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Cravings for sweets - how to overcome?
Psychological addiction to sweets, like any other addiction, has a connection with the work of the brain, or rather the amygdala. Carrying out experiments, scientists have found that the activation of neurons in the amygdala at the time of receiving sweets programs the body to remember the pleasant effect and in the future the development of addiction to sweets.
But the reasons are the reasons, and how to overcome the craving for sweets is up to the addicts themselves.
Many experts in the field of endocrinology and dietetics suggest gradually replacing sugar with products similar in taste: honey, fruits, sweet plants. Pharmaceuticals have developed a number of drugs that reduce sugar cravings, but the effect of their use still raises a number of questions.
One way or another, but for the brain to work, sweets are necessary, and the question of getting rid of cravings for sweets comes down to the problem of reducing the amount of sweets consumed, and not to completely abandoning them.
What you can do to limit your intake of sweets:
- It is better to eat sweets before going to work, so that their use has some meaning;
- Eat sweets after a full meal, so that there is less space in the stomach for eating it;
- Alternate eating sweets with very sweet fruits;
- Do not eat sweets and fatty foods at the same time: carbohydrates and fats compete for primacy in assimilation by the body;
- Do not get carried away by snacking on sweets, candies, chewing gum, sweet air fresheners - granules for the oral cavity, they will add sugar to your daily diet;
- When thinking about sweets, try to occupy your attention with needlework, precise work - this will distract the brain from its addictions at least for a while.
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