David Kirsch Quotes

Cutting sugar made the most difference to my body. It's the devil. It's addictive, and it's in so many things you wouldn't even think of. Sugar is put in sauces, breads, and yoghurts. It's not always obvious, but so many things are packed in sugar.

We don't need sugar to live, and we don't need it as a society.

You look how much sugar is in a typical supermarket loaf of bread: it's a lot of sugar. It's just become one of those sugar delivery systems in our food economy.

I try to not eat as much sugar, but it's so hard in our American diet to do that... It's hard to completely avoid.

I can't eat pure sugar. I can't have candy.

I like sugar, be it candy, this season's pumpkin chocolate chip bars, or wine. Sugar is bad for me. It just sits on my tummy, causing my middle child Esme to ask if we are having a fourth baby. Rude!

I'm a sugar addict.

I am on a sugar-free diet. I used to be a sugar addict where I would eat gummy bears and candy when I lived in Europe.

I had a hard time admitting to myself that I was addicted to sweets. Once I finally realized that was my vice, I completely cut it out for 30 days to try and clean myself of all processed sugar. After that, I slowly incorporated moderate amounts of sugar into my everyday lifestyle.

When I eat a lot of sugar, I feel so gross. You feel so heavy, and you don't feel as energized.

I consume too much sugar. It’s a problem, I need to stop.

I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.

I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.

Many of the Prego sauces - whether cheesy, chunky or light - have one feature in common: The largest ingredient, after tomatoes, is sugar. A mere half-cup of Prego Traditional, for instance, has the equivalent of more than two teaspoons of sugar: as much as two-plus Oreo cookies.

I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon.

Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness.

I always feel like sugar cubes aren't big enough.

My sweet tooth was so bad, it was rotten. So I had to have it pulled. For me, with sugar, it's all or nothing. So I had to cut it out.

Processed sugar - there's nothing good about it. It's a huge, huge industry, and it's poison.

I eat a lot of candy. I can't survive without candy.

It's one thing to have ice cream once in a while with your family, and quite another to eat foods on a regular basis that you don't even know are full of sugar.

I have the worst sweet tooth on the planet.

There's all kinds of ways to wean yourself off of sugar - because it is like an addiction.

The worst drug of today is not smack or pot - it's refined sugar.

Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I've really pretty much cut it out of my diet. Except for cupcakes. I like those.