Remember though that moderation is the key and, to keep control of your sugar addiction, you would have to study and understand the Ayurvedic way of eating.

Also don’t be taken in by the diet gurus who tell you that you can eat sweets to your hearts content as they are fat free! They are invariably 99% fat free but you have to take into account what all the sugar is doing to your body.

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•biscuits

•cakes

•processed foods such as tomato and pasta sauces

•canned fruits

•ice cream

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You will find that they all contain some form of sugar (sucrose, glucose, fructose, dextrose, lactose, maltose, corn syrup and sorbitol) adding empty kilojoules to your diet and not satisfying your appetite, hence the craving for more and more and before you know it you have a sugar addiction.

Add a few sweets, a soft drink or two and the refined, highly concentrated sugar, we add so generously to our tea and coffee, and you are set for disaster.

By the way, if you are one of those people that think brown sugar is healthier, it is nothing more than refined white sugar with a little molasses added.

Use only raw organic sugar in small amounts.

When you consume refined sugar as in candy, cakes etc. the sugar, in the form of sucrose, passes directly into the intestine where it is turned into glucose and is taken up by the blood stream increasing the glucose level.

The blood sugar level is now upset and more insulin will be secreted to rectify this, which can set you off on a binge and could also cause mood swings.

Added to this, vitamin B is removed or destroyed during the refining process, and since the body needs vitamin B to use the sugar, it begins to draw on the bodies reserves of vitamin B to metabolize the sugar.

As vitamin B is the vitamin that helps you handle stress you will find that your mood and sleep pattern will be affected and fatigue and loss of concentration will follow.

Of course the easiest thing to do is to medicate these feelings with some more junk food, and this is where the unhappy cycle and, sugar addiction, begins!