Kicking The Sugar Habit

Jenn Visser, through her business The Healthy Hub, will lead a second community Sugar Detox Challenge in January.

Jenn Visser, owner of The Healthy Hub, is inviting the community to join her in the second annual 10-day Sugar Detox Challenge to kick off the year by stabilizing blood sugar levels and augmenting health consciousness.

The 10-day challenge will start Monday, Jan. 11, and it is not too late to sign up to take part in the free community event.

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Jennifer Visser was dealing with lower-back pain. On the advice of a naturopath, she went on a cleanse, cutting sugar from her diet. The results were remarkable.

“Three days later my A.D.D. cleared up,” Visser says. “I was amazed. I’ve never, ever been able to focus like that. It was incredible. I was hooked.” And while it took a little longer, her back pain subsided as well.

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CANNON BEACH — Jennifer Visser struggled with lower-back pain. On the advice of a naturopath she cut sugars from her diet. The results were remarkable.

“Three days later my A.D.D. cleared up,” Visser says. “I was amazed. I’ve never, ever been able to focus like that. It was incredible. I was hooked.”

A few days later, her back pain subsided too. “It changed my life,” Visser says.

Ever since she’s been spreading the word: We need to eat less sugar.

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I recently spent 10 days doing something heretofore unheard of: I cut sugar from my diet. And not just sweets, but foods that metabolize into sugar — foods like bread, potatoes, beans and cheese.

I did it by following a program laid out by Seaside’s Jennifer Visser, owner of The Healthy Hub, who invited the community, free of charge, to join in. In short, the diet — and I hate that word and its flimsy attachments — is a lot like going paleo, but more hardcore. Mostly I was eating two things: meats and vegetables.

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It’s a two-million-year-old “fad diet.” Your immediate association with it may be cross-fit folks, body builders, or marathon runners. It may be synonymous in your mind with the well-known “Atkins diet” of the early 90’s, which consisted of meat…lots and lots of meat. Well, truth be told, it’s none of these things. In fact, if I were to sum it up, I’d say it’s the most basic, return-to-nature, common sense diet I’ve caught wind of.

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It’s that time of year again, time to welcome in a New Year. Some of us will take advantage of this annual opportunity to seek a better version of ourselves. We jot down a few resolutions with hopes that we’ll actually follow through this time. Local massage therapist, Jennifer Visser, believes that the key to success in setting personal goals is the support received from others. This is the vision of her new business, Healthy Hub, located in downtown Seaside overlooking the Necanicum River.

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