Sugar Addiction - It's
Natural
| Can you really be addicted
to sugar? To know for sure, we need to know
what we mean by the word “addiction. ” The
Addiction Resource Guide defines addiction
like this: |
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The physical and psychological craving
for a substance that develops into a dependency and continues
even though it is causing the addicted person physical,
psychological and social harm. The disease of addiction
is chronic and progressive, and the craving may apply
to behaviors as well as substances.
From the same source we get the definition of withdrawals:
The symptoms experienced by substance abusers when
they stop using the drug upon which they have become dependent.
These symptoms are usually unpleasant and uncomfortable;
they may include, nausea, insomnia, anxiety, weakness,
trembling, sweating, dizziness, convulsions, and dementia.
Many people who regularly eat sugar in their diet will
recognize themselves in these definitions of addiction.
You may have tried to give up sugar, either because you
need to lose weight, or because you’re concerned about
the health problems associated with too much sugar in your
diet. If you’ve made an attempt to give up sugar,
you probably already know that it isn’t all that easy.
About half-way through your morning you start feeling “weird”
and light-headed. You need something to eat to calm your
nerves or to wake you up. You miss the routine of grabbing
a muffin with your morning cup of coffee. You find yourself
in the cookie aisle in the grocery store, sneaking them
into your basket before you can make yourself stop.
You have all the right intentions, but week after week,
month after month, you’re still “trying”
to cut down. You may be addicted to sugar.
Addictions actually have three or more
components —
instincts, culture, and physiology.
Instincts and sugar addiction:
We can’t fully understand any addiction without taking
instincts into account. After all, we wouldn’t do
something over and over again until we were hooked, if that
thing didn’t feel good in the first place.
Our bodies are “programmed” to enjoy the taste
of sugar because many of the foods that humans need to eat
for good health are sweet – fruits, roots, leaves
and other vegetables provide the vitamins, minerals and
phytochemicals that we need for optimal health. They also
provide the complex carbohydrates we need for sustained
energy, and the fiber we need to keep our systems running
properly.
Our instincts cause us to enjoy naturally sweet fruits
and vegetables by making us believe they taste good, while
making poisonous or indigestible plants taste bad. It’s
simply part of our survival system.
Before the age of industrialized agriculture, and the creation
of highly-refined, inexpensive carbohydrates, this survival
instinct was a great advantage to humans. It caused us to
eat a balanced, varied diet, and we gained the greatest
benefit from the foods available to us.
However, when men first invented a mill that could take
all the nutrients out of wheat, resulting in white flour,
and then a few years later invented the process for turning
sugar cane and beets into pure granulated sugar, our instinctive
craving for sweet food laid the groundwork for addiction
and disease.
But we can break out of the sugar habit....
Click here for more information
on sugar and carb addiction.
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