There are people in this world who cannot imagine their life without sweets.. For them, a meal is incomplete if it does not end with a cup of tea or coffee with chocolate or cake.. And a good day (just like a bad one) is unimaginable without a piece of cake or cookies, according to Pannochka, an online publication for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old.. net The author of these lines also classifies himself as a sweet tooth and understands well: no matter how much nutritionists trumpet about the absence of useful substances in sweets and purely psychological dependence on a sweet “drug”, the sweet tooth still was, is and... will be.

Therefore, let's, dear sweet tooth, let's not talk about a dietary routine that is stuck on the teeth like “How to completely give up sweets in 2 weeks? ”, but about more real things. And debunk the myths that have been living for years. For example, is it really possible to eliminate sugar from the diet at all The better to replace the most dangerous sweets for the figure? How to eat sweets without compromising health?

Myth #1: Sugar is terribly unhealthy Sugar itself is neither harmful nor healthy.. By its properties, it is a preservative and does not contain any vitamins and minerals..

However, for full-fledged work, glucose is vital for our brain, which is easiest to get by drinking that very cup of tea with sugar, after which a short-term boost of energy will appear (it’s not without reason that sweet tea is given even to donors who are temporarily exhausted after donating blood).

But it is worth recalling that glucose and refined sugar are not always identical.. Glucose (plus useful trace elements) can be obtained from honey, fruits, dried fruits. And an excess of pure sugar with empty calories is still harmful - it slows down the metabolism (hello, those extra pounds! ), impairs digestion, slowing down the production of gastric juice (this is where the heaviness in the stomach comes from after eating cakes) and can provoke allergies and skin rashes with inflammation.

Myth No. 2: The main culprit of excess weight is sugar This statement is partly true.. Sugar really has an indirect relation to weight gain. However, if, in addition to sweets, you still like to abuse fast food for lunch, and fried potatoes and sausage for dinner, then it is unlikely that only a piece of cake and a bar of chocolate are to blame for your troubles with a figure..

Sweets have a high glycemic index, meaning they raise blood sugar levels very quickly.. To lower it, the pancreas is forced to release insulin into the blood.. The arithmetic is simple: more glucose - more insulin - more fat is synthesized in the body. All this, together with age and a slowdown in metabolism, can lead not only to the appearance of excess weight, but also to real obesity, diabetes, hypertension and atherosclerosis..

Of course, this is not a mandatory forecast, but with age it is still better to moderate your ardor at the sight of chocolate and muffins..

Myth #3: Some people can't live without a sweet for a day. This mania, like any other addiction, needs to be dealt with in the office of a professional psychologist or psychotherapist who has experience working with food addictions.. Since they are fundamentally no different from drug addiction or gambling cravings. However, if you are aware of your problem and suspect where her legs are growing from, then you can try to motivate and educate yourself on your own.. If only there was enough willpower.

The roots of this “impossibility to live” lie in the perception of sweets not as food, but as an antidepressant or sedative.. Sometimes parents manage to instill this painful addiction since childhood, for whom it is easier to give a crying child a candy than to be distracted from their affairs and calmly figure out the reasons for his tantrum..

So sweets gradually become for a person products from the category of " The boss at work reprimanded? I'll go and console myself with coffee and cake. Broke up with a loved one? Loan wo box of chocolates. Sitting with friends in a cafe? Well, how about without dessert for tea!

But it's not just about psychological addiction.. There are physical signs. After sweets enter the body, an abundance of simple carbohydrates provokes a jump in blood sugar - and we feel a boost of energy and cheerfulness, which means a good mood. But after a couple of hours, blood sugar levels fall much lower than the level at which it was before eating.. That is, there is a feeling of hunger, lethargy and a state of weakness.. I immediately want to return to the previous state of pleasure - and the hand itself reaches for another handful of cookies.

Reminds the behavior of an inveterate drug addict or alcoholic, doesn't it? Therefore, it is believed that the concept of food addiction is almost the same as any other addiction.. It turns out a vicious circle, which you just need to decide to break at least once, because such a swing is a risk to the body..

Myth No. 4: You can not refuse chocolate, because it is healthy This myth can be answered with a well-known aphorism: the cure for poison often differs only in the dose.

Firstly, if you consume chocolate every day with tiles, that all its useful qualities are leveled by the threat of dysbiosis (disturbances in the normal microflora of the intestines and vagina) and even a decrease in immunity.

Secondly, only dark dark chocolate with a cocoa bean content of at least 75% is considered useful.. Dark chocolate is rich in magnesium, zinc, potassium and selenium. It helps keep blood vessels in good shape and is a powerful antioxidant due to the presence of flavonoids in the composition (just like dry red wine).

However, as often as possible, remember the aphorism written above: any product is considered a medicine only in moderate doses.. So if chocolate is your everything, buy a bar of dark chocolate and stretch it out for a week, savoring a piece at every tea party.. And pleasure, and benefit, and no harm to the figure!

Myth number 5: there are useful and harmless sweets Yes, a true statement, but for some reason the hand always treacherously reaches for a cake with butter cream or a liver with a layer of condensed milk, and not for a fruit salad with yogurt and honey.

It’s all to blame for the false sensation of instant, but short-lived satiety from fatty sweets.. However, the combination of sweet and fatty is real dynamite, which you personally put on your metabolism..

From low-fat sweets, jam, marmalade, jelly, marshmallows, marshmallows can be distinguished. Good advice is to use dried fruits, fresh fruits and berries instead of sweets.. But in such sweets as marshmallows, marmalade and marshmallows, there is a useful substance pectin (fiber, which is also found in large quantities in apples), which cleans blood vessels, lowers cholesterol levels in the blood and restores the gastric mucosa. Also in the production of many sweets of a jelly-like consistency, agar-agar (a gelling agent from brown algae), which is also considered fiber, is used.. So that's right, healthy sweets exist.

Myth number 6: you need to completely eliminate sweets from the diet when you lose weight The daily sugar intake for a healthy adult is 80 g of glucose. The main thing is not to go beyond it while dieting..

However, if you think that it is enough not to buy factory-made sweets and muffins - and in this way you will completely rid your body of sugar, we are in a hurry to disappoint you..

Any 2 fruits a day is already half the daily glucose requirement. And if you still use up to 3 teaspoons of honey per day, replacing sugar with tea (or eat more than 2 fruits), then your body will receive the same daily rate, which was mentioned above..

If you are on a diet, but do not want to limit yourself to just honey and fruits, then you can calculate a safe daily allowance based on this arithmetic: one teaspoon of honey is equivalent to a teaspoon of refined sugar, a 5-gram slice of dark chocolate, or one marshmallow.

Myth number 7: if you already eat sweets, then only in the morning A fundamentally wrong statement, which is supported by the authors of many fashionable diets.

If you start the day with a breakfast of sweets, you can give your just awakened pancreas an explosion in blood sugar that is comparable only to a tsunami that blows away a dam.. In the morning, the body is still sleeping, and you need to wake it up gently - with a more balanced breakfast..

And the best time to drink tea with sweets is (do not believe! ) span from 16. 00 to 18. 00. Scientists have proven that it is during this time period that blood glucose levels fall to the lowest level - it is not harmful to raise it a little.. So the British, with their centuries-old tradition of “5 o’clock” evening tea, were intuitively right..

Myth #8: Sugar Addiction is Dangerous Indeed, those who have a sweet tooth risk getting a whole bunch of diseases and health problems if they uncontrollably consume sweets in unlimited quantities..

These can be constipation due to a violation of the intestinal microflora (dysbiosis), skin problems (greasy sheen, acne and inflammation), thrush due to a violation of the vaginal microflora, caries and other diseases of the teeth and gums, and, of course, obesity and diabetes.

Myth number 9: to reduce harm to health and shape, you need to replace sugar with fructose or other substitutes. Fructose, like glucose, is a fast carbohydrate that raises blood sugar in the same way.. Therefore, when buying sweets for diabetics, you change the awl for soap.

And it's time to send artificial sweeteners to the dustbin of history. This is pure chemistry that is toxic to the liver.. You need it?

If you really want to replace sugar with something, look for natural substitutes on sale that are absolutely safe for the body.. These are stevia (a naturally sweet plant that is usually sold in the form of liquid syrup) and agar-agar..

Myth #10: Ideally, it’s best to cut out sugar entirely. This will not work for any person on earth.. Except perhaps sun-eaters, but it is doubtful that they will live long on their "

And you are unlikely to succeed even on the most strict diet or the transition to vegetarianism.. Since sugar, at least in small quantities, is found in most vegetables and all fruits without exception.. There is even a percentage of sugar in garlic!

So our body gets sugar by default.

Myth No. 11: You can overcome sugar cravings Of course, you can, but first you need to decide where the roots of “sweet” addiction grow from.

To rule out physiological factors, you can start with a blood test.. For example, it is known that unbridled craving for sweets is often caused by a deficiency of chromium in the body, and a lack of magnesium provokes eating chocolate..

If everything is in order with the physiological parameters, then, most likely, you are simply “sweetening” your life, which for one reason or another does not suit you.. You can search for the source of disharmony in your soul on your own, or you can trust professionals by contacting a psychologist. Well, no one has canceled the banal, but effective advice:

start a favorite hobby, go for walks with friends and relatives more often, indulge yourself with something other than food - then your hands will reach out to sweets less often.

There is only one conclusion from all the myths about sweets: it is impossible to completely deprive the body of glucose, and it will not work - it is necessary for the functioning of our “mechanism”. However, there are always healthier (yet just as sweet) alternatives to refined sugar and factory-made cakes loaded with preservatives..

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