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A listener production.
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Hi, welcome to Crappy to Happy with Tip and Cass.
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Thanks for joining us in this series. We take you
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through ways to feel less crappy and more happy with
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really easy, simple tools and tips that you can take
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on today. Last episode we had a chat about being
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self critical, and this episode we're going to delve into sugar,
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how it's addictive, why it's bad for your body and brain,
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and what you can do to avoid sweet treats. Cass.
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A lot of people look at me and say, oh,
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you're a trainer, you look healthy. You have no idea
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what it's like to have a sugar addiction. Maybe true.
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I grew up in a healthy household, my mom green
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juices every morning and exercise all of that. But when
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I joined The Biggest Loser, the producers had this great
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idea that the trainers should move in to the household
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with our obese contestants and we should eat and drink
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everything they eat and drink for the week. Wow, not exercise,
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and see the repercussions on our health and our weight.
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And I thought, oh, you know, I've been training for
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twenty years. What can one week of eating sugar do
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to me? Wow?
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How did it go well.
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I moved in with them and I ate what they ate,
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drank what they drank, and didn't exercise, And in one
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week I put on over five kilos. Wow, and I'm
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five foot four, so that's a lot of weight on
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my body. And weight comes and goes, and that's very
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dangerous in one week to put on a kilo in
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every every day. But what I noticed was my mood dropped.
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I lost all motivation to train, even if I had
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been able to, I was lethargic, and my immune system
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just plummeted. I had a chest infection, two courses of antibiotics,
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and in the end ended up on a ventilin because
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I was so sick and run.
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This is after one week. One week of a lot
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of so that was a lot of sugar.
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Oh only sugar. I'm talking soft drinks, biscuits, ice cream,
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fast food, you know, sugary buns in fast food joints
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and things like that, burgers. And it just said to me, Okay,
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this is a real issue. I felt what it felt like,
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and I thought, this has got to change.
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Now.
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If you think about your body, your body has five
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liters or more of blood pumping through its system every
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single day in order to survive. We only need one
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teaspoon or sugar for energy in that blood. Okay, and
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the blood's cleaning itself every day, just one teaspoon. But
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the average Australian is consuming more than twenty two tea
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spoons a day and they're not even realizing it.
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So is this sugar, This is teaspoons of sugar in
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your coffee or are you talking about sugar in.
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Package added sugar? I'm talking process sugar. Added sugar that
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you may add to your coffee, but is also added
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to cereals, to your yoga, to healthy muselely bars. And
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you know, we went through this fad of fat free
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where we were scared of fat.
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Yeah we did, and I grew up in that era.
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Yes, exactly. Fat free and fat free doesn't taste so good,
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so the companies laced the products with sugar so it
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would taste better. And it's actually the sugar that is negative.
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So when you think about what your body needs to survive,
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do you know what it needs to survive in terms
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of nutrition, I'm thinking protein, carbo hydrate, water and fat
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nutrients spartamin. Yeah, so you've got macro nutrients and micronutrients,
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But the macro nutrients, which are the big things that
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we need to survive are protein and carbohydrate and fat,
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and they come with different energy powers.
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Sugar count as a carbohydrate.
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No, well, sugar. Natural sugars are found in a little
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bit of berries and some fruit and vegetable a little
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bit yep. But processed sugar is not a macro nutrient
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something we invented, and our body actually doesn't know how
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to deal with that. So every macronutrient, like protein or
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carbohydrate or fat, it triggers hormones in our body to
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tell you you're full, Like leptin, that's the chemical in
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our brain that says, hey, I'm full. I've had enough fat.
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So if you have a fat treat like a croissant,
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you'll feel full. But if you have a sugar treat
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and you've just deadened those cell receptors from having too
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much insulin that's come into your blood to try and
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clean that excess sugar, wow, the insulin actually blocks that
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I'm full hunger, you know, I'm full hormone, so you
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don't get that appetite Q saying you've had enough sugar, so.
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You keep wanting more.
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There's no mechanism built into our body to shut it down.
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But fat is good. So I always say to people,
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if you want to treat, have a fat, treat, have
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something fatty. Don't go for the sugar because you crave
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you have sugar, you want more. And also your gut health.
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Your gut is like a second brain. It's full of
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good and bad bacteria, and that bad bacteria love sugar,
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and it sends a message straight to your brain to
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crave more sugar. So these little it's like a zoo
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within you.
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Yeah, I'm interested in the gut health.
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Yeah, it's actually sending signals to your brain. So you
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may think, oh, I'm a sugar addict. You know what
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can I do about this? But it's not actually you.
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It's your gut health. And the more sugar you eat,
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the more you are wiring your whole body hormonally to
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just crave more of this stuff. And if you think
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about some of the stats nowadays, there's up to sixteen
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teaspoons of sugar in a single six hundred mili liter
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bottle of soft drink, and some people will have two
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of those a day, and people.
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Who have like two liters a day, even like think
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about orange juice.
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Right.
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This is the trap, isn't it? Because there are so
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many foods that we think are actually healthy alternatives. But
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when you, like you said before, yogats, cereals and.
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Breathoods, bread absolutely so added sugar.
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It's a trap for people because I think we all
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think that if we're not adding sugar, I don't add sugar,
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like I don't have I don't have sugar in my
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coffee or anything like that. But I probably I don't
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drink self drink, but I probably am unwittingly having sugar.
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I'd be interested to actually see how much in all
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of that processed stuff.
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Yeah, so with things like orange juice that you think
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it's really healthy. If you have one six hundred mili
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liter orange juice a day, perhaps you're giving it to
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your kids, there's enough sugar in that to equate twenty
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three kilos of sugar in a year. Right, So that's
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a lot of processed sugar. And in Australia now we
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are in the top ten countries per capita of consumption
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of sugary drinks. And so look, there's a lot of
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sugar in health products. There's a lot of sugar in
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in everything that you find, and I will give you
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tips later on to decode them. Yeah, decode food labels and.
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Things like that.
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But I did this experiment with a couple who came
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to me and they couldn't fit in any exercise. They
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didn't want to change their diet, but they had to
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lose weight. And I thought, where do I start with this?
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And I said, these people exist, Okay, they change.
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Time change I want it?
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Yeah? Can I change my body without changing my lifestyle? Tive? Please,
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I don't want to do anything. And I thought, okay,
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you know what. I've got the exact thing. I've got
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something for you. Because once I asked them what they ate,
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what they drank, they told me that they were having
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seven coffees a day with sugar in it, and they
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were also having one can of soft drink, which equates
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to three hundred and thirty six jelly beans of sugar
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per week. Okay, and about one hundred and thirty jelly
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beans is one hundred grams of sugar. So I thought,
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sugar is a problem here. They're drinking their calories. So
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for two weeks, I said, all I want you to
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do is do my water week which is cutting out
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all liquid calories, your soft drinks, your sugar rejuices, you're
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added sugar and coffee meal replacements. If you're having it shakes,
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I mean energy drinks, all of that. Just drink water.
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I mean you can jazz it up with some lemon
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and herbal tea is fine. Imagine people would find that
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quite difficult that yes, alcohol, right, they had to cut
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out alcohol. And in that two weeks, my male volunteer
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lost eight kilos.
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Just from cutting out liquid liquid.
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Calories, and my female lost free kilograms just from cutting
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out the liquid calories that were really sugar calories. So
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it just proves that it's not just what you're eating drinking,
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it's what you're drinking as well. And if we just
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remember that our bodies don't need that sugar, that processed
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sugar to survive. You know, I'm not sugar free. I
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want to say that that's very important to point out.
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I like fruit, there's sugar and vegetables. I will have
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an odd treat. I mean I love you know, that's
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what life's about. Having something.
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Yeah, chocolate, I can't live with that chocolate, But I
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mean people have trouble living without jocolut exactly.
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And you just have to be a realist about it,
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I think, and especially with kids, you can't be like
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my kids sugar free and then send them off to
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a birthday party and say, sweetheart, you're not having any
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birthday cake. I mean, we have to be realistic. But
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there are things that will come back and talk about
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that you can do just to be aware about it. Sugar,
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because it is quite dangerous and it does have negative
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effects on your brain. It depresses your immune system. It
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can increase the stress hormone cortisol in your body, which
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means that affects how you burn fat, and I'm sure
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casts that it affects the way you think.
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Yeah, well look I'm not the nutritionist. I'm a psychologist
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and so, but my understanding of the way sugar works
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on your brain is it obviously gives you a big
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spike in energy and then a crash, so it sends
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your mood all over the place, you know, ups and
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downs in energy. So it's quite makes you quite erratic
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in your mood. And the other thing that we know
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about sugar is that it hits your brain's reward centers
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in the same way that drugs and alcohol do, so
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it really dopamine is the feel good neurotransmitter. So dopamine
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is implicated in a lot of these addictive kind of behaviors.
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Uh huh.
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So when you get a massive hit of dopamine, you
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feel great and you immediately you want more. And so
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what we know is that sugar affects our brain in
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the same way as, for example, cocaine. In fact, I
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think somebody has found that that sugar is actually in
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rats not humans. Uh huh, that sugar is more addictive
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than cocaine.
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WHOA.
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So when we talk about substance dependence, the criteria in
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psychology for substance dependence, we talk about needing more of
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the thing to have the same effect, So this tolerance,
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and we know that that happens with sugar. And I
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think you're talking about that whole wanting more, so you
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have it, and you keep on needing to have more
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and more and more to produce the same feel good
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kind of outcome. And the other thing is withdrawals. So
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and I know people who have a lot of sugar
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come off sugar and they physically they go through a
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physical withdrawal.
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With our members on tifxo dot com, who stop having
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added sugar.
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Headaches, headaches, le g yes, all of that, all of that.
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So from my perspective, like I'm not a big sugar eater,
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I probably do have the hidden sugars in the process foods.
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But I'm really interested in the psychological impact of sugar,
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So how it affects our brain and mood. And it's addictive.
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We know it's addictive, so what can you do about that?
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From the brain perspective, it is just about having it in.
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Moderation or the thing?
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Right, do you not light up that reward center?
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Because when people have a drug addiction, then we promote abstinence,
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really don't we. I mean, there are people who can
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drink alcohol, for example, moderately and don't have to become
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a complete teetotaler. So it depends on the individual and
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how big a problem it is. Because what you don't
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want to do, what you want to avoid doing, I
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think is completely demonizing something and activating that what you
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resist persists, you know, that wanting becoming fixated and obsessed
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with I can't have sugar, I can't have chocolate, and
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therefore all I'm focusing on is how much I really
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want that chocolate so you do want to try to
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set up a lifestyle where it's allowed in moderation. But
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I think you probably first of all, have to break