{"id":89045,"date":"2026-05-12T07:12:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89045"},"modified":"2026-05-12T07:12:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T07:12:55","slug":"what-does-sugar-do-to-your-body-and-how-can-you-avoid-a-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/12\/what-does-sugar-do-to-your-body-and-how-can-you-avoid-a-slump\/","title":{"rendered":"What does sugar do to your body \u2013 and how can you avoid a slump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-87979\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Blood-sugar-spike-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Blood-sugar-spike-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Blood-sugar-spike-360x225.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Blood-sugar-spike.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sugar tastes great for good reason: we evolved to like it, back when honey was a hard-to-get, energy-dense treat and we spent half of our time running around after antelope. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/what-does-sugar-do-to-your-body-and-how-can-you-avoid-a-slump\/ar-AA1U2tBv?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=6a02cb874c7640c4aa6ec554e6f7757d&amp;ei=19\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Sugar tastes great for good reason: we evolved to like it, back when honey was a hard-to-get, energy-dense treat and we spent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Sugar.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89046,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89045\/revisions\/89046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}