Sugar Addiction – The facts
November 7, 2008
Sugar addiction is mostly used to justify consumption of more sugar. We don’t think that sugar addiction could be as dangerous as drug addiction.
Craving for sugar
It is very easy to crave for sugary foods. We all want to get something sweet after meals. Sugar can make you happy. Studies have proven that human beings right from childhood crave sugar. Thus sugar addiction starts from birth. The brain releases some natural chemicals known as opioids after eating sugar. They give the body the feeling of intense pleasure. So we start craving for more of it. That is what causes craving for sugar.
Effects of sugar
When you eat sugar, the pancreas secretes insulin to help convert sugar to energy. The more sugar there is the more insulin is secreted. When more insulin is released, blood sugar levels go down rapidly. This leads to an immediate ‘crush’ after eating the sugar. Insulin also stimulates storage of fat. So the more sugar you eat the more sugar that gets into the body, the fatter you become. Sugar left in the mouth provokes tooth decay. Finally too much sugar in the body will lead to diabetes.
How addiction happens
In experiments involving rats, it was observed that it is easy to develop sugar addiction. When rats were given sugar, they develop addiction like behaviour symptoms including withdrawal and bingeing symptoms. They relapse again after they were weaned off sugar and when they were offered sugar again.
In addition to that, brain scans on human beings show that the sight of sugar foods has the same effects as the sight of crack pipes on addicts. Sugar addiction is therefore not different from cocaine addiction.
The sugar trap
Currently there are a lot of sugar foods on the market. Even things that don’t sound like sugar have sugar in them, for example ketchup, salad dressing. Fruit juice is reinforced with sugar. That is the trap for the modern man.
Kick the desire
You need conscious efforts to avoid sugar addiction. Check the sugar content of what you buy. Switch to healthier foods.
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