“Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.” Marianne Williamson, Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness And Making Miracles
Video from, "Tales of Frankenstein: The Face in the Tombstone Mirror", 1958
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Your body craves sugar because it needs sugar. You crave because you are not eating enough, whether that means enough calories or enough of the optimal foods best designed for your body. When we eat enough of the right foods our bodies need, cravings magically disappear. Who would have thought it was this easy!
defending fruit … and other NONcomplex carbs by Emma Sgourakis:
Here is a collection of research notes, insights, scientific explanations, and clinically-founded conclusions, concerning the importance of sugar. And when I say sugar, I’m referring to the simpler carbohydrate comprising glucose and fructose; a.k.a. sucrose. In nature, this is the carbohydrate found in ripened fruits, beetroots and certain other well-cooked root vegetables, pure honey, and dare I say it, cane sugar.
Confusion and ignorance surrounding “carbs”, that the complex ones are “healthy” while simplerones are “unhealthy”, or that we should exclude this macronutrient entirely, has gotten us into serious metabolic strife. We’ve been so ill informed that it’s come to the point where even fruits, those nourishing, restorative, pro-metabolic, digestible (and delicious) jewels of nature, are damned. We’re told carbs are carbs, sugars are sugars, ignoring the fundamental biochemistry of all the very different carbohydrate forms. Whole grains are so wrongly glorified while orange juice is put on par with Pepsi. And where has this gotten us? Fat, diabetic, hypothyroid, inflamed, adrenalised and reproductively-challenged.
When clients come to me complaining of incessant “carb-cravings” as if it’s indicative of an emotional weakness on their part, I suggest to them that maybe their body is an intelligent machine that sends out signals for a reason and maybe, just maybe, their cells are screaming out for fuel: glucose. Their metabolic needs are not being met. LISTEN TO YOUR BODY. Understand the differences and intricacies of carbohydrates, and the basics of physiology. Understand what healthy “sugars” are, don’t cut carbs (only the inefficient ones), don’t “quit” real sugar, and certainly don’t fear fruits.
