30 Days. No Added Sugar.
See What Changes.
A practical, physician-written guide to reducing added sugar—without adopting an extreme diet.
No Added Sugar November
A Practical 30-Day Reset for Reducing Added Sugar
A physician-written guide to taking a closer look at added sugar and making a practical change for 30 days. Start with a manageable reset, without adopting an extreme diet.
A practical place to start.
You don’t need to overhaul everything at once. No Added Sugar November focuses on one clear experiment: reducing added sugar for 30 days.
Use the month as a chance to pay attention to everyday choices and build a more intentional relationship with added sugar. A practical reset starts with a manageable first step.
About the author
H. John Cooper, MD is a Professor of Orthopedic Surgery specializing in hip and knee reconstruction at Columbia University Irving Medical Center / NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Over a fifteen-year surgical career, he has performed thousands of joint replacements and authored more than 200 peer-reviewed papers on orthopedic surgery and related clinical research.
Cooper’s interest in metabolic health grew directly out of his operating room experience, watching, case after case, how much of what brings a patient to surgery starts with lifestyle rather than anatomy. Five years ago, he began applying that same lesson to his own life, cutting added sugar out of his own diet largely out of curiosity about whether the advice he’d been giving patients for years actually held up. No Added Sugar November is the result: a practical, thirty-day reset built on that same evidence and experience.
He lives in New York with his wife and three children.