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“SUGAR IS A STRONGHOLD for many people. Does it hold you back from the good life that God has planned for you? Perhaps over time your sweet tooth has turned into a full-fledged addiction, dictating your days, driving you from one sugary fix to the next. Unfortunately, no sugar fix can fix you. In fact, when you give sugar that job, you’ll end up more broken than before because sugar weakens our physical bodies and clouds our minds.”

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Book:The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation
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Book:The 40-Day Sugar Fast: Where Physical Detox Meets Spiritual Transformation
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Book:Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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