A sweet tooth can be torment. Ever since I was eight years old, I had a nagging urge for sweets. Every day after school I would eat fruit rollups watching Facts of Life and Thundercats with about twenty of those sheer plastic strips left over around me as I was engrossed in cartoons. Then Kit Kat bars and Twix, my favorite then. But by now I think we all know sugar is well, just evil. Surely enough I would crash after my sugar high and crave more of…something.  Then that feeling would come. The one that’s hard to define. It’s not quite nausea, not quite feeling too full. It’s almost like being electrocuted with sugar. There’s a thunderbolt to the brain and a feeling of just simple grossness in the stomach after too much sweetness and a burning all over accompanied by sharp pain from tooth sensitivity. I think we have all had it after an extra helping of chocolate cake with that extra sweet icing. As an adult it was just worse and with consequences. Apparently sugar is addictive and causes tooth decay. A road paved with Life Savers to diabetes is what I would be looking forward to, except I realized I didn’t have to eat sweets when I discovered smoothies.  Continue reading →