Do you feel like you 'try so hard to eat healthy all day only to then ruin it in the evening'?
This would have to be one of the most common statements I hear so I want to shed some light on this.
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I have always known sugar to be unhealthy and one of the most least healthy things we can put in our body’s, but it’s not until I really stop to consider what this substance, or food group, has really done to humanity that I truly start to get concerned, and even scared for our future, as a nation.
Sugar, for so many, has a love-hate relationship. We love the taste of it, but hate what it does to our body. But unfortunately, as humans, we are programmed to follow either one of two options in decision making: to gain pleasure, or to avoid pain. So if we apply this to sugar, we focus on the fact that we love the taste, rather than hate what it does to our body. There is research showing that sugar is as, if not more, addictive than class A drugs, heroine and the like. With sugar tasting so good, being so readily available, in so many of the daily foods we consume, and with having the potential to be so addictive, we either fall into the trap of having a sugar addiction or are constantly fighting the desire to want to have sugary foods because they are literally in our faces everywhere we go. For a moment think about how the world would be if everywhere we went there were billboards, TV commercials, packaging and takeaway outlets that all were advertising fantastically cheap deals on heroine… Sure, heroine makes people high, go crazy and do really stupid things, but I believe sugars also responsible for equally nasty things – mood swings, eating disorders, obesity, depression, metabolic syndrome, cancers, diabetes, heart attacks, heart disease…shall I go on? All those advertising methods used by companies who manufacture these high-sugar products haven’t any interest in your health. Their sole purpose is to sell their product and watch the dollar signs go up. Don’t get me wrong, I love people succeeding and making money in this world, and I do genuinely believe everyone is entitled to every cent they earn, but these food manufacturers are just going to keep pumping out high-sugar foods because they play on our emotions, they form a craving in the people who consume them making them want more, and they know that above all else, sugar-loaded foods are going to make them more money than any other type of food. It’s a business for them, not a desire to care if you get diabetes, cancers, heart attacks, or whether you reach old age or not. They use cunning market ploys and disguise sugar in their products by using numerous different names, because, without the sugar, their product won’t nearly be as successful. For years the focus of obesity has been on the need to reduce fat intake, meanwhile sugar overdosing has snuck in the back door. I think the health industry, for a moment there, got it wrong – sure high fat diets aren’t ideal for the human body, but sugar is by far more deadly. Often people are oblivious (or in denial) to the quantity of sugar they actually consume on a daily or weekly basis. Foods that are seemingly harmless can be riddled with more sugar than you realise, and yes, everything in moderation is true, but if you have a small moderation of several different high-sugar foods in your day, then your sugar consumption isn’t in moderation at all. Let’s look at a common example: If you are a person who adds that ‘innocent’ teaspoon (or three) of sugar to your coffee, you do the maths… By my calculations 1 teaspoon is roughly 10grams of sugar. So if you have…
Unfortunately, it doesn’t just stop at the coffees. Consider for a moment if you regularly consume any of the following…
What to do if you have an addiction to sugar There are so many ways sugar can affect us, therefore there are also so many ways people will respond to reducing or cutting out sugar. The four biggest points are…
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