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Dr. Neal Malik reads the latest health and fitness blogs to help optimize your life. Today, Samantha Coogan — director of UNLV's Didactic Program in Nutrition & Dietetics and president of the Nevada Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics — explains how putting a halt on sweet treats affects the body.

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Deleting sugar from a diet can significantly affect better health, better look, and results in physical activity.

Cutting excess sugar from the diet can improve health and work performance. This was underlined by Samantha Coogan, president of the Nevada Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and a researcher at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.

Are you the one whose candy tooth is constantly falling? It is no wonder, because the added sugar is present in any food, and the candy shelves are attractively lurking close to the cash register of every shop. It is hard to avoid sweet treats and getting sugar in the diet at all. But should we try to reduce? Or maybe even stop using (added) sugar?

President of the Nevada Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Samantha Coogan pointed out that sugar is addictive.

While cutting out sweets, drink plenty of water and snack on fruit and vegetables.