Eve O. Schaub is all set to discuss what all her family had to go through while they lived up to a challenge of living a year without sugar. She will release her book 'Year of No Sugar: A Memoir' at The Hickory Stick Bookshop on Tuesday, April 15.

Although the World health Organization recently recommended to cut sugar intake to 5% of daily calories than previously suggested 10%, Eve Schaub had made a decision in 2011 to cut sugar from her diet altogether.

The author has discussed how she, her husband and their two children got through the challenge. They began with avoiding usual suspects like table sugar and honey. They then eliminated any food that contained added sugar, which also included some salad dressings, mayonnaise, bread, and even bacon.

After cutting sugar from their daily calorie intake, they started to feel much better. Slowly, they started to feel more energetic. The effects surprised when they indulged in dessert for her husband's birthday, as it tasted too sweet to tolerate, for all of them. Schaub got a headache and was not even able to finish it.

The Schaub family now consumes sugar in moderate quantity. They have retained much more sensitive palates and a more subtle appreciation for sweetness. "I went from somebody who would love a big decadent piece of cake to somebody who would much rather have a very subtle fruit sorbet. When we do choose to have dessert, it's small and it's very special. It's infrequent", Schaub informed the Huffington Post.

Schaub said she decided to go for sugar-free diet after realizing that sugar acts in the body as a poison. And she wanted to do something about it and she thought that doing something dramatic like avoiding sugar entirely is more interesting than just cutting back on sugar consumption.