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Toxic Hunger. . .
is at the foundation of food addiction and the major cause of obesity
Most
people will never experience the feeling of hunger. In fact, most desire to
avoid it. Feeling hungry is actually a guide to ingesting the amount of calories
you require for health and maintaining your ideal weight. When you eat out of
true hunger, food tastes much better and you are physiologically primed for
proper digestion. Hunger, in the true sense of the word, indicates to you that
it is time to eat again.
Real
hunger is not often experienced in our modern, overfed population. Most people
no longer even remember or are aware what hunger even feels like. Most are
surprised to find that true hunger is felt in the throat and not in the head or
stomach.
Instead of true
hunger, people are experiencing detoxification or withdrawal symptoms that they
mistake for hunger. They feel shaky, head achy, weak, get abdominal cramps or
spasms, which they believe to be hunger because they are relieved by eating.
This is" toxic hunger.” Toxic hunger is symptoms a person experiences that are
due to toxic wastes being mobilized for elimination. It occurs after a meal is
digested and the digestive track is empty, and it could make you feel very
uncomfortable.
Generally, you eat
to get rid of these withdrawal symptoms and it works. In fact, this is one of
the most important contributors to our population's overweight condition. You
eat the wrong foods, and just a few hours later you feel ill, stressed out,
shaky, weak, mentally dull, and you are driven to eat again to relieve the
discomfort. Did you ever hear someone say they need to eat because they felt so
shaky? The question is, are these symptoms true hunger, hypoglycemia, or
something else? These symptoms occur simultaneous to your blood sugar decreasing
but they are not caused by" hypoglycemia.” They result from tissue sensitivity
to mobilization of waste products which occurs when most active digestion is
finished.
You
do not want to go hungry and deny yourself food to achieve an ideal weight.
There is a better answer. When you eat a nutrient‐dense
diet, rich with lots of colorful vegetables, you will meet your nutrient needs,
and this will reduce and eliminate uncomfortable withdrawal symptoms. High
nutrient eating enables you to deal with all types of stress, but in this
case, eating more high‐nutrient
foods will enable you to avoid stress hunger and eliminate cravings and the
drive to overeat.
When your diet is
low in nutrients, you build up intra-cellular waste products. So when digestion
stops, your body goes through a period of cleaning, meaning that your tissues
release toxic substances into circulation for removal. Your cells can harbor
toxic products that build up in your body when your diet is relatively nutrient
poor. Phytonutrients are required for your body to properly detoxify metabolic
waste products. When you don't eat sufficient phytochemical rich vegetation and
consume excess animal proteins (creating excess nitrogenous wastes), you
exacerbate the build up of metabolic waste products in your bodies. You get
confused because when you eat the same heavy foods that are causing the problem
to begin with, you feel better. This makes becoming overweight inevitable.
If you stop
digesting food, even for a short time, your body will begin to experience
symptoms of detoxification or withdrawal from your unhealthful diet. To counter
this you eat heavy meals, eat too often and keep your digestive track overfed to
lessen the discomfort from your stressful diet . When your body has acclimated
to noxious agents it is called addiction. Try to stop taking the heroin and you
will feel ill. In fact, you must have it, or you will become terribly sick this
is called withdrawal. When you stop doing something harmful to yourselves you
feel ill as your body mobilizes cellular wastes and attempts to repair the
damage caused by the exposure.
If you habitually
drink three cups of coffee or caffeinated soda a day, you will get a withdrawal
headache when your caffeine level dips too low. Taking in more caffeine or food
could make you feel better by retarding the detoxification or withdrawal
symptoms.
Likewise, a few
hours after eating the standard low nutrient diet, most people begin to feel
hungry. They feel weak, headachy, tired, mentally dull, and have stomach spasms.
This is stress or toxic hunger because these symptoms only occur in those who
have been eating a toxic diet. True hunger would not have occurred so early
after a meal. True hunger signals occur when your body needs calories to
maintain your lean body mass. No one would become overweight if they ate food
demanded by true hunger and true hunger only. But in your present toxic food
environment, you have lost the ability to connect with your body signals
that tell you how much food you actually need. You have become slaves to
withdrawal symptoms and eat all day long, even when there is no biological need
for calories. This cycle of eating, and then avoiding the symptoms of
detoxification by eating again, does not have to continue. There is a way out.
When you restore the nutritional integrity and relative cleanliness to your
tissues, you simply will not have the desire to eat to get rid of the toxin
induced symptoms.
In an environment
of healthy food choices, you would not feel any symptoms after a meal until
hormonal and neurological messengers indicated glycogen reserves in your liver
were running low. Your body possess a beautifully orchestrated ability to give
you precise signals which tell you exactly how much to eat to maintain an ideal
weight for your long term health. These signals are called true hunger to
differentiate them from the toxic hunger everyone else calls hunger. Feeding
yourselves to satisfy true hunger does not cause weight gain, and if people were
better connected with these normal signals it would be almost impossible for
anyone to become overweight. True hunger is felt in the throat, neck and mouth,
not in your stomach or head. It is a drawing sensation. It is not very
uncomfortable to feel real hunger, it makes food taste much better when you eat,
and it makes eating an intense pleasure. True hunger requires no special food to
satisfy it. It is relieved by eating almost anything. You can't crave some
particular food and call it hunger. A craving by definition is an addictive
drive, not something felt by a person who is not an addict.
In order to achieve
an ideal weight and consume the exact amount of calories to maintain a lean body
mass you do not have to carry around a calculator and a scale to figure out how
much to eat. A healthy body will give you the correct signals. So in order to
achieve superior health, maximize your longevity potential, and achieve your
ideal weight, you have to eat well enough to get back in touch with true hunger
and rid yourselves of this stress hunger.
Every cell is like
a little factory. It makes products, produces waste and then must compact,
detoxify and remove waste. If you don't get sufficient antioxidants and
phytonutrients from your diet, your cells are unable to effectively remove the
waste. If you let waste build up, your body will attempt to get rid of the waist
when it can but it can only do that effectively if you are not eating.
Eating makes you feel better because it halts or delays this detoxification
process.
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