“A simple test to do”: Dr. Jimmy Mohamed reveals how to know if you are addicted to sugar

Our body loves sugar and needs it to work (glucose is the major “fuel” of our cells). Problem, for some of us, it becomes omnipresent in food (according to handles, almost 30 % of French people have too large sugar intake). However, in the more or less long term, overweight overweight, obesity and diabetes. Several studies have shown that in rats, sugar could be as addictive as cocaine. Without extrapolating these results to the human being, it is to be feared that one can become dependent on sugar. If you think you are in this situation, take this test proposed by Dr. Jimmy Mohamed.

Do you like chocolate? That’s good, because it will precisely serve as a test to find out if you are addicted to sugar! Dr. Jimmy Mohamed offers you a very simple experience: bite a square of dark chocolate with 70 % cocoa. If you like it, it’s pretty good sign! On the other hand, if you deem it far too bitter, that you hate it and you prefer milk chocolate, it may be that “Your palace has been used to Gogo sugars and your taste buds only tolerate sweet foods and especially milk chocolate“Explains the doctor.

It’s necessary “Understand why we are addicted to sugar“, Advocates Jimmy Mohamed. Very often, when you eat too sweet, it is to comfort yourself, fight against stress or fatigue. In these situations, the hormones are disturbed. The feeling of satiety is deregulated and the Hormone of appetite (called “Ghrelin”) is active, which then explains our greatest attraction for calorie, fatty, sweet and salty foods.

Rest assured, the goal is not to completely stop eating sugar, but rather to try to understand yourself better and determine the causes of our attraction to sweet products. Ideal? Consult a nutritionist to try to resume good eating habits. After a while, do not hesitate to redo the dark chocolate test. You will find that he has much better!