Why Does Sugar Have Such A Hold Over Us?

Dishing Up Nutrition

Nutritional Weight & Wellness, Inc.

Nutrition, Education, Health & Fitness:nutrition, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.3 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Does sugar have you hooked? Do you feel you are addicted to sugar, and you just have to have some to feel normal? Do you have a sweet tooth that always has you thinking about where to get your next treat? Maybe you have said to yourself, I could just ____ (insert your health goal), if I could just stop eating sugar. Why is something that tastes so good also be so bad for us? Today we want to explore some of the reasons sugar has a hold over many of us with two special hosts who share their personal connection to the sugar habit.

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0:00.0	Well, good morning, everyone. Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.
0:07.6	I'm Carolyn Hudson, and I'm a registered and licensed dietitian. And I've been a dietitian since 1980.
0:17.1	Wow. Yes. 44 years. Long time, right?
0:23.0	That's really a long time that I've been talking about the benefits of real eating and eating real food, right, all the time.
0:34.1	So I'm also happy to know a lot about nutrition, even though I'm officially retired since November.
0:44.9	I still help out here with the radio show.
0:48.2	I like to do corporate classes as well.
0:50.6	And I still help a lot of my friends and family make better food choices. You know,
0:59.3	friends often ask me, especially during COVID, you know, what supplements should I be taking?
1:05.6	What should I be eating to help support myself, help support my immune system? I learned this nutrition
1:16.0	knowledge through, you know, first of all, getting a college degree in nutrition. And of course,
1:24.3	attending many seminars over the years, because we have to keep up our education
1:30.0	points and licensure and continually reading and I read research, I read books, I look at the
1:41.2	science, I go to all of the reputable websites and check things out.
1:48.1	And, of course, I listen to podcasts.
1:51.0	And working with a number of different clients,
1:55.3	a variety with a variety of problems, right?
1:57.9	I mean, no one person or two people are the same, right? So this knowledge has
2:04.2	really helped me stay healthy as I've aged. And I'm really proud to say that I have really,
2:11.9	really good health right now. And my mother, you know, who eats real food, she's 94.
2:19.4	And she's in very good health.
2:22.8	So today, you've probably heard Nell in the background.
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