A recent article in the New York Times discussed how bingeing will officially become a new disorder, with drug research underway to fix it.
Many holistic health and wellness coaches and practitioners have actually figured this puzzle out. Some of us have done so sans advanced medical and college degrees by researching the buried data about why bingeing occurs.
Despite what all the brilliant researchers, scientists, and doctors backed by the food, chemical, and drug barons say, we must remember that humans managed to make the last 10,000 years till now intact and vital, thank you very much. They did so without pharmaceuticals, artificial sweeteners, and all the low fat, high grain, refined, de-natured stuff the big conglomerates have the nerve to pass off on a confused, harried public as food and health. We are not equipped to process anything we didn’t eat 100,000 years ago because we haven’t evolved one iota since.
Refined sugar, grains, salt, artificial sweeteners, MSG, and HFCS shut off a really important part of the brain called the appestat. That appestat monitors our blood for nutrients, signaling satiety and to put the fork down. When these “ingredients” hit our mouths, our bodies taste salt for instance, and gear up for the good stuff. After our brain outs the sodium chloride salt imposter, it mercilessly drives us to continue eating in the hope that eventually we’ll eat something containing the 70 trace elements present in unprocessed sea salt. Artificial sweeteners, MSG, high fructose corn syrup, refined sugars, and carbs also put the appestat to sleep. Enormous amounts of calorie dense crap are ingested, but we aren’t full. So we go searching for more of the same thing that we just ate, driven by millennia old survival mechanisms.
So what’s the big deal if you binge?
Bingeing on these “foods” prompts the pancreas to let loose a load of insulin to clear the blood of the junk. Insulin’s job is to make fat, which it’s very good at. The toxin filled fat is sent to the belly and butt. Too much insulin, when you understand how our bodies constantly strive for homeostasis, then becomes the epi-center of all chronic, preventable disease. Insulin release is prompted by sugar, caffeine, too many carbs, refined foods, and additives.
