Despite the endless health campaigns to encourage us to cut back, sugar still makes up a third of our calorie intake.
This is deeply worrying, say experts, who are increasingly concerned that our bodies were not designed to take such a sugar overload, and fear it is contributing to many modern ills, including diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
The problem is that sugar is highly addictive, as study after study has shown. Just last week researchers at Yale University revealed that dramatic falls in blood sugar, which occur after eating ‘bad’ carbohydrates such as sweets and biscuits, affect the part of the brain controlling impulse.
But as well as causing health problems, could an addiction to sugar be a sign of an underlying condition you may not know about? That’s the suggestion being made by Dr Jacob Teitelbaum in his book, Beat Sugar Addiction Now! He describes sugar addiction as the ‘canary in the coal mine’, saying it often points to an undiagnosed problem such as failing adrenal glands (which sit above the kidneys and pump out hormones) or even too much ‘bad’ bacteria in the gut.
WE NEED SPECIALIST HELP FOR FOOD ADDICTS.
Abstinence, TOTAL abstinence, is the only answer, but who wants to listen to that idea? Not the food addicts, certainly!
Abstinence from sugar, wheat potatoes and cows milk is a simple message that no one wants to hear.
Addiction can be defined as a chosen activity that has negative consequences on the physical and mental health of an individual and which is engaged in persistently, despite a full awareness of the negative consequences.
If you are a food addict, then you are choosing to eat food ingredients that you know have a detrimental effect on your physical and emotional well being. In full knowledge of that fact, you go on eating them. In fact, you feel a craving to eat them. You feel unable to stop eating them once you start. You know that to give them up completely and forever would be impossible for you. In fact you will probably go on eating them to excess, until the day you die.
In fact, your life is being shortened by your addiction to certain foods. You are eating to die. All addiction is slow suicide, and so is addiction to food.
Food addicts are most likely to be addicted to sugar, cow's milk, wheat, and potatoes. Althea Hayton has prepared for you a varied, healthy wholefood diet that completely eliminates all four of these common food ingredients.
It is a revelation to try it, even for a few days! Your food addictions will be clearly defined within a week or two:- then you can start eating to live.
Start with the book to change your addictive eating habits for good: FOOD AND YOU.
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