GOT CONTROL OF YOUR SWEET TOOTH? YOUR TASTE BUDS ARE DOING A HAPPY DANCE!
If you've stuck to this challenge and
you have been diligent at staying away
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are also doing a victory dance!
They have been so bogged down for so long,
but now they can truly taste the sweetness of an apple. They can enjoy how wonderful a pear tastes!
Taste buds are the sentinels in our body.
They let us know if something is pleasurable by sending signals to the brain.
They let us know if a food is something we want to continue eating or if we should move on and try something else. They are what makes eating and drinking fun!
Sugar weakens our taste buds' ability to their job. Sugar desensitized our taste buds. We don't even know it's happening, until it's to the point that nothing is enough...and we keep wanting more and more. (The same goes for salt.)
So, it's best to let these happy little guys stay happy.
Give them just a little sweetness once in a while, but don't overload them.
They just can't take the work load.
Also, I wanted to point out just one more very compelling reason to keep sugar at bay after this challenge: SUGAR MAKES YOU AGE FASTER!
Yep, eating sugar on a daily basis attacks your skin and makes your collagen flimsy, giving you wrinkles.
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| Chromosome Telomeres |
And a very recent study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, found that besides diabetes, heart disease, dementia, and all those other degenerative diseases, sugar is also linked to accelerated DNA aging and shortened telomeres!
YIKES!
We don't want to encourage that that, now do we?
Hint: For the past year, I've been following the research on telomeres (they are the protective caps at the end of each of chromosome) and we definitely want long ones! Long telomeres = longer life.
So, tomorrow is your LAST day for this challenge but, come on, let's make it the first day for your new healthy daily habit! I know you can do it!
Be well, my friends!
~Anne
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