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Quitting junk food produces similar withdrawal-type symptoms as drug addiction:
If you plan to try and quit junk food, expect to suffer similar withdrawal-type symptoms—at least during the initial week—like addicts experience when they attempt to quit using drugs.
A new study by University of Michigan is believed to be the first of its kind to evaluate withdrawal symptoms people incur when they stop devouring highly processed foods, such as pastries, French fries and pizza.
Previous studies have focused on sugar withdrawal among animals and the literature regarding humans offered only anecdotal evidence, said Erica Schulte, the study's lead author and U-M psychology doctoral candidate.
What all researchers can agree upon is that the addictive qualities of tobacco, drugs or alcohol affect the brain similarly and cutting back can lead to negative side effects that can make it difficult to reduce intake. Anxiety, headaches, irritability and depression are some of those outcomes.
Understanding whether withdrawal may also occur with highly processed foods was an essential next step in evaluating whether these foods might be capable of triggering similar addictive processes.
Abstract: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666318306196 (DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2018.09.013
Pizza is not junk food! It's also not a pie.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday September 26 2018, @01:42PM (2 children)
The part of the chocolate bar that isn't keto friendly is the sugar. Substitute stevia and you're set.
It is difficult to get off carbs, though, because it is as addictive as the TFA says. The upside is that once you're off them, you feel much calmer. You never get hangry, because your body picks up right away and burns fat when need to. You might find that you save a lot of money at the grocery store, too, because there are almost no processed foods that are carb-free.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday September 26 2018, @04:08PM
The very mention of the word stevia makes me retch. I've had some pretty bad reactions to aspartame in the past and while I haven't made myself deathly ill with stevia, it seems to affect me in similar ways - I just avoid.
We save money at the grocery store by not buying products with gluten in them, then spend a fair bit (though not all) of that saved by buying a few GF alternatives like bread and pizza. Same principle - 90%+ of the processed foods are not GF, and so many GF products are disgusting to the point that you just don't even want them (and a few are quite good...)
My most recent "food processing" observation is corn. Somehow, our local TJ's can sell organically grown, in the husk ears of corn for $0.29 per ear, but if that same corn gets half-shelled and wrapped in a cellophane 4 pack (more corn than we typically want, BTW), it then costs $0.87 per ear. God help you when it gets "puffed" and sprinkled with salty oil (aka cheese) and costs upwards of $3/lb, though TJ's does have nice cheap bulk tortilla chips @ 2lbs for $3.50.
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(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday September 27 2018, @12:02AM
Well, I'm not going to go keto (most likely) but I already do 16/8 IF and just picked up some MCT oil and some grass-fed butter. Going to see how substituting breakfast with a biiiiiig cup of bulletproof coffee (or maybe tea) works out for a while. Only going to use 1T of each, but put it into 32oz of fluid, because I don't really like creamy textures much.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...