Are you addicted to SUGAR?
- Thread starter Danoz
- Start date
A
Amaris
Guest
It does involve chocolate and cinnamon, as I have made my own, and have approximated the taste rather closely.
Indeed it is!
Your assimilation into the Skyline chili fold will be most gratifying.
Skyline Chili is the only, and I do mean ONLY, reason I will ever walk into any place and ask for a three-way. 
A
Amaris
Guest
Skyline Chili is the only, and I do mean ONLY, reason I will ever walk into any place and ask for a three-way.
I want to know where you're going where you can walk in and ask for a three way that doesn't involved chili, or a light bulb!
I've been doing the same. I was really eating too much of it -- lots of processed foods, fast food, takeout at night, etc. -- I really cut out the white bread (which I absolutely love) and that's made a big difference.
I found just exercising more did wonders... of course, that was after my diet crashed in July. I got something called epiploic appendagitis and it's acted like a stomach staple! I've lost over thirty pounds and intend to continue!
Medical condition. Epiploic appendagitis is a condition where one of the little fat tendrils in your belly that protects your intestines twists around itself, rather like a skin tag. It is very, very painful when it hits. I thought at first I'd pulled a muscle, but it got to the point I couldn't sit up comfortably. So I went to the ER and they ended up doping me up and giving me a prescription for Vicodin. That stuff worked amazingly. Takes at least a couple of weeks to clear up. But the first few days after it happened, all I could handle was fruit smoothies! I would get sick with anything solid or too heavy.
It's two months later and my appetite as I knew it is no longer a problem. My doctor was amazed when I came in in August with my weight down as much as it was. And I was able to add swimming and an exercise bike to my activities. I can see my doctor for my physical with a clear conscience.
It's two months later and my appetite as I knew it is no longer a problem. My doctor was amazed when I came in in August with my weight down as much as it was. And I was able to add swimming and an exercise bike to my activities. I can see my doctor for my physical with a clear conscience.
Stumbled across this today: more evidence that sugar is not, in fact, addictive. Yes, people can have problematic behavioral issues related to sugar and eating, but this is not addiction. It does not resemble drug addiction. That doesn't make it any easier to deal with, nor does it mean people who have trouble maintaining healthy eating habits are just lazy and gluttonous, but they're not addicted.
Man, that this "documentary" is claiming that sugar and cocaine have the same effects on the brain and trying to pass of that fMRI as evidence of such effects is pissing me off right now.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763414002140
Man, that this "documentary" is claiming that sugar and cocaine have the same effects on the brain and trying to pass of that fMRI as evidence of such effects is pissing me off right now.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763414002140
^ Thanks for posting that, TSQ. Very interesting.
^No problem. I just really hate this persistent and deliberate misinformation regarding science for the promotion of ideologies. No matter how much I agree that promoting healthful behaviors is a worthy goal, lying to do so is not right. It's been long known that the sugar-as-an-addictive-substance hypothesis was unsubstantiated, and the evidence just keeps building. And yet here they are passing of a brain scan as evidence that it affects the brain just like cocaine, when anyone with even a basic amount of education in neuroscience would see that it's bullshit.
The evidence is really just telling us we need to ban hugs.
HUGS affect your brain in the same way as COCAINE! I can prove it with my scienceing!
A
Amaris
Guest
Hugs: The gateway drug.
In my childhood years, I had a sweet tooth like most other kids. One thing I never liked, though, were sugary breakfast cereals. I still can't stomach anything sweet before noon. Maybe it's a moral thing -- like drinking alcohol before 5 p.m.
As an adult, I find most cookies, snack cakes and candy to be overpoweringly sweet and I seldom eat them.
But then, most commercial peanut butter has sugar in it. Yecch. Peanut butter isn't supposed to be sweet, it's supposed to taste like peanuts!
I only buy natural-style peanut butter -- the kind you have to stir and refrigerate to keep the oil from separating. Just peanuts and a bit of salt. No freakin' sugar!
As an adult, I find most cookies, snack cakes and candy to be overpoweringly sweet and I seldom eat them.
Horse puckey. I eat a McDonald's burger maybe once a month. I don't make a steady diet of the stuff. Everything is OK in moderation. As far as I'm concerned, if it contains proteins, carbohydrates and lipids that my body can assimilate, it qualifies as food.
Not an idiot, necessarily, but they probably have an agenda.
Sweet chili?
But then, most commercial peanut butter has sugar in it. Yecch. Peanut butter isn't supposed to be sweet, it's supposed to taste like peanuts!
I only buy natural-style peanut butter -- the kind you have to stir and refrigerate to keep the oil from separating. Just peanuts and a bit of salt. No freakin' sugar!
I might as well face it -- I'm addicted to love.
Why I said "most likely." It's either idiot or agenda, I guess the ratio is moot.
Sweet chili?
Yep. I mean, it doesn't taste like you're eating sugar or anything like that (if you didn't already know, you'd just think it's an...interesting taste), but Greek recipes often make use of chocolate and cinnamon, and this is one of those. And trust me, it's delicious.
