Want to balance and boost your mood? Reduce your intake of refined sugar.
Recent studies reveal that sugar on the brain behaves much like a drug addiction. The sweetness is pleasing to the palate, but “just a spoonful of sugar” slows your immune system down, upsets the body's mineral balance, disrupts cellular function, contributes to hyperactivity, anxiety, depression, concentration difficulties, crankiness, and gives you headaches. Substitute sugars and sugar alcohols can be even worse. The chemical structure of Splenda (sucralose), for example, has more in common with pesticides than it does with food.
Sugar hides, in alarming qualities, within foods that are packaged to look healthy. Increase your food label literacy: corn syrup, malt dextrose, rice syrup, evaporated cane juice, agave nectar, and molasses are added sweeteners.
Satisfy your sweet tooth with fresh fruit. Your body and mind will thank you!
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http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0000698
Recent studies reveal that sugar on the brain behaves much like a drug addiction. The sweetness is pleasing to the palate, but “just a spoonful of sugar” slows your immune system down, upsets the body's mineral balance, disrupts cellular function, contributes to hyperactivity, anxiety, depression, concentration difficulties, crankiness, and gives you headaches. Substitute sugars and sugar alcohols can be even worse. The chemical structure of Splenda (sucralose), for example, has more in common with pesticides than it does with food.
Sugar hides, in alarming qualities, within foods that are packaged to look healthy. Increase your food label literacy: corn syrup, malt dextrose, rice syrup, evaporated cane juice, agave nectar, and molasses are added sweeteners.
Satisfy your sweet tooth with fresh fruit. Your body and mind will thank you!
Read more at:
http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0000698