tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4844760454340248781.post8951463541054067279..comments2023-10-21T06:37:05.348-04:00Comments on Hard Curves: Addiction!Julie Bellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15157550632857523438noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4844760454340248781.post-9454969155470474452009-11-14T22:54:51.729-05:002009-11-14T22:54:51.729-05:00Holidays are a particularly tough time to stay on ...Holidays are a particularly tough time to stay on track. I think that would be a good subject to write a post about (right away!).<br />Thanks for the idea, Jen! <br />I'm sorry for your loss of Peewee, but it's good that you've learned so much since then that's good for you and your other cats.Julie Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15157550632857523438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4844760454340248781.post-75503204434392696562009-11-10T20:22:51.507-05:002009-11-10T20:22:51.507-05:00Great info Julie! That's a fascinating study a...Great info Julie! That's a fascinating study and I'll certainly be sharing it with a few friends.Oddly enough, it was learning about what commercial pet food does to a pet's health that inspired me to give up anything with high fructose corn syrup and other "junk food" additives years ago. I had raised my cat Peewee from a two week old kitten, so we were very bonded to one another. Since I had adopted him when I was a poor college student he ate cat food that was pretty much the feline equivalent of ramen noodles. Once I could afford it I bought him what I thought was better food, but like the lab rats he would rather starve than eat anything but the cheapest stuff on the market. He was already tiny-which is why my fellow students had named him Peewee! So starving wasn't an option. At age 14 he developed hyperthyroid and kidney disease (14 is not that old- domestic cats can live to age 24 fairly easily with the right diet). My pet sitter gave me an article on what's really in pet food, and the first ingredient in most pet foods is..corn! HFCS is also a common additive, along with food coloring and other things that are too nasty to even write about. Cats and dogs can't digest corn, but it spikes their blood sugar and causes them to crave more food. The additives and food industry wastes that are put into commercial pet foods are linked by many vets to kidney failure, diabetes, and cancer. It's pretty much the worst sort of "junk food" on the market. And it got me thinking; if all of those additives and corn products shorten the lives of dogs and cats to such a degree, they certainly aren't good for us either! Sadly I couldn't save Peewee, but I learned enough that I cleaned up my diet and that of my remaining pets after that. We're all much healthier for it today.<br /><br />Two weeks is about what it takes me to "detox" after eating sugar during the Holidays. It's tough, because you want to be polite when someone brings you a goodie and at least sample it, but then the addiction starts all over again! If only I could be as easily addicted to brussels sprouts.Jennifer G. Oliverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05921022924125424519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4844760454340248781.post-21454609014610456802009-11-10T15:41:22.426-05:002009-11-10T15:41:22.426-05:00I think it's probably one of those things that...I think it's probably one of those things that's different for different people. As for myself, there have been times when I've gotten hooked on sugar and it takes me about a week to stop craving it. <br />I do think that if you clean up your diet for even just two weeks, you'll see significant positive changes in every system of your body and mind. After that, it's way easier to stay there and maintain your healthy lifestyle.Julie Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15157550632857523438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4844760454340248781.post-13694929267947296752009-11-10T11:40:08.811-05:002009-11-10T11:40:08.811-05:00I heard on the John Tesh radio show that it takes ...I heard on the John Tesh radio show that it takes about two weeks to retrain your body not to crave junk food after you stop eating it and then to switch to craving/desiring the healthy food that you replace it with.Have you heard/read anything like this?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08067146355824957557noreply@blogger.com