I understand the importance of eliminating excess sugar from the body. Since more than 40 years, I've incorporated sugar withdrawal into the treatment of countless chronically ill patients. I've also treated thousands of patients whose chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia was aggravated by sugar addiction.
Are you aware of the cause of your sugar addiction?
I can also relate to the issue. In 1975, as a former sugar addict, I developed chronic fatigue syndrome. My recovery was largely based on my ability to overcome my sugar addiction.
The canary is in the coalmine. This is usually a sign of a bigger problem. Sugar is not something we dislike. We just don't want to see you sickening and feeling ill because of sugar. We want you to be healthy and happy! You will feel better when you address the issues that come with your sugar addiction. Let us help you get off the “sugar-roller coaster”.
Sugar detox is a diet-related process (stop eating sweets). Dietary changes are the most common method to break sugar addiction. Wellness requires a deeper level of treatment. You may have failed to achieve success with the “cold-turkey” approach without nutrition strategies, treatment guidelines and support. This is because removing sugar from your diet is only one part of a comprehensive plan that addresses the mind, the body and the spirit.
Medical triage is the most effective way to treat sugar addiction. It involves assessing the severity of each issue and then prioritizing treatment. Many medical self-help book pick out a small part of the problem, but miss the bigger picture. This leads to frustration and stopping your program before you are able to get better. The Complete Guide to Beating Sugar Addiction now! was my goal when I wrote it. I want to provide you with an easy and organized approach so that you can successfully kick sugar addiction, along with the hidden issues driving your addiction.
The Complete Guide for Beating Sugar Addiction Right Now! This book will guide you through each type of sugar dependency, encouraging you to switch from a high-sugar to a low sugar diet without having to sacrifice the joys of eating and food. This book is based on a flexible and realistic approach. I may offer suggestions but I also believe in personalized medicine. We will provide guidelines on healthy eating, sugar substitutes, and treatments that can help with withdrawal symptoms and healing the body. However, we urge you to listen to your intuition, trust your instincts, and to follow your body's lead as you heal. We will present the most current information and resources in a format that is easy to understand and use, so that you can improve your health and feel better quickly.
Sugar Addiction: Four Types
You'll first need to determine which type of sugar-addict you are. Imagine it as a roadtrip. First, decide how you will get there: without sugar addiction and feeling good. This book is your road map for wellness. We provide directions for your inner voyage, a journey which will heal your mind and body as well. This journey will change your life.
Sugar addictions are characterized by different causes, and therefore require different treatment. Here are four main types of sugar abuse:
Type 1: Energy Loan Shark
Are you addicted to caffeine and sugar?
If you're constantly fatigued and craving sugar (and caffeine), sometimes improving nutrition, sleep, or exercise is all that's needed. You won't require as much sugar or caffeine to boost your energy when you have more energy. We'll show how to use coffee in moderation and benefit from it. In chapter 1, you'll learn how to boost your energy using a healthy and easy method.
Type 2: Feed me Now or I Will Kill You
Your adrenal glands are exhausted by stress
It is vital to treat adrenal fatigue if you are irritable and crash when stressed. In chapter 2, you'll discover how to nourish your adrenals, and finally beat sugar addiction.
Type 3: The Happy Ho-Ho Hunter
Sugar cravings due to yeast/candida growth
If you suffer from chronic sinusitis, irritable colon syndrome, or chronic nasal congestion, it is important to treat yeast overgrowth. In chapter 3, you will learn about probiotics and sugar addiction. You can also begin taking steps towards wellness.
Type 4: Depression and craving carbs
Sugar cravings due to your period, menopause or andropause
Women who are experiencing sugar cravings may have estrogen and progesterone deficiencies. This is especially true for women who experience severe irritability around their periods, or those who experienced a worsening of symptoms when entering perimenopause. This is often manifested as PMS (premenstrual symptoms, associated with progesterone deficiencies) in a woman's early years. She may also experience severe irritability during her period. As estrogen deficiency starts in your mid-forties and estrogen or progesterone deficiencies begin, you may experience increased sugar cravings as well as moodiness, insomnia, and fatigue around your period.
Men who are experiencing andropause may also experience sugar cravings. Depression, decreased sexual function, low testosterone, high blood-pressure, obesity, diabetes or high cholesterol are all symptoms of testosterone deficiency. All of these issues can be helped by supplementing with prescription-strength bio-identical testosterone.
The standard blood tests for hormonal deficiencies are not accurate until the problem is severe. This can take years to detect. In chapter 4, you will learn why it is important to eliminate sugar addiction, and other problems that are caused by low testosterone, progesterone or estrogen.
You can find out what type of sugar addiction is yours by taking four quick quizzes. You can then use simple fixes to not only get rid of your sugar addiction, but also feel better.
Alternative Medicine Magazine published the article How to Break Your Sugar Addiction first.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the advantages of alternative and complementary medicine?
Complementary or alternative medicine (CAM), is a general term that covers medical practices that people use when they feel they don't get enough from allopathic medicines. These include herbal medicines and mind-body therapies, such as acupuncture or massage therapy, homeopathy (traditional Chinese medicine), chiropractic care, biofeedback and hypnosis. Many CAM practitioners use treatment methods that aren't part of conventional medicine's standard system of diagnosis and treatment. Many CAM treatments also include elements of traditional medicine. For example, some forms of acupuncture are performed with needles, while others involve acupressure or moxibustion with heat.
Some CAM therapies are effective in pain relief, stress management and relaxation. They may also improve your general sense of well-being and reduce fatigue. Some CAM therapies treat specific conditions, such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, and diabetes. Other CAM therapies might be more enjoyable.
There is no single definition of what constitutes CAM; however, most definitions include at least one of the following:
- A holistic approach that includes both the body, mind, spirit, environment, and everything in between
- The belief that the mind and body interact and influence each other
- An individual's belief that illness is due to an imbalance in his/her environment.
- A treatment that focuses on the whole person instead of just the symptoms
- Combination of Western science and Eastern philosophy
- Methods that treat mind, body, spirit in a holistic way
- Use natural products over synthetic chemicals
- The healing touch
- Mindfulness
- Meditation
- Acupuncture
- Yoga
- Herbal remedies
- Homeopathy
- Chiropractic care
- Massage therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Spiritual healing
- Biofeedback
- Nutritional counseling
- Energy healing
Certain CAM therapies have potential dangers, as well as their potential benefits. Incorrectly used, certain CAM therapies could cause serious harm and even death. Other therapies have potential side effects which must be considered against the perceived benefits. Before you make a decision about whether to try any CAM, it is important that you discuss the issues with your doctor.
Who uses holistic healing?
Holistic medicine is health care that treats the whole person as opposed to treating specific symptoms. It addresses both the mental as well as physical aspects of well being.
Holistic medicine is acupuncture as well massage therapy, chiropractic, nutritional counseling, Yoga, and other complementary therapies.
A holistic approach to medicine includes those with heart problems, cancer, diabetes, arthritis or depression.
Is holistic medicine safe?
Holistic remedies are safe, as they are not dangerous drugs, but natural remedies for people who have used them for centuries.
Many illnesses have been treated with them, including arthritis, chronic pain and asthma, high blood pressure, diabetes (heart disease), obesity, depression anxiety, stress, insomnia, infertility, and sexual dysfunction.
Millions of people all over the globe are using holistic medicine to treat various types of illnesses. These include homeopathy and acupuncture as well as chiropractic care, massage therapy, homeopathy, herbal treatments, biofeedback, yoga, meditation, hypnosis, nutrition counseling, physical exercise, and other complementary therapies. These therapies address the whole person instead of just the symptoms.
Statistics
- According to the World Health Organization, 80% of people use herbal medicine worldwide. (webmd.com)
- An assessment of conventional treatments found that 41.3% concluded positive or possibly positive effects, 20% concluded no effect, 8.1% concluded net harmful effects, and 21.3% concluded insufficient evidence. (en.wikipedia.org)
- In the 17% in which they disagreed, a third reader agreed with one of the initial readers to set a rating. (en.wikipedia.org)
- category.[111]Edzard Ernst characterized the evidence for many alternative techniques as weak, nonexistent, or negative and in 2011, published his estimate that about 7.4% were based on “sound evidence.” However, he believes that may be an overestimate. (en.wikipedia.org)
- A 15-year systematic review published in 2022 on the global acceptance and use of CAM among medical specialists found the overall acceptance of CAM at 52% and the overall use at 45%. (en.wikipedia.org)
External Links
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- PubMed: The rise and rise in complementary and alternative medicine: A sociological perspective
- Holistic medicine – PubMed
doi.org
nccih.nih.gov
cam.cancer.gov
How To
How do I deal with my girlfriend who trusts alternative medicine?
The internet advises those dealing with a loved one suffering from mental illness. The internet isn't able to provide much help for those who believe in alternative medicines.
It appears that there is a large divide between the two groups. There are two types of people: those who doubt conventional medicine and those who are open to its benefits.
What happens when someone believes there are other treatments for mental illness?
It's possible to feel frustrated and confused because you don’t know what to do. What should you say to your partner if he tells that he would prefer to see an acupuncturist to his doctor? Or when he suggests to you that he would prefer to eat gluten-free foods than take antidepressants.
It's important to ask questions. It can save you a lot of pain later.
But how do you ask these difficult questions without offending him? What if he claims he doesn't believe doctors? What if he says he doesn't trust doctors?
Or, what if she tells you that she believes antidepressants don’t work? Tell her that you don't believe she's right.
This is where the conversation becomes tricky. This could make her more upset if she points out that you are wrong.
Alternativly, you might suggest that she sees an psychiatrist. This might cause more problems that it solves. This could cause her to be upset at you. Or, she may believe you are trying control her life.
So what do you need to do?
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By: Dick Benson
Title: How to Break Your Sugar Addiction
Sourced From: alternativemedicine.com/lifestyle-2/how-to-break-your-sugar-addiction/
Published Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 16:54:56 +0000
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the advantages of alternative and complementary medicine?
Complementary or alternative medicine (CAM), is a general term that covers medical practices that people use when they feel they don't get enough from allopathic medicines. These include herbal medicines and mind-body therapies, such as acupuncture or massage therapy, homeopathy (traditional Chinese medicine), chiropractic care, biofeedback and hypnosis. Many CAM practitioners use treatment methods that aren't part of conventional medicine's standard system of diagnosis and treatment. Many CAM treatments also include elements of traditional medicine. For example, some forms of acupuncture are performed with needles, while others involve acupressure or moxibustion with heat.
Some CAM therapies are effective in pain relief, stress management and relaxation. They may also improve your general sense of well-being and reduce fatigue. Some CAM therapies treat specific conditions, such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, and diabetes. Other CAM therapies might be more enjoyable.
There is no single definition of what constitutes CAM; however, most definitions include at least one of the following:
- A holistic approach that includes both the body, mind, spirit, environment, and everything in between
- The belief that the mind and body interact and influence each other
- An individual's belief that illness is due to an imbalance in his/her environment.
- A treatment that focuses on the whole person instead of just the symptoms
- Combination of Western science and Eastern philosophy
- Methods that treat mind, body, spirit in a holistic way
- Use natural products over synthetic chemicals
- The healing touch
- Mindfulness
- Meditation
- Acupuncture
- Yoga
- Herbal remedies
- Homeopathy
- Chiropractic care
- Massage therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Spiritual healing
- Biofeedback
- Nutritional counseling
- Energy healing
Certain CAM therapies have potential dangers, as well as their potential benefits. Incorrectly used, certain CAM therapies could cause serious harm and even death. Other therapies have potential side effects which must be considered against the perceived benefits. Before you make a decision about whether to try any CAM, it is important that you discuss the issues with your doctor.
Who uses holistic healing?
Holistic medicine is health care that treats the whole person as opposed to treating specific symptoms. It addresses both the mental as well as physical aspects of well being.
Holistic medicine is acupuncture as well massage therapy, chiropractic, nutritional counseling, Yoga, and other complementary therapies.
A holistic approach to medicine includes those with heart problems, cancer, diabetes, arthritis or depression.
Is holistic medicine safe?
Holistic remedies are safe, as they are not dangerous drugs, but natural remedies for people who have used them for centuries.
Many illnesses have been treated with them, including arthritis, chronic pain and asthma, high blood pressure, diabetes (heart disease), obesity, depression anxiety, stress, insomnia, infertility, and sexual dysfunction.
Millions of people all over the globe are using holistic medicine to treat various types of illnesses. These include homeopathy and acupuncture as well as chiropractic care, massage therapy, homeopathy, herbal treatments, biofeedback, yoga, meditation, hypnosis, nutrition counseling, physical exercise, and other complementary therapies. These therapies address the whole person instead of just the symptoms.
Statistics
- According to the World Health Organization, 80% of people use herbal medicine worldwide. (webmd.com)
- An assessment of conventional treatments found that 41.3% concluded positive or possibly positive effects, 20% concluded no effect, 8.1% concluded net harmful effects, and 21.3% concluded insufficient evidence. (en.wikipedia.org)
- In the 17% in which they disagreed, a third reader agreed with one of the initial readers to set a rating. (en.wikipedia.org)
- category.[111]Edzard Ernst characterized the evidence for many alternative techniques as weak, nonexistent, or negative and in 2011, published his estimate that about 7.4% were based on “sound evidence.” However, he believes that may be an overestimate. (en.wikipedia.org)
- A 15-year systematic review published in 2022 on the global acceptance and use of CAM among medical specialists found the overall acceptance of CAM at 52% and the overall use at 45%. (en.wikipedia.org)
External Links
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- PubMed: The rise and rise in complementary and alternative medicine: A sociological perspective
- Holistic medicine – PubMed
doi.org
nccih.nih.gov
cam.cancer.gov
How To
How do I deal with my girlfriend who trusts alternative medicine?
The internet advises those dealing with a loved one suffering from mental illness. The internet isn't able to provide much help for those who believe in alternative medicines.
It appears that there is a large divide between the two groups. There are two types of people: those who doubt conventional medicine and those who are open to its benefits.
What happens when someone believes there are other treatments for mental illness?
It's possible to feel frustrated and confused because you don’t know what to do. What should you say to your partner if he tells that he would prefer to see an acupuncturist to his doctor? Or when he suggests to you that he would prefer to eat gluten-free foods than take antidepressants.
It's important to ask questions. It can save you a lot of pain later.
But how do you ask these difficult questions without offending him? What if he claims he doesn't believe doctors? What if he says he doesn't trust doctors?
Or, what if she tells you that she believes antidepressants don’t work? Tell her that you don't believe she's right.
This is where the conversation becomes tricky. This could make her more upset if she points out that you are wrong.
Alternativly, you might suggest that she sees an psychiatrist. This might cause more problems that it solves. This could cause her to be upset at you. Or, she may believe you are trying control her life.
So what do you need to do?
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