Quote: (11-01-2014 01:45 AM)VincentVinturi Wrote:
Quote: (10-29-2014 09:56 PM)kosko Wrote:
Eat dates. They are gods candy and will curb your sweet cravings since they will fill you up and you will get bored of them after a handful or two. It will hit your sugar points but not make you binge out.
Dates are ridiculously sweet. The point is to eat something with little to no sugar to kill the craving, not to eat a ton of sugar.
That is the point. They are so sweet your sugar cravings will shut down within 10-20 mins. You will never binge on them as they are way too sweet and fiberous. You will get sick of eating them after a few.
You get off sugar from purging it from your pallete which takes time (a year at least). "Snacking" isnt a good way to squash it, because snacking means you are dehydrated or lacking in micronitruients. When your at a level of sustenence you dont crave "snacks". So snacking on almonds for example accomplishes nothing as it further reinforces snacking, and does not address that your pallete, still favorable to sugar, is still lurking around. Unless you rid it from your diet almost 100% your pallete and brain won't clense that dominate taste portion out.
What people in the west do is take away the calories via sweeteners which do even more damage since your body has nothing to link the sugar to in regards to marco and micro nutrients and actually then makes you end up craving more to over compensate.
I don't crave sugar much at all because it was never around me as a child. Soda makes me gag because its so sweet for example, I haven't ate candy like gummies I'm years, milk chocolate tastes like shit to me. I'd rather have the dark stuff that makes my taste buds pucker from the bitterness. If anybody can talk on how to not like sugar its me because I don't mess with the stuff. I went through a faze as a kid where I binged on sweets as a rebellion stage from not having it as a kid, got sick of that shit and haven't touched it since.
Most people whom like sweets hate dates because it isn't a processed and more enjoyable form of sugar. You have to work chewing them down only to be rewarded with a dense earthy off the chart sweet taste, not the fake processed sweet taste we are used to.
If your body wants sugar give it the most sweet natural thing on the planet and it will run away from that craving damn quick.
Its like taking a shot of moonshine when you want a drink. You won't want anymore after that uppercut of alcahol.
Even better anology is thinking of dates as a fat chic. More women is better right? No. To much of a good thing makes us humans repulsed. The body is programmed to not like to much of anything. So throwing a nuclear bomb on your sweet receptors may actually make you hate sugar/sweets in the long run.
Dates have a interesting history. And I'm sorry its pure Western ignorance on them which causes hate. They are one of the most lauded and holy foods which defy common logic. Dates have more sugar in then processed table sugar via GI yet they don't raise blood sugar.
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"Nutrition Journal" reports a study in which date consumption was tested on diabetics. The study shows that while dates contain high amounts of natural sugars, they are actually a low-glycemic index food and did not significantly raise blood sugar levels after they were eaten.
Next they are able to digest easily even though they are very fiberous, they also contain a abundance of micro nutrients. Muslims favor them for breaking fast as they are easy on the system, it has 1000s of years of assurance towards health.
But this just follows what nature does further in making sweets hard to come by. Commercial sugars are extracted from extremely tough forage like sugar cane, or tough sugar beets, you can't snack on either of those two as your teeth would break off. So would it not make sense sense to give your body the most potent natural form of sugar if its craving it? Since what your not craving is real sugar, but its chemical and processed alternatives give it the real thing via dates and I can assure you won't crave sugar much after as your body will immediately respond to it and ditch the craving.
Because if this was just about simple sugar fixes one could just eat fruit, but I know that dosnt hit the spot for sugar fans so its the simple issue of having taste recpetors to much in love with fake processed sugar than the real stuff in nature.