The flours and sugars hidden in industrialized foods cause addiction in predisposed people, due to the behavior of certain hormones and neurotransmitters.
To understand this, it is important to know that appetite is regulated by two small nerve centers located in the brain: that of hunger and that of satiety. They are complementary and process the information that reaches them from the digestive tract and the glands. Based on the data they receive, these two neurological centers are activated, triggering appetite or satiety.
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The human brain is very complicated and nobody knows perfectly the mechanisms that move it. What is known is that these two centers do not work in the same way for all people.
Some eat in a controlled way and feel satisfied for a long time. Others, however, eat quickly and get up from the table with the feeling of being hungry. Generally these types of people are inclined to foods that contain white flour and hidden sugars in their chemical composition.
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If you belong to this last group of people and you want to avoid bad choices and prevent compulsions, do not skip meals, so that the hunger center does not activate earlier than expected and eat slowly so that the satiety center has time to activate, as it begins to act approximately twenty minutes after the start of the meal.
There are many causes that cause the desire to eat white and / or sweet flours, those industrialized products that lead to food lack of control. Among them are the following:
- Hormonal imbalances (premenstrual syndrome, for example).
- Kidney fatigue from dehydration.
- Stress.
- Eating disorders (bulimia for example).
- Very strict diets, which cause anxiety.
- Do not eat for many hours.
- Have little or no breakfast.
- Imbalance of blood sugar levels. This can occur before dinner, approximately between 18 and 19 hours when he did not eat for many hours.
- If a person does not eat for a long time (one week, for example), he will enter a critical stage in which the metabolism will remain inactive in order not to waste energy.
The organism's signals
What are the brain messengers? The adrenaline, which causes stress, the person will not have control of their food intake. As a result, it will cause a decrease in serotonin, a chemical produced by the body, responsible for the blood balance in the mood. In normal states it causes states of pleasure and helps control appetite. When adrenaline increases, anxious states that trigger desires to eat industrialized foods (white and sweet flours) increase.
From the point of view of food, everything that is made with white flours and sugars (cookies, cakes, bills, among others) produces an increase in insulin, causing the aforementioned effect. This addiction must be worked on to have the weight under control.