What psychiatrists say: what are cravings?

How can you use your brain to beat a craving?



Psychiatrists say we need will power, various practices and a drug or two ( of course).

Abstinence is the answer.

Abstinence makes the heart grow stronger.

Try three weeks without any tiny trace of wheat, sugar, cows milk and potatoes and see what happens!

Go on.... have a go.  You won't get past the third day, because the food addictions that you say you haven't got will stop you in your tracks and send you back to addictive eating again.

But I can show you how, guide you through it and help you when you break down. It works, I know.

Sugar is GOOD for you, at least its NOT BAD!

This article encourages us to eat sugar (sigh)

Myth #2

Sugar is bad for you
The truth


A panel of world health experts recently reviewed the scientific evidence and concluded that a high sugar intake is not related to the development of heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure or cancer.
Sugar was also not connected to behavioural problems like hyperactivity in children. As well as this, the panel did emphasise the beneficial role that carbohydrates like sugars play in health.

Its weight stigma awareness week!

A: Weight stigma is judgment about a person’s character, personality, lifestyle, work ethic and other features based on their weight, and it has many faces.  It’s seen in the insults, teasing, name-calling, and other hurtful language directed at someone because of their size.

It’s seen in the stereotypical notions that fat people are lazy and weak-willed, which leads to discrimination and prejudice in the workplace and elsewhere.  It’s seen in the bullying of a larger kid on the playground as well as a larger adult who is shamed in a physician’s office.

It’s seen in the lack of accommodations for larger people, such as medical equipment or inadequately-sized public seating such as on airplanes.  It essentially derives from the patently false notion that people should all be within a certain size range and that fat people cannot be healthy.

Addicts are always seen as lazy and weak willed. Food addicts are seen as greedy lazy and weak willed.

Its no good being aware of the stigma; no good being nice to food addicts while they are lost in their addiction. The way to help any food addict is to address the addiction head on. And the people most resistant to that idea are the food addicts themselves, for they find the idea of being called a food addict insulting.  (Some of them do, anyhow, but not all: the sensible ones recognise their food problem for what it is.)

Food addicts are choosing to be addicted to their food. I have been working hard for over 20 years to try and discover why - I am close to an answer and it's all to do with your prenatal experience. 

More on another occasion about this! In the meantime, enjoy Weight Stigma Awareness Week!

Sugar addiction - it's official!

Here is the book.

Despite the endless health campaigns to encourage us to cut back, sugar still makes up a third of our calorie intake.
This is deeply worrying, say experts, who are increasingly concerned that our bodies were not designed to take such a sugar overload, and fear it is contributing to many modern ills, including diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
The problem is that sugar is highly addictive, as study after study has shown. Just last week researchers at Yale University revealed that dramatic falls in blood sugar, which occur after eating ‘bad’ carbohydrates such as sweets and biscuits, affect the part of the brain controlling impulse.