Removing packaged and
sugary foods from the diet will eventually break the «triggers» for sweet foods and allow the taste buds to be stimulated by other flavours.
Not exact matches
At this point, I have incorporated a few
sugary things back, but I've just about eliminated all processed sugar
from my
diet, other than what occurs naturally in
foods.
Remove any
sugary drinks and
foods from your
diet immediately (this should be first on your list of changes to make, and if that is all you do, you will have achieved a lot.)
If you didn't already have enough reasons to eliminate
sugary drinks and
foods with added sugars
from your
diet, here's another one.
As extreme as that may sound, it can be a healthy, low - glycemic
diet, especially at a time when so many people are in ill health
from eating grain - based
sugary foods made with overly processed fats and oils.
Challenge yourself: Take a break
from all the sugar free
foods you eat and drink for as little as 2 weeks (including
diet drinks, sugar free yogurt and desserts, and even sugar free gum, etc., etc.) and notice how much of a difference it makes on your overall desire for sweets and
sugary foods
If anything, removing gluten
from your
diet will open your eyes to all of the packaged, processed,
sugary, starchy
foods that so many of us eat on a daily basis.
Unfortunately over time, no matter how many hours you spend at the gym pounding away on the treadmill or how many detox
diets you go on, all those greasy meals
from food carts, decadent business lunches and
sugary vending machine snacks will not only affect your waistline but your quality of life.
Many diabetes cases result not just
from poor
diet with high fats and
sugary foods, but also due to stress and adrenal overload not being addressed and poor liver or pancreatic function.
Modern life bombards us with stressors, the most common being ongoing insulin surges
from sugary, high - carb
diets, immune aggravation
from food intolerances, chronic gut infections (too much bad bacteria or parasites), hormonal imbalances, lack of sleep, and of course our hectic, information - overloaded lifestyles.
A low - carb
diet asks you to eliminate processed and
sugary foods and get your carbs
from nutritious vegetables, fruit, and dairy.
The only thing you need to do in this
diet is to eliminate
sugary and starchy
foods from your
diet, especially during the first phase.
The main lifestyle factors that can trigger it are high consumption of
sugary snacks, carbohydrates, lack of probiotic
food in the
diet and prebiotics
from raw vegetables and fruits.