HELP I’m a Junk Food Addict
or at least I was
Food manufacturers do not lie awake at night wondering how to make their food more nutritious and you more healthy.
Instead, they are constantly looking for ways to make their products more cheaply, to sell them at a higher price and to get you to buy more. They are very aware that if they don’t, their competitors will!
In a recent survey (2007) 46% of Britons said they could not give up eating junk food.
This is not at all surprising since:
•It is very difficult now in the UK to find food which is not junk.
•Junk food can be found on demand almost anywhere.
•Junk food is addictive.
We are bombarded with advertising images of slim, healthy, happy people eating junk
In his film “Supersize Me”, Morgan Spurlock discovers that after three weeks of eating three meals a day from McDonalds, he is gaining weight rapidly and feeling very unwell. Strangely, when he eats another junk food meal, he actually feels slightly better for a short while until the discomfort returns. This is a typical addiction response.
Since there is more junk food than nutritious food available in the Western world right now, millions of people are feeling just like Morgan Spurlock every day, year on year. After a while, this feeling of permanent discomfort, alleviated only by the next junk ‘hit’ becomes accepted as normal.
Doctors’ surgeries are full of people who have nothing obviously wrong with them but just don’t feel well. Eventually, their grumbling symptoms develop into something more serious. Medications are prescribed to suppress the symptoms and so manage (but not cure) what will be a life long problem. Eventually, further medications are prescribed to suppress the side effects of the first set of medications. This is how the descent into permanent ill health begins.
You probably know already that junk food is lacking in most of the nutrients that we need and loaded with the fat, simple sugars, white flour and artificial colours and additives that we don’t need.
This causes an Addiction Response in several ways:
1) The body becomes depleted in essential nutrients and sends ‘feed me’ signals to the brain. You may find yourself standing in front of an open fridge door with that feeling that you want something, but “What is it?” Eventually, you give up and just grab a hit of whatever it is that will suppress your appetite for half an hour or so – chocolate, biscuits, ice cream, sweets, a cigarette or alcohol. All of them will switch that craving off, but only for a while. Your body still hasn’t got what it really needed, so the craving will return!
2) The sugar in junk food kills off the friendly bacteria in the intestines, which encourages fungal growth. Damaged intestines are much less efficient at absorbing nutrients, so the body becomes even more depleted.
3) Healthy food contains a mix of fibres which gently ‘scrub out’ the intestines as they passes through, winkling out fungal parasites and helping movement, but junk food is very low in fibre. The intestines become more damaged and constipation causes toxins to be reabsorbed into the body. Cases have been recorded of children becoming so constipated on junk that they end up vomiting faeces.
4) Junk is high in simple sugars. In many cases, sugar is actually the main ingredient. Sugar is everywhere and in everything. Junk food manufacturers add sugar to savoury foods as well as
sweet foods. It’s cheap and it’s addictive.
For more detail, consult my Diabetes page, but briefly, this is what happens:
Our bodies are not evolved to cope with simple sugars in any quantity. When we eat junk, we are suddenly bombarded with sugar. The body has to act fast to restore balance and uses insulin to turn this unnecessary sugar into fat. This sudden reaction causes the blood sugar level to dip and we feel tired and irritable. When we get another sugar hit, the blood sugar level suddenly rises and we feel better. We may even feel slightly giddy for a while as the blood sugar level becomes dangerously high. Soon though, that excess sugar is converted into fat, the blood sugar level dips again, and we feel as bad as before.
What is the answer?
Although many junk food addicts would like to quit, when they try ‘to be good’ they are often easily defeated by their cravings and low blood sugar discomfort.
I found the Herbalife products worked for me because they deliver a broad and complete range of nutrients which immediately addresses the nutritional depletion. Low glycaemic carbohydrates stabilise the blood sugar level and a range of fibres, herbs and friendly bacteria enable the intestines to absorb nutrients efficiently.
The body stops sending “I feel like a wreck - feed me” signals and starts sending “I’m comfortable” signals instead. The body soon begins to rediscover it’s natural ability to know what it wants. Junk food flavours now feel like a deafening din. You rediscover exquisite subtleties of flavour that you had forgotten.
Having escaped from junk food dependence myself and having lived happily and easily for 20 years without it, I can help you do the same. Using the Herbalife nutrition products, you will feel so well and at ease with yourself. I will support you throughout and also help you to make smart food choices which are easy, convenient and simple to do.
Disclaimer: Herbalife products are not drugs or medicines.
They are officially registered in over 70 countries as food products.
As they are foods, it is safe to use them alongside any medication.
Do not reduce any medication without the agreement of your doctor.
If he sees your condition improve, he will be happy to oblige.
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because my sponsor told me I should lead by example.
After a week, I quit my 25 cigarettes a day habit.
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- Fatima
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I needed 10 cups of coffee and a bottle of wine a day just to function. I was eating junk and thought I knew it all. When friends suggested I might have a problem I figured they were the problem. I started using the Herbalife nutrition products because I wanted to lose a bit of weight and to my surprise, began to feel so much more alive and started sleeping better. After a couple of days, I poured my second cup of coffee down the sink. I just didn’t feel like it. My bottle of wine a day soon turned into a couple of glasses at the weekend. My tastes began to change. I soon found I actually enjoyed healthier food and found myself wanting it. I found myself looking at junk and thinking, “How did I stomach that stuff?” - Christine
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