“Sugar Addiction”: Why Psychologists Ignore It And How To Kick It
What is new?
From my experiments and personal experience come three tools that help you tame compulsory eating habits: a scientific self-assessment test and two strategies to get you back in control over your calorie balance.
Why is this important?
The idea of sugar and food addiction is controversial among scientists. But you can’t wait until their hair-splitting over definitions ends. Because that end is nowhere near.
Where to go from here
Try the three tools and let me know how they fare in helping you achieve your weight and tame your “food addictions”.
A popular concept
“I heard that white sugar reacts like heroin in the brain. I believe it. I still struggle with my sugar addiction sometimes”
That’s what Alina Pitt commented on one of my articles. Her remark motivated me to write about this phenomenon that everyone, including Oprah and Newsweek, seems to take for granted:
