John Glenn Hill

Sugar has a powerful hold on us.

Up next, how to break free.

It's Explaining to Me.

I'm JQ.

And yeah, sugar is just so good, but it's also bad.

You've been a practicing nutritionist for quite some time.

Is there a way that we're talking about sugar these days that's different from how it was in the beginning for you?

If someone is like, OK, I'm not going to do the sugar thing anymore.

It stops.

Do you recommend going cold turkey?

Is that how you do it?

You know, one of the ways that I try to manage my sugar cravings, because I definitely have a sweet tooth, is just to like, okay, I'm not going to bring this in the house.

But that doesn't stop me from wanting the sweets.

We heard from a listener named River who said they have a really bad sweet tooth.

And I mostly manage it, I guess, just by trying to avoid keeping sweets in my house.

But when I am faced with a cookie, I do not know what to do with myself, and I will eat it all.

How would you help?

River handle this proverbial cookie?

Is there a way to retrain our taste buds?

You know, we heard from Anthony who said, I love, love, love, love sweet things.