You are so right. I have lost my craving for sweets, and now I don’t even like sweet cereal. I also have lost my desire for any soft drinks or sweet drinks. My drink of choice is water. I still drink a little orange juice – which is high in sugar, but I only drink half a cup. I have replaced it with the low sodium V8 which is very low in calories.

The same goes for salt. I cut down on salt many years ago, and now I never cook with salt and I ask the restaurants not to salt my food. Salt makes you hold water – which adds to weight and causes many other problems.

I have learned to enjoy the natural flavor of foods without sugar or salt. And… it doesn’t take that long to change a person’s taste. A few weeks or a month without sugar and everything will taste too sweet.

Thanks for your emails and for your great information.

Harriet Meyerson