Posted by Hello321 on January 23, 2016, at 23:22:55
Lately I've gotten a bit interested in how sugar effects the brain and body. My interest started when I came across a video presentation on YouTube done at Callifornia University (if I remember right). But since watching it I've read more into the effects sugar has on us and am starting to think sugar as basically an addictive poison that makes things taste better. And in the past I'd notice how someone I know who is addicted to a substance seems to have little interest in anything other than what he's addicted to. And that if he didn't have this substance to make him feel "satisfied", that he would be up for doing things that would normally interest him. And now I'm thinking the same idea would apply to sugar. Almost everything we eat has sugar added to it. Even things you don't think of as sweet, like bread. And it is used to.make things sweeter that would already be sweet without it, like jelly. I think our dopamine system is always being put into overdrive by all the sugar we take in throughout every day. And that your dopamine response would be more normalized on a diet like the ones humans lived on before processed foods took over.
The past few years my mood has been very sensitive to foods I eat. And eating a chocolate donut is like heaven for me :D but I'm going to try cutting put added sugar in my diet. I stocked my fridge with vegetables and almonds. And Monday I'm going to eat only that, with water being all I drink. No added sugar. No caffeine. No refined grains. I'm going to try sticking to a diet like this, and I believe I'll definitively benefit from it with my mental and physical health.
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