The first step to overcoming an addiction is to own up to it.
The second is to look at emotional/psychological wounds that have not healed properly.
The third is to work on your microbiome and diet—they feedback on each other. The more sugar you eat, the more you mess up your microbiome, which leads to more sugar cravings.
Good luck to you…
Clinical and Translational Report
Habitual daily intake of a sweet and fatty snack modulates reward processing in humans
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2023.02.015Get rights and content
Highlights
- Daily consumption of a high-fat/high-sugar snack alters reward circuits in humans
- Preference for low-fat food decreases while brain response to milkshake increases
- Neural computations that support adaptive associative learning are also enhanced
- Effects are observed despite no change in body weight or metabolic health
Summary
Western diets rich in fat and sugar promote excess calorie intake and weight gain; however, the underlying mechanisms are unclear. Despite a well-documented association between obesity and altered brain dopamine function, it remains elusive whether these alterations are (1) pre-existing, increasing the individual susceptibility to weight gain, (2) secondary to obesity, or (3) directly attributable to repeated exposure to western diet. To close this gap, we performed a randomized, controlled study (NCT05574660) with normal-weight participants exposed to a high-fat/high-sugar snack or a low-fat/low-sugar snack for 8 weeks in addition to their regular diet. The high-fat/high-sugar intervention decreased the preference for low-fat food while increasing brain response to food and associative learning independent of food cues or reward. These alterations were independent of changes in body weight and metabolic parameters, indicating a direct effect of high-fat, high-sugar foods on neurobehavioral adaptations that may increase the risk for overeating and weight gain.
