For most people the idea of giving up sugar for an entire year is more than daunting. It isn't as if you would just give up your favorite dessert, but you would also have to give up almost every food sold in the grocery store (…almost every food). To a woman named Eve Schaub, this was not an insurmountable task, but her family's journey into no-sugar-land was quite eye-opening.

Eve used to think that being tired all the time was just part of the over-worked American's lifestyle – something we all suffered from together, so at least misery had company. But she started reading about the effects of sugar on the body and mind. She then decided to do an experiment in which her family was entirely involved.