In my never ending quest to try to make sure I never have a recurrence of cancer I am always looking for ways to improve my health.
Two of the things that have had me concerned are my addiction to sugar and my high anxiety. I do have Xanax for my anxiety, but I’d hate to have to take it all my life, I’m only 58. To my knowledge there is no drug to help with my addiction to sugar.
Late this summer I learned that one of the women at my Acupuncturists office had been certified as an Acupuncture Detoxification Specialist. She trained in Memphis TN, where it’s my understanding that when you are arrested and convicted for drugs you go to mandatory drug treatment and you get mandatory AcuDetox.
Knowing that I have an addictive personality, I was sure my sugar was an addiction. I then read this by Dr. Frank Lipman MD
“One study out of France, presented at the 2007 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience showed that when rats (who metabolize sugar much like we do) were given the choice between water sweetened with saccharin and intravenous cocaine, 94% chose the saccharin water. When the water was sweetened with sucrose (sugar), the same preference was observed – the rats overwhelmingly chose the sugar water. When the rats were offered larger doses of cocaine, it did not alter their preference for the saccharin or sugar water. Even rats addicted to cocaine, switched to sweetened water when given the choice. In other words, intense sweetness was more rewarding to the brain than cocaine.”I knew sugar wasn’t good for me. I don’t think it’s good for anyone. I don’t mean sugar in the form of fruit, but sugar as in cakes, candy, cookies. And I was a candy bar a day kind of a girl. I never met a cake, cookie or pie that I didn’t like. Yet I couldn’t stop eating it. And really how important was it? Sugar makes me happy, why not eat it?
http://www.sfn.org/ Society of Neuroscience.