In Michael Pollan\u2019s book, In Defense of Food, he makes a case for why we should get back to eating like our great-great grandparents.\u00a0 The trendiness that has overcome the food industry has made us eat food that isn\u2019t actually good for us just convenient for the food marketers and the journalists to promote.\u00a0 One of the fads that he writes about is the desire to want things that are non-fat.\u00a0 When we remove the fat in order to make things taste good we add sugar.\u00a0 Sugar, unlike whole fats, is addictive.\u00a0 It is just like a drug.\u00a0 I understand this.\u00a0 I crave sugar.\u00a0 I, like many people, am addicted to sugar.\u00a0 It would seem no matter how healthy I feel that I am eating I still crave sugar.\u00a0 Although I gave up eating non-fat foods over a year ago, I was still saddened to imagine that perhaps my craving for sugar was because of my long history of avoiding full-fat foods and replacing them with sugar.\u00a0 Now, when I crave sugar could it be that it is been a habit that I have lived with for so long that I will never be able to break it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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