Today my Husband was asking me if we need natural sugar for energy... I said I don't think we need natural sugar in order to be healthy and to have energy, but let me look it up... I found the best article that I had to share with all of you. It's so good! (Sorry it's so long, but it's a lot of good information.)

P.S. I love how my Husband wants to learn about this stuff and is so interested in this now. He actually wants to know, instead of me trying to make him listen to me. ;)

http://www.naturalnews.com/022608_fat_sugar_fats.html#ixzz24aSygWHI

This paragragh from the article answered his question, but the rest of the article is so good too.

"I often come across the 'sugar-is-good-for-your-muscles' myth popularized by the sugar industry. This is a clever half truth. Any food is basically foreign to the body. Your body has to convert food into glucose to use it as energy. Glucose is essential for muscle development. 'Thus sugar is good for you,' say the sugar manufacturers. They don't distinguish between the indirect sugars made internally by your body, which are slowly released into the bloodstream, and the very harmful external, 'fast sugars' which directly drive up your blood glucose and actually attack your muscles. Our body does indeed need sugar, but only the kind the body makes itself based on whole foods."

 http://www.naturalnews.com/022608_fat_sugar_fats.html#ixzz24aU0v9yk