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Food Can Be Literally Addictive, New Evidence Suggests
(www.scientificamerican.com)
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I gave up alcohol a year ago but my soda habit is off the charts. 😔
Interesting. I didn’t have a hard time giving up food, I quit about three years ago, but I drink constantly
Wait... what do you mean by "giving up food" exactly? You got me worried dawg!
They’re saying food is addictive. I’m here to tell you otherwise. I went cold turkey years ago. Big Food wants you to believe you “need” food. Just like Big Tobacco wants you to “need” cigarettes. Phooey, I say
What helped me drink a lot less soda was to begin looking at the sugar content on everything. A can has 75% of your daily recommended max intake, a bottle has 125%. Combined with the amount of sugar in a lot of other things, I’m pretty sure many Americans consume like double the amount of sugar they should pretty often. Plus, the 50 grams they recommend is still a lot of sugar and you shouldn’t be even consuming that much
For me, getting soda on cans made a huge difference - the parent didn’t estimate the sugar content if a 2l bottle. Anyhow having cans both let’s me off the hook for having one, keeps me from rationalizing that I don’t want to waste it by letting it get flat, and I find it easier to limit myself to only one per day
(Plus it’s diet. I’m not sure that’s entirely better so still worth limiting, but it’s not sugar, or empty calories)
Artificial sweetener is actually worse for you than sugar. Just drink normal soda. If you’re drinking soda daily, try to reduce that to 3 or less a week
That's okay bud, I'm proud of you! :)
Getting a seltzer maker satisfied a lot of the desire for soda for me. Mostly I want cold, wet fizz.