Maya Feller

Yeah, yeah.

So what do you do?

My name is Maya Feller, and I'm a registered dietitian nutritionist based out of Brooklyn, New York.

So I would say the difference is the demonization.

Mm.

Currently, we're in like a battle of wits and morality around sugar.

Back in the 80s, like when I, I mean, I was really, really young then, but that was like, oh, we're going to go sugar free.

It wasn't like, oh, you're a good person or you're a bad person.

Now there's this whole kind of you're having sugar.

Well, do you know what it does to you?

And then there is this like question about whether or not you're actually making a good choice.

And what does that say about who you are as a person?

So we fully entered into the morality that's associated with sugar.

Oh, no, absolutely not.

No, no, I'm totally lying.

I'm like, no, no, go curl jerky.

So what I would say to folks is because any change that you make in your overall eating pattern, you kind of want to make sure that it's something that's sustainable and that you can replicate it over time.

And for most of us, it's not realistic to say that we're not going to eat any added sugar.

So I do say slowly reduce to a place that you feel like you can sustain the majority of the time.

And then if there are days where you have no added sugar, then that's fine.