Sugar withdrawal?

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  • williamwj2014
    williamwj2014 Posts: 750 Member
    edited September 2015
    Sugar withdrawal is not real. LOL

    /thread


    Now if we're talking caffeine withdrawal..that *kitten* is real! :P
  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
    Gianfranco_R wrote: »
    senecarr wrote: »
    GaleHawkins wrote: »
    wheatbellyblog.com/2012/04/wheat-is-an-opiate/

    OK here is an explanation by the doctor himself and he does not say an addiction caused by modern wheat will give you a high like heroin but that it will make you feel hungry a couple of hours after you eat it. On average this will cause a person eating wheat to eat 160,600 more calories a year than the same person would eat if they ate nothing containing gliadin.

    He writes, "This is the effect exerted by gliadin, the protein in wheat that was inadvertently altered by geneticists in the 1970s during efforts to increase yield. Just a few shifts in amino acids and gliadin in modern high-yield, semi-dwarf wheat became a potent appetite stimulant."

    Gliadin is a new term for me. I did find the below research entitled, "Is gliadin really safe for non‐coeliac individuals? Production of interleukin 15 in biopsy culture from non‐coeliac individuals challenged with gliadin peptides"

    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1954879/

    Sugar will not give you hunger like wheat he states. Most all eat sugar will also eat wheat I expect in one form or another. Because I gave up sugars and grains at the same time is the reason I tested what Dr. Davis stated about sugar by adding back sugar for eight days. It did not cause me to crash but I did gain 5-6 pounds. I will see how long it takes to lose that gain.

    Okay. If you want to say that wheat is an opiate and that therefore it is like heroin, you have to accept that endorphins (which comes from endogenous morphine, with morphine being an opiate) which are an opoid (biologically natural opiate) is therefore addictive too, just because the chemical structure is similar. Yet, I don't see daily posts on MFP about having exercise addiction or withdrawal. Could you tell me why that is?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise_addiction
    A. I didn't ask for a Wikipedia article on it, I asked why we don't see it daily on MFP.
    B. Some of the first statements in that article are about how it isn't a recognized condition.
  • RogerToo
    RogerToo Posts: 16,157 Member
    Azuriaz wrote: »
    Well it is all in your head. But human consciousness surfs on a sea of chemical reactions. The foods we consume are just one of the many things that affect those chemical reactions.

    Want proof? How many people have you heard say they won't make important decisions while hungry or tired?

    Hi
    That is also why they say do not go grocery shopping when You are hungry.

    Have a nice day
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