Sugar Addiction

Your Body:

Sugar grabs onto our human body and just doesn’t want to let go. A sugar addiction can be recognized by you as a need or craving. We usually listen to it, don't we? Remember that candy bar or soda pop you had yesterday?

The body gets programmed to expect sweet in the diet every few hours. I think one of the times of day, that a lot of people are craving sugar is after the evening meal.

Is that when your sugar addiction kicks in?

The blood sugar rises quickly to a high level after a refined carbohydrate is eaten. A sense of satisfaction happens – as though a large meal had been eaten – only to be replaced in a few hours with an empty feeling and hunger – sweet craving – when the blood sugar drops from high levels to lower levels.

It takes 8 hours for your body to metabolize 1 tbsp. sugar.

Overweight Begins

As this cycle continues, fat cells become overloaded with fat that is trapped and unable to be metabolized. Water may be retained. Overweight and sluggish physical activity occur.

Vitamin and Mineral Deficiency:

When sugar replaces vital nutrients in food, the result is vitamin and mineral deficiency. For example, a zinc deficiency may occur, which may be associated with altered taste sensation.

Frequently, someone with a zinc deficiency loses his ability to appreciate the taste of food. He may eat foods containing enormous quantities of sugar or salt and not recognize the quantity he is eating.

Sugar Cravings Also Called Sugar Addiction

Obesity is characterized by a decreased responsiveness to insulin. That is when it is said, you are insulin resistant. Insulin stimulates the synthesis of fat in the body.Refined carbohydrates in the diet, especially sugar, is involved in the typical American problem of overweight.

Candida:

A diet rich in sugar and other simple carbohydrates literally feeds yeast and promotes overgrowth, creating an overabundance of Candida.

Diabetes:

Obesity is one of the principal factors responsible for the onset of diabetes in the adult.

Hyperactive Children Have a Sugar Addiction:

Most hyperactive children are consuming diets high in refined carbohydrates in which sugar and various chemical additives are plentiful.

Many hyperactive children are eating all the time. There are many reasons for this.

The processed food that the children are consuming lack proper nutrition. The body needs an adequate supply of vitamins, enzymes, minerals and more. If their bodies are not getting this, the kids may just continue to eat in order to get what their bodies need.

The children may be driven to eat by the homeostatic (balance) disruption that occurs when a high-sugar intake results in wide swings of blood sugar from high to low. The lows are usually more dominant.

Smoking Cigarettes:

An interesting fact that I didn’t know is next to the food processing industry, the tobacco industry is the biggest sugar customer in our country. Taken from William Dufty’s book, Sugar Blues.

An average of 5% sugar is added to cigarettes, up to 20% in cigars and as much as 40% in pipe tobacco.

Sweet Taste in Toothpaste:

There is even a sweet taste in our baby food and our tooth paste.

As children, most of us, were rewarded for our good marks at school and our good behavior with some kind of sweet. Today, the little ones are taken out for a donut and juice, while Mom or Dad have their coffee.

Sweeteners:

A lot of us use sweeteners in our tea, coffee or diet pop.

Even though we have probably made a healthier choice in some respects, basically, any kind of sweetener keeps that sweet need going.

Aspartame has been found to increase the risk of cancers like Lymphoma and Leukemia at quantities equivalent to 4-5 servings of diet soda in a 150 pound person. There have been ongoing studies happening about aspartame and disagreements between the FDA and the company that did tests.

You can read more about this in Dr. Hugo Rodier's book called Sweet Death.

Herbs for Sugar Addiction

Stevia may be especially beneficial to diabetics because of it's hypoglycemic effect.

Some studies have shown that stevia can help control hyperglycemia, improve glucose tolerance, decrease plasma glucose levels and reduce glucose production in the liver.

Zylitol is also good. It actually helps to reduce bad bacteria in the mouth and so can be a good choice when making an effort to reduce tooth decay.

Taking Licorice Root several times per day, will help decrease your desire for sugar.

Honey:

Honey is manufactured by honeybees collecting the nectar of flowers. The bees choose flowers that have a 15% and above sugar content in their nectar.

The minerals that are in Honey are

• copper
• manganese
• silica
• chlorine
• aluminum
• magnesium

Other minerals and trace minerals include phosphorous, iron, sodium, potassium, chromium, pantothenic acid, thiamine, riboflavin, nictonic acid, pyridoxine, biotin and folic acid.

Coconut Sugar

Coconut sugar is the most amazing product on the market today. I love it! It actually comes from the top of the coconut palm tree flowers.

Now is the Time to Quit:

By using sweeteners, it's a sign that you are still in the throws of a sugar addiction.

If you just quit sugar, in a few days, your taste buds and your thermostat are fixed, so that you may taste the natural sugars of all foods.

Our taste changes when we no longer eat sweets. We learn to appreciate smells, tastes and flavours that we formerly avoided or did not recognize. Food acquires new meaning, because it gains an qualitative signific

Even drinking a glass of pure water has a wonderful new taste for you. No calories there either!

Then when you do consume refined sugar you perceive it as too much and too toxic.

Believe me! Quitting sugar would make it so the fruits and whole grain breads are enough to satisfy the sweet cravings.

Using sweeteners of any kind, just prolongs the carbohydrate addiction.

Brain Washing:

Cheap foods full of High Fructose Corn Syrup is high on the list of foods eaten in this country.

Our children (and some of us too), are living a more sedentary lifestyle. Watching TV ads promoting refined and fast foods. Our teens and children are eating a larger quantity of bad food.

Here are some interesting facts:

The average American annually consume -

• 60 pounds of cakes/cookies
• 23 gallons of ice cream
• 7 pounds of potato chips
• 365 servings of soda pop
• 756 doughnuts

Is it any wonder that people have so many ailments and then take to drugs to 'fix' them?

Empty Calories

Sugar provides empty calories – meaning it has no protein, no enzymes, no vitamins, no minerals and no fiber. Why eat it?

When you want to know how much sugar is in a product that you are purchasing, one of things to know is that all ingredients are listed in descending order by weight. Depending upon the position of sugar in the list of ingredients gives you an idea of whether this products contains a lot of sugar or just a little.

Keep in mind, they are all extra calories for you. The American Heart Associates recommends 100 calories per day (about 6 teaspoons or 24 grams of sugar) for most women and no more than 150 calories per day (about 9 teaspoons or 36 grams of sugar) for most men.

Try to resist eating products that have added sugar, especially those listed at the top or near the top of the list. This will help you rid yourself of this sugar addiction.

Sugars go by many different names. Here are a few of them.

Agave nectar

Brown sugar

Cane crystals

Cane sugar

Corn sweetener

Corn syrup

Crystalline fructose

Dextrose

Evaporated cane juice

Fructose

Fruit juice concentrates

Glucose

High-fructose corn syrup

Honey

Invert sugar

Lactose

Maltose

Malt syrup

Molasses

Raw sugar

Sucrose

Sugar

Syrup

Eat a non processed food diet. Home cooking is good! On this website I have provided you with many dietary recipes and gluten free recipes.

Hopefully, you will try some of them. They will help in your effort to win your battle with sugar addiction.

There is no doubt that sugar acts as a toxic substance that wreaks havoc on your health.

It's hard to do, but give it up!

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