar quite easily.

No because sugar is present in almost everything (fruits vegetables etc) maybe i can live by just eating meat

its like life is useless with out sweet..... but still for me you can't live without sugar but you can minimize of using sugar.....you can have tea with out sugar,me i can drink coffee without sugar as long it is not hard coffee i use to put refined milk, but to cakes ice cream and some other sweetened dessert it is impossible to omit sugar

From what I have read: Sugar is actually one of the most essential nutrients in our body. It is absolutely the only fuel that the body recognizes. If you were somehow able to completely eliminate sugar from your diet then you would stop, like a car that ran out of gas. Ever hear of hypoglycemia? The problem is figuring out what kind of sugars to eat and which ones to avoid.