Do You Crave Sugar and Sweet Snacks?

Do you know that sugar can be good for you? Cravings sugar can be because your body needs some sugar. However, if the sugar has been processed improperly, it may taste like you expect it to, but some or most of the food value may be lost. Then you keep craving it because you did not get what you needed it for – why you craved it, and then it may to turn into an addiction.

Sugar helps us digest food, it has enzymes for this purpose; however most of the sugar on the market has been processed so thoroughly that the enzyme is gone or dead. My personal opinion is that without that enzyme to digest the sugar properly, we get an imbalance in our system, which may cause things like diabetes. If the missing enzyme were not enough, often bleach is used in the processing, which is poisonous to us; to be very clear, the sugar that we are most familiar with: white sugar is very bad for our health. I usually find good sugar in Asian supermarkets, and I have also found some in health stores. The best is in blocks, but of course sometimes we need it to be more granulated, and that is available as well.

I had a serious longstanding craving for peppermint patties before I learned this. I could easily eat a whole bag of peppermint patties, especially if I was upset, or lonely. Then I found out how much the right amount of good sugar can help digestion, and also peppermint is good for digestion, which is why mints are often offered at the end of a meal. Of course it only works if you have a good clean peppermint. You could chew peppermint leaves, or have peppermint tea, or use peppermint essential oil. I found that if I put a drop of peppermint essential oil on a piece of sugar that I cut from a bar of natural sugar from the Asian market, I only need a little and I am satisfied, my digestion is improved, and I feel much better! I could even dip it in good healthy chocolate – yumm! For more information, see my article on chocolate.

And what is the most exciting news is that when you ‘satisfy’ your craving with a moderate amount of sugar that is complete and processed cleanly, that moderate amount satisfies that craving! (If you have a long standing “addiction”, then you may need to work on that part of it, but you won’t have the true need type of craving left unsatisfied to complicate the issue and thwart your efforts!)

Nancy Jean Nason is an author and entrepreneur for WholiHealth and Off & Runnin, dedicated to Wholism in foods, for the body, body-mind-spirit, even in your business, as well as for the whole planet. For more about Nancy Jean, see www.WholiHealth.Blogspot.com