Addiction To Bad Food Is A Prescription For Failure

Addiction to bad food is a prescription for failure and an invitation to a health crisis!

For cancer patients, one of the most important factors that controls inflammation and boosts immunity is whole food nutrition. Food has the power to heal or hurt us and therefore plays an important role in our lives. Addiction to bad food is a recipe is a path towards disease.

Therefore reducing sugar and carbohydrate intake, both of which aid insulin resistance, which promotes inflammation and can promote tumor development. Dr. Lodi shares how a radiation oncologist in Arizona where he worked would give his patients snickers candy bars.

In fact, he would recommend that they buy it by the box, as they would be eating several candy bars per day to keep up their energy. The patients had to undergo PET scans, where radioactive glucose is injected into the body. Whatever cells in the body rapidly ate the glucose is considered cancerous.

Encouraging the patients to eat the candy bars, would be the same as giving a cigarette to a man with lung cancer. Sugar-laden foods, processed foods full of sweetener, and refined carbohydrates, such as bread, pasta, and chips, when consumed, all of these convert into sugar in your body. This sends your blood-sugar levels soaring.

According to the latest research, sugar in the body stimulates the pleasure centers in the brain. This is similar to what happens with cocaine and heroin use. This links into how addiction to bad food is a prescription for failure since these addictive cravings are often irresistible.

People’s Addiction to Bad Food Leads to a Path Other Than Health

Chemical addiction brings about changes in brain chemistry, causing binging, craving, withdrawal symptoms, and sensitization. In the same way, excess added sugar can, through changes in the same pathways cause addiction to amphetamines or alcohol.

Addiction to fats and sugars may be even harder to break since it is evident how sugar controls stress hormones. Unlike all dangerous substances, sugar is readily available, and socially acceptable.

Sugar has addictive properties, all experts agree, even The World Health Organization (WHO) has been cautioning people to reduce their intake of “free sugars” to less than 10 percent of daily calories since 1989. The WHO says that doing so can lower your risk for being obese, overweight, or experiencing tooth decay.

“Free sugars” include both the sugars naturally found in honey and fruit juice, and sugar added to food and drinks. On food labels, added sugars include words such as glucose, corn syrup, brown sugar, dextrose, maltose, and sucrose, as well as many others.[1]

Based on the quality of supporting evidence, these recommendations are ranked by WHO as “strong”. This means they can be adopted as a policy in most situations.[2]

In order to reverse the damage caused by sugar and processed food; detoxing the body is recommended followed by eating real, whole, fresh, anti-inflammatory foods; and as you learn the simple, fundamental skills to help, your body[3] recover.

Addiction to bad food is a prescription for failure, as it not only affects your health but also your relationships, which leads to a deep sense of isolation from others.[4]

A part of our cancer care program at Akesis Life focuses on proper nutrition. It’s important to understand that the body produces 2-3 million brand new cells per second. What you choose to eat is what will help build these new cells.

Do you want cells from fast food or from raw whole foods? While visiting Akesis Life you will learn how to fuel your body with proper nutrition that restores health and helps keep disease from developing.

[1] https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/experts-is-sugar-addictive-drug#4

[2] http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/sugar-guideline/en/

[3] https://experiencelife.com/article/beating-food-addiction/

[4] http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/sugar-guideline/en/

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