I am a sugar senstive person!!

I took myself out yesterday to buy "Sugar Blues" the first book that blew the lid off the sugar lie in 1975, by William Dufty. I love this book, and I couldn't find my copy, so off I went. I was curious to see how many other anti-sugar books there were, and, surprisingly, given the staggering number of books on health, nutrition, and weight loss, there are very very few. Hmmm.

But all you need is one gem, and there, next to the classic "Sugar Blues" I picked up "The Sugar Addict's Total Recovery Program" and have been reading it straight since yesterday. I am so excited about this book. I will be talking about it for quite a few posts I am sure. But first, a beginning quote from "Sugar Blues": "The brain is the most sensitive organ in the body. The difference between feeling up or down, sane or insane, calm or freaked out, inspired or depressed, depends in large measure on what we put in our mouth."

What has me so excited about "The Sugar Addict's Total Recovery Program", by Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D, is that she got her Ph.D. in the field of nutritional addiction. She was the FIRST to do this, and while she has treated alcoholics and heroin addicts successfully through nutrition, she fully recognizes sugar addicts as addicts. This is a chemical reaction that some people are sensitive to. I am one of them!!!

I have taken countless puffs of cigarettes from friends over my lifetime, and I have never become a smoker. I remain physically and emotionally indifferent to tobacco. It has no power over me, yet many I know became addicted at the first cigarette. Same with alcohol. I have drunk or not my entire life as I wished, and walked away every time, and I am not an alcoholic, depite a history of it in my family. I just don't have the "gene".

But sugar. Sugar is another story, for me. I started having recurring dreams of swimming in cake batter with my mouth wide open when I was three or four. I started baking when I was seven so I could eat some of the batter or dough unsupervised, and I always know the best places for bread or pastries of the highest quality within weeks of moving anywhere. I have jokingly called myself a sugar addict for years, but what is really exciting, what I have learned from this book, is that this is correct! Like any addiction, it is not a question of laziness or discipline; it is a question of balancing my brain chemistry!!!

Much more on this. But now I must go eat a potato with its skin, and get a good night's sleep. Part of the program. Potatos not Prozac! Sleep well everybody.