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Home | Health & Fitness | Weight Loss Did you know that the sweet taste of sugar and artificial sweeteners is more addictive than cocaine? I will not be surprised to learn that other tastes are just as addictive - it's part of our make-up. Our ancestors learned to seek out sweet foods for high energy, high flavor foods for nutrition and salty foods because salt was scarce. All these tastes give us pleasurable feelings, so guess what the processed food manufacturers do? They load their 'foods' with those flavours and take out the nutritional value, so we are left seeking the nutrition and eating more of their junk in an attempt to find it. The multi-national food producers have grown fat in the last few decades - along with the population. Their in-house boffins have invented all kinds of chemicals to stabilise, preserve, color and enhance the taste of nutritionally valueless junk food. We are fooled by the look and taste into thinking it's nutritious and buy it in ever increasing amounts. By clever marketing, a bean once thought to be too poisonous to eat has now become the number one 'health' food, even though it is known to be carcinogenic. Cheaply produced emulsions of vegetable oils and water are sold as a healthy alternative to butter. If it's low-fat, low sugar, anti-cholesterol, etc, it's marketed as a healthy alternative. Major food and drugs companies work in harmony to ensure maximum profits for both. The administration of drugs is geared more to the protection of the companies' profits than to public safety. Obesity or illness resulting from adverse reaction to chemicals in our food can always be treated with the latest drug - whose side effects can be treated with another. A healthy population offers little profit to either the food or drugs manufacturers. No wonder we have an obesity epidemic. 90% of the American food budget is spent on processed food. The manufacturers have learned that as long as it tastes good they can sell us practically anything because we are addicted to taste. The result is that, a short time after eating one of their tasty, calorie-filled, but nutritionally valueless meals, we feel hungry and seek out another. Have you experienced the diet yo-yo? You get your weight down, then suddenly put it all back on. Dieting is not just about willpower, that's a recipe for failure. The Caveman diet is much more than just a diet, more a new, healthier lifestyle. To do that it's essential to get off those addictive foods and start eating natural products. Diet programs that allow you to have reward days are only setting you up for failure. Just the same as giving up smoking, it only takes one cigarette to get you started again. It's time for a fresh start. Article Source: http://www.articlewheel.com
Are there some things you just can't resist? Do you have a problem around food? The Caveman Diet can solve your diet addiction. Stuart Hill authors the Caveman Diet and other lifestyle websites. He lives in Shetland, UK.
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