Moderator Anastasia Zampounidis was addicted to sugar when a doctor advised her not to.
The new lifestyle has changed her life drastically, said the 52-year-old.
Do you keep failing to eat less industrial sugar?
Anastasia Zampounidis, who became known as the MTV presenter in Germany, felt the same way.
In 2006, a doctor advised her to say goodbye to white sugar completely, reported the radio network
Deutschlandfunk Nova.
"
She immediately recognized that my liver was on the verge of the exodus and that I was addicted to sugar,
" Zampounidis is quoted as saying.
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January 16, 2019 in Berlin: Fiona Erdmann, Anastasia Zampounidis and Eva Mona Rodekirchen (from left to right) are guests at the designer “Lena Hoschek” fashion show in the E-Werk.
Zampounidis is 51 years old at the time.
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But before she switched to a completely sugar-free diet, several attempts were necessary.
At the beginning of her diet change, the presenter claims to have repeatedly struggled with cravings for sweets.
Among other things, the desire to lead a life without food cravings helped her in her plan to completely eliminate industrial sugar from her menu.
Since 2006, Anastasia Zampounidis has only been eating natural sugar
, which is found in fruit or honey, for example.
She keeps her hands off industrially produced sugar and foods that contain it - this has even made her friendlier,
according to
the presenter
Deutschlandfunk Nova
.
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Too much sugar promotes obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease
In order to be able to live really sugar-free, Zampounidis had to deal a lot with the topic of nutrition. “When I thought I wasn't eating sugar, then of course I still ate sugar because: pickled cucumbers, pretzel sticks, trail mix, even salami - these are all products that are sugar-coated," she is
quoted
in the
Deutschlandfunk-Nova
report. Sugar is not harmful per se, as the
Quarks
portal
informs, but if it is eaten in too large quantities, there is a risk of physical harm.
Excessive sugar consumption in connection with too little exercise promotes obesity, type 2 diabetes and even certain cancers,
as
Quarks
informs.
Today, 52-year-old Zampounidis earns money from books about her sugar-free lifestyle.
In several publications, she describes how you can eat sugar-free and what advantages this has.
But she doesn't want to proselytize anyone: "
You only have to change something when you're not feeling well,
" she is
quoted
by
Deutschlandfunk Nova
.
(jg)
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