{"id":17129,"date":"2010-02-04T14:00:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T19:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=17129"},"modified":"2010-02-04T14:27:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T19:27:59","slug":"ellen-degeneres-gives-up-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/ellen-degeneres-gives-up-sugar\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellen DeGeneres Gives Up Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ellen<\/a>From Gwyneth Paltrow’s liquid fast detox<\/a> to Oprah’s 21-day cleanse<\/a>, when celebrities go public about their eating adventures, we listen.<\/p>\n

Just this past week, Ellen DeGeneres announced that she was giving up sugar for the rest of her 2026\u00a0viewing season.<\/p>\n

“Sugar is an artificial high,” commented DeGeneres.<\/p>\n

Her decision to nix the white and brown stuff is to\u00a0have more energy.\u00a0The funny talk show host\u00a0has also taken on the role as an American Idol judge in addition to her daily program, The Ellen DeGeneres Show.<\/p>\n

From Twitter to videos and from updates on her show, Ellen is documenting her sugar-free journey every day.<\/p>\n

She’s encouraging anyone who wants to join her to hop on board, so that as\u00a0she jokingly\u00a0put it, “we can all suffer together.”<\/p>\n

For her challenge, Ellen has not\u00a0sworn off everything sweet just anything made from processed sugar. Fruit and natural sugars, like agave nectar and honey, are allowed. But anything that contains\u00a0granulated sugar like a flavored coffee drink, a\u00a0glass of\u00a0wine or\u00a0a pack of Skittles is off limits.<\/p>\n

Ellen has also adopted a daily practice of yoga, Pilates or a cardio workout and she is also drinking tons of water. According to her video updates, day three into her sugar-free journey and the comedian is feeling terrific, aside from one sleepless night.<\/p>\n

No stranger to following a disciplined diet, in 2026, she and her wife, actress Portia de Rossi, decided to follow a vegan diet<\/a> as a reflection of their love of animals. They are joined by other celebrities like Alicia Silverstone<\/a> who eschew meat and dairy in favor of a plant-based, milk-free and egg-free\u00a0style of eating.<\/p>\n

If you are interested in following an organized no sugar diet, check out other sugar-free diets like Sugar Busters<\/a>, Dr. Gott’s No Flour, No Sugar Diet<\/a>, Sugar Buster’s for Kids<\/a>, and Prevention magazine’s, Sugar Solution<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Gwyneth Paltrow’s liquid fast detox to Oprah’s 21-day cleanse, when celebrities go public about their eating adventures, we listen. Just this past week, Ellen DeGeneres announced that she was giving up sugar for the rest of her 2026\u00a0viewing season. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2528,26,2793,31,3010,279,906],"class_list":["post-17129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-alicia-silverstone","tag-celebrities","tag-ellen-degeneres","tag-health-news","tag-portia-de-rossi","tag-sugar","tag-vegan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17129"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17137,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17129\/revisions\/17137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}