We made an Interview with Mr. Stänz about our topic. Fortunately, we were able to have lunch with him and ask our questions.
What is the difference between industrial sugar and natural sugar?
Basically, there is natural sugar in every raw material or food you harvest. However, during processing, the substances to process this sugar in the body are destroyed. For this reason, processed foods can not be well processed in the body, because he has to fall back on his reserves. When there are no more reserves, the sugar is stored. For this reason, people get fatter.
What does an optimal nutrition day look like for you?
As much natural food as possible. I personally grind my own oatmeal, because many substances are lost during processing. Nevertheless, I also produce my own chocolate when I want to eat dessert.
What are the dangers of sugar?
In the past, there were poor people who worked a lot in the sugar field and ate sugar beets all day. They had extremely white teeth. The rich people ate the processed sugar and got rotten teeth. This is again due to the substances that are lost. However, back pain, headaches and of course diabetes are also part of excessive consumption. When you try to give up sugar you also have much more energy than normal. I have done this 3 times in my life and the feeling is unbelievable. Many of people's ailments would disappear if they gave up sugar.
Referring to our self-experiment. Will we already notice changes after one week without industrial sugar?
Probably not. You would have to do the experiment for a whole month to really notice anything. However, the beginning is always the most difficult and I think that one week is already hard enough for you. Maybe you have the motivation to extend the experiment. If you can do it for a week, you can also do it for a month.
Thank you for your time!
Interviewed by Nicola & Simon