ALLERGY ADDICTION: FOOD CRAVINGS
Compulsive eating can develop in those non-drinkers who developed their particular food sensitivity as children or young adults. Many young people when they leave home to live with friends are too busy socialising and having fun in their out of work hours to take the time to cook balanced meals with a good variation of foods. Eating on the go becomes the thing and the diet is usually made up of refined takeaway foods and TV dinners which are vitamin and mineral deficient and made up basically of the same things—white sugar and white flour. Chemical flavourings, colourings and preservatives give this monotonous diet its variety. Ambitious young high achievers fall into this food category as well. They’re too busy working to cook balanced meals.
Many of the over-weight compulsive eaters I’ve treated developed their food cravings as a result of over-exposure to a given food as a child (in the manner previously described) or as a young person who left the nest and Mum’s home cooking. These food cravings can manifest in one of two ways. Either as a craving for the food in question or as a craving for sugar. Allergic hypoglycaemia is the term used to describe this latter phenomenon. Hypoglycaemia means a sudden dropping in the levels of glucose in the blood. When this happens, a message is sent to the brain that glucose levels must be restored immediately, and a craving for sugar results. Those people whose allergy withdrawal symptoms trigger hypoglycaemia are driven by an unbelievable compulsion to eat sweets or white flour foods, lots of them and often. Uncontrollable over-weight soon becomes a problem for them, is of great benefit to people with allergic hypoglycaemia.
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