Why You Can’t Kick Your Candy Habit

 

Every adult's greatest nightmare for Halloween is to witness a swarm of young ghouls and goblins descend on your neighbor's home—while completely ignoring your own. Now, a week later, you've accumulated an enormous amount of leftover sweets and are powerless to resist its allure. But before you accuse yourself of a complete lack of self-control, consider the possibility that these sweets have chemically hooked you.

 

Professor Ashley Gearhardt of the University of Michigan's psychology department said that no one is overindulging on spinach or broccoli. Her co-creation of Yale University's Food Addiction Scale adds to a growing corpus of research that places "food" — or the processed chemicals that pass for food these days — in the same category as narcotics as substances of addiction.buy online candies on Candyville

 

Is it possible to become addicted to a little chocolate bar? Sugar, salt, and fat are all to blame. As Gearhardt points out, our bodies haven't developed to deal with this triple threat. Back when sugar was only found in fruit and was guarded by bees, salt was just a basic seasoning, and fat was a nutrient that had to be sought or foraged long before Mrs. Fields started hawking her cookies in malls. Because of this, processed meals tend to include all three of these ingredients, but they're missing the protein, fibre, and water that your body needs to metabolise them properly.