Overcoming Food Addiction to Sugar, Junk Food. Stop Binge Eating and Bad Emotional Eating Habits: Food Addiction

By Anthea Peries

Overcoming Food Addiction to Sugar and Junk Food Stop Binge Eating and Bad Emotional Eating Habits (2 manuscripts in 1)

 

ABOUT THIS BOOK:

If you are addicted to food and eating all the time then this book is for you.

Do you crave sugar all the time?

Want to eat junk food and cannot stop binge eating?

Eat when you are highly emotional and stressed out?

 

The book includes:

BOOK1
FOOD ADDICTION
Overcoming your Addiction to Sugar, Junk Food, and Binge Eating (Eating Disorders, Emotional Eating)

and,

 

BOOK2
EMOTIONAL EATING:
Stop Emotional Eating & Develop Intuitive Eating Habits to Keep Your Weight Down.

 

This book provides great value. 

READ THIS BOOK NOW. 

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Anthea Peries
• Release date: Jul 10, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386591979

Anthea Peries

 Anthea Peries BSc (Hons) is a published author, she completed her undergraduate studies in several branches of the sciences including Biology, Neurology, Brain and Behaviour and Child Development. A former graduate member of the British Psychological Society, she has experience in counselling and is a former senior management executive. Born in London, Anthea enjoys fine cuisine, writing, and has travelled the world.

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Food Addiction

Overcoming your Addiction to Sugar, Junk Food, and Binge Eating (Eating Disorders, Emotional Eating)

Anthea Peries

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Why I Wrote This Book

I WROTE THIS BOOK BECAUSE of my own experiences with food addiction, as well as because of the vast amount of new information that has come out on the topics of food addiction and the relationship between our gut-brain biome. I felt compelled and inspired to share this information with others, and hope it benefits you in some way.

We live in a time where the world is at our fingertips, yet we still have trouble finding solutions to our own internal struggles and body issues. From every angle, both internal and external, we are in a constant state of fighting for balance, for harmony within ourselves.

I wrote this book in the hopes that the information inside helps you overcome your own challenges with food addiction and overeating. This isn’t a recipe book, or a list foods you should and shouldn’t eat. This is your guide to understanding the psychological and scientific aspects of food addiction, and a roadmap to recovery.

Why You Should Read This Book

IF YOU’RE SOMEONE WHO struggles with overeating, binge eating on unhealthy and junk foods, or feel addicted to sugar, this book is for you. If you’re a friend or a family member trying to understand food addiction and how you can help be supportive for those you love, this book is for you too.

In fact, anyone who wants a more compassionate view towards those who may struggle with things they don’t understand surrounding food addiction, should read this book. We briefly cover the science and psychology behind food addiction, and discuss different proven methods for overcoming and beating the addiction to unhealthy junk food, and overeating.

Chapter 1. Understanding Food Addiction: The Gut-Brain Connection

TWENTY YEARS AGO, LITTLE was understood about the nature of food addiction, the interaction between our gut microbiome and our brain, and the reasons why so many of us struggled with eating in a healthy and balanced way.

Within the last five years, tremendous strides have been made towards our understanding of this balance, and we’ve come to some startlingly simple answers to a seemingly complex problem.

What is food addiction?

FOOD ADDICTION, WHEN broken down in its simplest form, is feeling or being compelled to consume food in an unhealthy or unnatural way.

Involving neurotransmitters within the brain, as well as complex bacteria in the gut, food addiction can take many forms, as it is a biochemical, as well as a sociological response, to the things we put into our bodies.

While this book is going to focus specifically on the addiction to sugar, junk food, binge eating, and general overeating, there is an entire spectrum of food addict eating disorders. Understand that the root cause of these issues still surrounds the same principle: That the foods we eat and the prescription medicines we consume are what create the conditions necessary for food addiction.

How does it work?

PUT SIMPLY, THE CONNECTION between the gut and the brain functions as a two-way street: the gut microbes create neuroactive compounds, such as neurotransmitters and metabolites, which act on the brain, and the brain reacts to gastrointestinal functions which help shape the guts microbial makeup. This relationship can be affected by the types of foods and medicines we put into our body.

When it comes to being addicted to sugar, junk food, or overeating, we know that processed foods and foods high in sugar have a more powerful effect on the reward centers in the brain. This is in part due to our cultural conditioning; learning that candy, treats, and indulgent foods are rewards for doing a good job or as a treat for oneself, as well as the triggering of dopamine which hijacks the biochemistry of the brain.

Many studies have been performed which support the notion that prebiotics and probiotics can have a healing, personality-shifting effect on our gut and mind. Using mainly mice, researchers at both McMaster University in Ontario and the Kyushu University in Japan discovered that by having a clean gut microbiome, they could induce healthy hormone response by providing a bacterium call Bifidobacterium infantis.

A large amount of research has been done surrounding sugar, and the history on its negative effects on our body and mind are heavily recorded. From weight gain, heart disease, to cancer and increased blood pressure; part of the issue is that sugar is put in most everything we consume, with artificial varieties being used as a substitute for cost effectiveness, everywhere.

The cycle perpetuates itself throughout all of this by regularly setting off your nervous system with false triggers from synthetic and unhealthy foods, causing you to desire these foods more, as they are comforting. Breaking this cycle is very difficult, and until recently, there have been all sorts of diets, home remedies, and philosophical approaches to overcoming the addiction to different foods.

Fortunately, science is getting closer and closer to having a more complete understanding of food addiction and binge eating. We know now that avoiding the different types of foods that cause the physical interactions in our bodies, is the first and most important step in overcoming challenges with food. 

Now that we’ve covered the physical side of food addiction, it’s time to understand what goes on psychologically as a response to these issues, and when to determine when your external situation is causing you to binge eat or overeat, or if your internal chemistry is causing you to desire these types of foods. Usually, it’s both.

Chapter 2. Psychological addiction

OFTENTIMES, MAKING sense of an issue, which seems very real and emotionally personal, is difficult