Breaking The Habit Of Sugar
Sugar can be hard to escape from when we are trying to limit it within the diet because it's found in great number of different food products on the market today. Cookies, chips, cereals, pastas, sauces, dips, juices, dressings; sugar can be found in all of it. Some have even gone far enough to make the argument that sugar might be the culprit that is to blame for many of the health issues that people face in society today.
Research that was conducted in 2016 by researchers at Duke University, helped us further understand the hard-to-break addiction by analyzing how the addictive chemical (sugar) is able to rewire the brain, so as to change how the brain controls electrical signals. More specifically, it effects how we go about either pursuing a reward or trying to stop ourselves from pursuing it. Daily/habitual exposure to this chemical has shown for many years that it can bring about some negative/inconvenient side effects.
The researchers at Duke found that sugar-addicted mice in the study had demonstrated that they effectively lost their ability to exercise any personal braking capacity; in infringed upon their ability to try and regulate their own behavior.
In September of last year it was also uncovered that the sugar industry, via the Sugar Research Foundation, had funded at least 3 Harvard scientists in the 60s, to try and play down the worries surrounding the possible connection between sugar and heart disease. And to instead prompt worry in the direction of saturated fats instead.
There is a trend in the market to move away from sugar and to opt for alternatives (some a lot better than others), and we can see this with the rise of sweeteners/alt-sugar options that we now have. Two of the more popular options are: Xylitol and Erythritol, which are great alternatives that have sprung-up in the market in the past few years and they continue to gain support in the market as more people look for sugar alternatives.
Researchers believe that perhaps one day they might be able to target those specific neurological circuits in people's minds, that are associated with reinforcing cravings etc, so as to help them to kick their habits they'd like to be rid of.
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Sources:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2016/01/24/why-breaking-habits-is-even-harder-than-we-think/#210e0dd329cd
http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(15)01134-4
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/books/review/case-against-sugar-gary-taubes.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-industry-shifted-blame-to-fat.html
Excellent! ☆☆☆☆☆😎
This is a great post. Many days as much as I know about this stuff, I catch myself indulging too much and cut myself off LOL.
Even the sugar buried in the starches and "food" type stuff and not outright candies I am aware of.
I hope everyone on Steemit reads this! Have a good day man
I was thinking this the whole time, Too many doctors and etc try to help their clients off sugar but don't realize that even unsweetened carbs trigger the same addiction. To digest carbs, you must break them down into sugars. Which makes a bowl of white rice or a big baked potato about as sugary as a 1/4 cup of sugar.
Amen.
Fabulous post @doitvoluntarily
Breaking the sugar habit is really hard, taking a teaspoonful of Organic cold pressed Coconut Oil helps with cravings and withdrawals.
Some Nutritionist believe that sugar should be classed as a class A drug and is as additive as Cocaine
There's a book by William Dufty called Sugar Blues...everybody should read this. Sugar is 10x as addictive as heroin. It's been known since Colonial times that processed sugar causes cancer. Also, even if you don't use sugar, drink pop or eat sweets...the average American still eats 50 lbs. of sugar a year!
thanks for that rec!
I believe that a good comment to your post would be "sweeet" :)
I agree: sugar is a dangerous drug. I’m trying to break from my sugar-consuming habit too at the moment. I used to be good at it, only getting my sugars from fruit juices and fresh fruits. But I let myself slip over the holidays, stuffing my face with pastries, desserts and candies. Now I have to exercise some self-discipline and get back to my healthier diet with almost zero added sugar in my food.
why I bought a freezedrier. eating way more healthier now and can plan for it in the future always, because I bought a freezedrier :)
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It's very interesting post!! i love the sweet !!
Exchellent job dear @doitvoluntarily :)
@doitvoluntarily I like this post a lot
I barely take sugar - only when eating out and probably been sneaked to what I ordered cause - it is one of those food that causes dementia and it encourages Alzheimer's disease .
Hiya @doitvoluntarily. This would be a great addition to the new paleo tag, so people can understand how harmful it is, and not feel bad that they have difficulty giving it up. https://steemit.com/created/paleo
Can I be cheeky and suggest you change one of your tags to paleo, maybe life?