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Sugar is one of my few vices. I can get addicted to it fairly easy, and it’s really hard for me to kick the habit even when I try. When I cut it out of my diet
by moksly 7y ago
Sugar is one of my few vices. I can get addicted to it fairly easy, and it’s really hard for me to kick the habit even when I try. When I cut it out of my diet I get to go through a few days of withdrawals where I have no energy, lots of craving, much higher appetite and a general level of annoyedness. After this I get periods of higher quality life with less sick days. Once I fall back in, I don’t even like the taste of sugary things for the first few days.
This is completely anecdotal, but my sugar habits are similar to drug-addicts, and while sugar certainly isn’t drugs it’s not healthy for me either. It’s also the only substance in my regular diet that affects me this way.
- baal80spam 7y ago> sugar certainly isn’t drugs I guess it depends on the definition of a 'drug'?
- dekken_ 7y ago> and while sugar certainly isn’t drugs It is. Like coffee is.
- ndzig 7y agoWhat's a drug? If sugar causes addiction, withdrawal, and it's unhealthy, then it definitely is a drug.
- jesssse 7y agoDrugs are nutritionless. Sugar is food.
- Broken_Hippo 7y agoIt is a drug much like... say, broccoli is a drug. Milk before bedtime is a drug. Running is a drug. It is a drug in the same sense that anything can cause addiction and withdrawal or be unhealthy. Caffeine is, by itself, a drug in a different sense. It causes a slight addiction and can cause slight withdrawal. It isn't all that unhealthy in itself, however, especially not in the amounts we find naturally in foods. It becomes more of an issue if one is taking caffeine pills and other such things. Eating unhealthily might be more unhealthy, honestly - even though overall, having an unhealthy diet isn't a drug.
- cerberusss 7y agoNah, that can't be true. Suppose you eat either broccoli or a sugary snack every day at 4 PM. Then I bet that habit is definitely harder to stop if it's a sugary snack.
- dtwest 7y ago"It is a drug in the same sense that anything can cause addiction and withdrawal or be unhealthy. Caffeine is, by itself, a drug in a different sense. It causes a slight addiction and can cause slight withdrawal." This seems like a drug in the same sense, can you clarify? Rather than making stuff up, here's dictionary definition of drug: a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body. As a user of both sugar and broccoli I can anecdotally attest that they do not have the same physiological effect on my body.