It has long been known that a strong craving for foods that contain high amounts of sugar is not due to lack of willpower or, even worse, a natural feature. If earlier people who can not live a day without sweets, at which, at the sight of their favorite delicacies, heart palpitations trembled and knees trembled, they jokingly called sweet tooth, but now researchers without hesitation call such behavior food addiction, and she, in all seriousness, somethingreminds narcotic.
Why there is a food dependence
Recently, an experiment was conducted that a group of animals got unlimited access to harmful food. Behind their actions was to observe a group of scientists who were to analyze the course of the experiment.
So, what did the animals do? Researchers emphasize that they could not be satisfied with the products offered and ate them even when the feeling of hunger was completely satisfied. With all this animals were almost not distracted by their usual occupations.
We must agree that it is quite similar to the narcotic or other similar dependence.
Who is at risk and is addicted to food dependency? Firstly, these are people who have to live in a state of constant stress, intense feelings and unrest.
Food becomes their main source of positive emotions. Secondly, these are the children of those parents who, from the very beginning, instilled in them the wrong attitudes concerning eating behavior. For example, they forced everyone to eat up to the last tiny, even if the child did not want to eat, or was deprived of their dinner as punishment.
Anyway, in the subconscious of a person there was a wrong opinion about the food, because of what he in the future to have, sometimes, unbearably.
How to get rid of food addiction
What can you do when you discover your eating habits?
- Breakfast follows a protein-rich diet. Not carbohydrates.
- It will be useful to have a food journal in which you will need to write down what products and in what quantities were consumed during the day. This will help control your diet, will make it clear what to change in it, what to add, and what to eliminate.
- It's not necessary to completely refuse sweets, but you need to eat only after a full meal, rich in protein and complex carbohydrates. On a full stomach it will be easier to control the amount eaten.
If all these tips do not help you, then you should contact a psychologist.
Getting rid of food addiction is a slow and difficult task, requiring tremendous effort on yourself. On this path, failures and failures are possible, but one can not stop.
Any dependence harms to health and spoils a life, therefore the result costs or stands that for the sake of it or him to try.