We all know the feeling: that craving for something sweet strike in a mid-afternoon after a stressful day at work or at home, or that make you wake up at night and run around looking for a refrigerator, cookie ice cream or even a glass of milk. You did not ... invented. It is real in your mind, and in your physical body ... it comes to addiction ...
The sugar addiction begins at birth. Breast milk is very sweet, so even infants begin to recognize the pleasurable feeling they get from sweet foods. But once the body has experienced the sweet rewards of sugar. It does not take much time to be officially official. Now, what is the cause of it? After eating something sugary, the brain releases natural chemicals called opioids (not sound any bell?), Which give the body a feeling of pleasure. The brain then recognizes this feeling and begins to want more.
The researchers found that there are certain areas of the brain (in particular, the hippocampus, the insulin and the caudate) that are activated when you're craving for sugar. There is also scientific evidence demonstrating that these same areas of the brain are activated when drug addicts crave drugs, which demonstrates how " real " a sugar addiction can be. But what actually happens in the body when you consume sugar?
After sugar enters the blood, increased levels of sugar in the blood, causing the pancreas to release insulin, which is needed to convert sugar into energy ... Insulin converts sugar into a source of instant energy, which explains the shock get from a donut or a chocolate bar. After high levels of insulin are released, the sugar levels in the blood begin to decline rapidly, resulting in " collapse " is heard immediately after eating foods that contain high-sugar levels, insulin also stimulated fat storage when not too much energy is to be used immediately after.
Therefore, if you eat a lot of sugar and not exercise immediately after ... you're on your way to gaining weight ... and will be fat and not muscle precious! Sugar has also been linked to several diseases, including " Rush increase mood and depression of the immune system and diabetes.
Recent studies show that opioids in the brain are stimulated by sugar-like chemicals stimulated using heroin and morphine ... pretty scary? The same studies show that sugar is also active in areas of the brain that reinforce the behaviors. This means that, like addiction to heroin. Your body will very quickly learn to want more of the substance that makes you feel good and make you feel a real " need " it.
To prove this ... Suffice it to say that the brain scans performed on human subjects have shown that the sight of ice cream in normal patients generated the same feelings of pleasure in the brain as images of crack pipes did for crack addicts? Again ... very scary.
Now consider that the average American consumes about 160 kg of sugar each year. This is not surprising when you consider that sugar is in everything from ketchup to the sauce and soup to corned beef deli sugar can be incorporated into many products under many pseudonyms. The common names for sugar may include sucrose, fructose, dextrose and high-fructose corn syrup, none of which actually sounds like the word " sugar ", but essentially means the same thing.
Nowadays, there is a campaign in progress against high-fructose corn syrup, but if you are replacing it with fructose and dextrose, you will have the same result ... Better read the entire label before trusting the words " No high-fructose corn syrup, " highlighted in a lot of products. Even if you only have one can of regular (non-diet) soda (not the King size), you are consuming almost 10 teaspoons of sugar, which is about the maximum recommended daily allowance. Sugar not gives your body, nothing but a load of energy and a lot of consequences.
Finally, some good news: your body needs only 72 hours to read the addiction (like most drugs) ... So, when you begin to seriously diet, you can expect the first 3 days to be really, though, because your body will fight to maintain his sense of pleasure, but after that ... it's mostly mental!
* Note : Image from Internet
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