Withdrawal Symptoms From Food
Just like smoking, if you were to stop eating something that you were intolerant to (after eating it for weeks, months or years), your body will send you alarm signals in the form of withdrawal symptoms.
These occur because the body has got so used to the food, it now thinks it needs it to survive (even if that food is actually harming the body).
Common Food Withdrawal SymptomsÂ
The withdrawal symptoms from food can vary greatly depending on the type and amount of food normally consumed.
However in general most food withdrawal symptoms come in the form of headaches, irritability, lack of concentration, fatigue, nervousness or feeling depressed.
Waking Up With Food Withdrawal Symptoms
By the time you eat breakfast it would have been around 12-14 hours since your last meal, and this is more than enough time for food withdrawal symptoms to appear. As a result people typically wake up feeling tired, slow and grumpy.
Relieving Food Withdrawal             Â
When you eat breakfast and have your wheat, dairy, sugar or caffeine, it relieves the withdrawal symptoms and within an hour you start to feel fine again until the next morning.
So even though a food may be bad for you (i.e. you are intolerant to it) once your body becomes adapted to it, eating the food again will make you feel better because it is relieving the withdrawal symptoms that occur in its absence. See this article for more information on how the body becomes adapted to intolerant foods.
What this means is that often the foods you crave the most are the foods you are most intolerant to, and the foods that are doing you the most harm.
The next part of this article shall explore how food effects your DNA and health.
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October 24th, 2007 at 5:50 am
Good post, It’s interesting to think that anything can be addictive.