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    Giving up sugar with ME/CFS

    Hi I wondered if anyone has any experience of giving up sugar? I have had ME for 14 years and for various reasons, I have decided to give up processed sugar (I am still having fruit). I am on day 5 and I am finding that it is making my ME symptoms much worse. If anyone else has done this and...