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Addiction to sweets is a growing problem in the 21st century. Excessive sugar consumption that gets out of control is the risk of excess calories during the day or health consequences such as diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease or hormonal disturbances.
Back in the 1980s, no one would have thought that highly processed products containing a tonne of sugar and other harmful food additives would be so readily available. Products, so-called sweets (bars, sweets, sugary drinks, gummy bears, …), which were produced on a mass scale, also had low prices and the convenience of eating everywhere, which helped to buy them when we don’t have time to prepare a meal.
Also important is a well-known substance such as sucrose, a popular white sugar, which, together with other sweeteners, helps us enjoy these products. Therefore, the addiction is often psychological (emotional) because we associate the substance or action with something that is pleasing to us.
Often sweet products accompany us in our feelings. We resort to them when we are euphoric, when we are rewarded, when we eat stress or when we feel better. Many of you may also think of sweets, biscuits or cakes with a warm and family atmosphere (something pleasant to escape into from the overwhelming harsh reality), such as grandma’s pastries or mother who offered you something sweet when you were depressed.
Sweet Addiction – Since when can we say that?
Very often we confuse the state of reaching for something sweet (when we think of sweet flavours, such as fruit, buns with honey or jam or juice) with the absolute need to eat something sweet, but products that are a pure source of sugar, such as bars, sweets, cakes, etc. sugary drinks, …
In fact, the natural physiological need to feel every taste in your daily diet means to prepare balanced meals that also contain a sweet taste. This can be done by adding vegetables, fruits or cereals or dairy products, especially milk (contains sugar – lactose).
A healthy organism, which is provided with a whole range of colors and flavors on the plate (with the eyes and the tongue, the receptors of taste), does not think about the consumption of sugary products, unlike a person addicted to sugar. It may sound strange, but it’s the same as with alcoholism, drug addiction, gambling or any other addiction, but it’s not being talked about so loudly yet. It should be treated in the same way as in other cases.
The signal that should worry us that it may become addicted to sugar is the feeling of being irritated, of being angry, of being angry, of being angry when we don’t eat something sweet, when we feel the need to eat it.
What can this result in adulthood?
Certain behaviors that we imitate in the early years become a habit that we do unconsciously and automatically as adults. When we are stressed, depressed, insecure, or if we want to recharge quickly when we are tired, we turn to highly processed products that contain large amounts of sugar.
By combining emotions and consuming sweets, we learn the habit of reaching for them in every emotional situation in which we are “sugar addicted.” Although it is true that simple sugar, although it has no nutritional value for our body, quickly increases the blood sugar level, which gives us more energy for a while, but just as quickly the glucose level decreases (as opposed to products that contain double or extra sugars).