
Because it’s Good!!! (Just Kidding)
When I eat sugar, my body breaks it down into fructose and glucose. Glucose is naturally found in my body, as well as in every other living thing. Fructose, on the other hand, is not produced by my body. All of the fructose that I take in has to be processed, by my liver. If my liver is overloaded, it turns excess fructose into fat.
We are given many reasons for our sugar cravings: pleasure-seeking brain circuits, intestinal parasites, mineral deficiencies, malnutrition, habitual behavior, unbalanced diets, too much salt, buried emotional issues, lack of sleep, stress…. and my favorite…

Lack of discipline.
We are not at a loss for reasons for our addiction to sugar, yet knowing isn’t enough to change us or our behavior. If knowing was enough we would all be winning gold medals and gold stars in every area of our life. If anything, knowing just makes it feel worse… we know better so why aren’t we doing better? Knowing becomes just another reason for us to feel bad about ourselves.
The next step to knowing is to try and do something about it.
We take matters into our own hands and attempt to turn our sugar-loving switch from on to off. Just when we feel we’re making progress something happens to throw us off. Then we’re on a mission to hunt down any sugar we can find.
When we decide to target our sugar dependency, we attack the sugar itself, we clear the pantry, empty the house of all products and declare sugar the enemy. And this is fine… except it doesn’t work. When we create an action plan like this, we’re a few steps too far ahead and facing the wrong direction. We don’t address what’s really happening.
The Key:
Target the true problem, not the side-effect of the problem. And sugar cravings are the side-effect, they’re the symptom of the real problem, and treating symptoms never makes the problem resolve. The only way to create true, long- standing change is to address the root cause…. otherwise you’re just wasting your time and prepping yourself for another future sugar-binge.
Is Sugar Killing Us? from AAK on Vimeo.