Sugar addiction

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How about general food addiction vs. simply a sugar addiction. It all comes down to food and maybe if you educate yourself on the science and/or biology behind it, you'll have a better understanding and will be better prepared to eliminate it.

Food addiction is essentially no different than drug addiction. Certain foods, especially those whose calories are absorbed very rapidly, signal the reward centers of the brain, causing dopamine to be released as these foods are eaten. The trouble-causing foods include:

•Processed/refined foods, especially sweets
•High-fat foods or other high-calorie foods, such as fried food
•Excessive salt
•Higher-fat animal products

Although dopamine is involved in many processes in the body, it also gives you a feeling of euphoria or a “high.” Just as addictive drugs, that can give you a “high,” the euphoria of dopamine is short-lived and can be followed by a “low” that causes depression, lack of pleasure, fatigue, and difficulty concentrating.

In addition to the effects addictive foods have on brain neurotransmitters, the build-up of metabolic wastes from eating unhealthful foods also complicates and contributes to addictive overeating. This is because withdrawal discomfort from metabolic toxins occurs in the non-feeding, non-digestive state, driving unhealthful eaters to eat too frequently to quell ill feelings, particularly fatigue, headache, and stomach cramping.

It is physically painful to stop smoking, drinking, and eating unhealthy foods. The feelings of shakiness, nausea, headaches, stomach cramping, fatigue, and uneasiness that make people feel they have to eat something are the result of detoxification symptoms from eating unhealthful food.

To conquer food addiction permanently, you must avoid highly flavored and calorically concentrated processed foods. You need to flood the body with high-nutrient foods to normalize detoxification channels.

When we experience this variety of neurologic and metabolic side effects from eating unhealthy foods, it can create unfavorable symptoms, such as:

•Anxiety
•Impaired emotions and thoughts
•Impulsiveness
•Aggression
•Compulsiveness
•Lack of self-control

Food addiction fuels our nation’s health care crisis and obesity epidemic. The answer to keeping our natural potential for food addiction under control is to eat more natural, whole plant foods. Adopting a Nutritarian diet-style allows for a comfortable, and satisfied feeling, yet avoids the extreme “highs” and “lows” of low-micronutrient eating. This allows us to enjoy our food when we eat it, and then later have the ability to enjoy other parts of our lives, without being distracted by the effects of food addiction and its associated ill feelings.

Low-nutrient, high-glycemic foods are also associated with depressed mood, making life more difficult for the food addict. Abstaining from unhealthy, addictive foods is hard at first, but doing so brings tremendous benefits.

So you're saying there is french fry or mac & cheese (neither of which is inherent "unhealthy") withdrawal?

No, she's not saying that. The quack she plagiarized is though.

First of all, if you bothered to actually read, and not just skim responses, you would see that clearly I did not plagiarize and was quick to respond with regard to forgetting to add the source. Second, just because one has an opinion that's different from yours does not make them a quack. People who are strong, intelligent and caring have an open mind and tend to lift one another up, not bring each other down. I am glad I know which side of that fence you're on. Have a glorious day

You're response was not there when I was typing mine so I offer my apologies.

But yes, he's a quack.
Different opinions make individuals. Different facts make quacks.

No problem.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

But they are not entitled to their own facts.

What the actual F does this even mean? Like, why would even put this here? It has no bearing what so ever on the original post or conversation that followed... really? I can't even....