Well, when you are diabetic you have to control sugar in all forms it presents. But I eat something sweet on Sundays, once a week because the body ask you, and I don't like to be fanatic. Vegan people needs to eat proteins to help the inmune sistem, but they don't do it, so I think the world tells you how to feed your body and I think you have to evaluate the needs your body has. My husband visited China and he says he knows why chinese are thin. It is because they don't eat salt, sugar and fat. He lost weight in 6 weeks and was feeling quite well, he didn't want to eat food at home because he had purify his taste.