As I read through all the comments, I was struck by how many of us struggle with feeling addicted to sugar. So, in light of this issue that many of us face, I put together a page workbook on How to Break the Sugar Habit, and I want to offer it to you for free.
Many of us struggle with using the food we eat as a substitute for filling a hunger we have in another part of our lives. We need nourishment in many forms. We all have real needs for love, friendship, laughter, movement, creativity, purpose, spirituality, meaningful work, relaxation, and beauty in our lives.
We must feed our whole beings or we will end up full of food but never really satisfied. Clearly, eating well is not the only part of being well. You can eat a whole lot of kale and never get close to the healing effect a loving embrace, deep belly laugh, or sweat-soaked hike in the woods can offer. So, how do we care for our whole selves when, as mothers, we lead busy, other-focused lives? We start, little by little, weaving true sweetness into our days.
We choose to honor all the parts of ourselves with small tokens of acknowledgment. And the fantastic thing is, when we start filling up one part of ourselves, so often it naturally spills over and fills other parts of ourselves… They are all connected.
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Medically reviewed by Debra Sullivan, Ph. Causes Stop the craving Tips Talk with a pro Takeaway Sugar is almost everywhere — added to countless products advertised on every form of media, and included in nearly every holiday and casual meal.
What causes sugar cravings? Can you rewire your cravings? How to manage cravings. When to talk with a pro. The bottom line. Read this next. If it's so bad for us, then why does sugar taste so good? It turns out, scientists have been asking this question for decades. There are hundreds of peer-reviewed journal articles trying to answer that very question.
But let's stop a moment before we blame their parents for letting them indulge. Studies have shown that the love children have for sugar may be innate. In other words, kids may have a built-in love of all things sweet. The preference for sweet foods is found to be already evident in newborns , who prefer sweeter formulas. It also seems to be shared by children globally across cultures and climates. One study showed that adults tend to max out their sugar preference at about the level of sugar in a can of soda, but older children still liked drinks that were twice as sweet.
This adaptation was a survival mechanism: Eat fructose and decrease the likelihood you will starve to death. The sweet taste was adaptive in other ways as well. In the brain, sugar stimulates the "feel-good" chemical dopamine. This euphoric response makes sense from an evolutionary perspective, since our hunter-gatherer ancestors predisposed to "get hooked" on sugar probably had a better chance of survival some scientists argue that sugar is an addictive drug.
In other words, anything that made people more likely to eat sugar would also make them more likely to survive and pass along their genes. All the food challenges our prehistoric ancestors faced mean that biologically, we have trained ourselves to crave sweets.
The problem today is that humans have too much of the sweet stuff available to them. Weight gain was not a real risk when our instincts meant we might scarf down the nutritional equivalent of a carrot whenever we happened to stumble across one. Drinking soda all day — the contemporary equivalent — is a different story.
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