Did you know the sugar addicted have a lowered ability to smell?“Your palate adjusts significantly and quickly when you delete sugar. You can suddenly experience a whole range of flavours that either you didn’t know existed before or were muted by the presence of sugar. One thing people often remark on after they’ve been off sugar for a month or so is that suddenly they can smell it. They can tell you where the confectionery aisle or the breakfast cereal aisle is in a strange supermarket by smell alone.” What worries Gillespie, though, is not the candy by the checkout, but the fructose lurking in your ready-meal. “Very few of us are making conscious decisions about the sugar we eat,” he says. “The average Briton is consuming more than a kilo (238 teaspoonfuls) a week, but I bet they’d be flummoxed accounting for more than a few teaspoons of that. Sugar is deeply and thoroughly embedded in our food supply.” - David Gillespie, author of Sweet Poison
Source: Sweet poison: why sugar is ruining our healthThere is a lot more sugar in our food than we would imagine. Recently a friend of mine began to notice if he ate sugary foods it would make him feel less than well. He has cut his sugar intake almost entirely, and has found that he feels significantly healthier, despite his occasional delve into natural sugars, he is for the most part, free from it. But he can actually smell sugar now. I thought this was strange at first but I realized it makes perfect sense, I as a sugar “addict” can’t smell it. We go nose blind to it, much like a cat lady to… cat smell.
I personally would have a hard time cutting sugar out of my life enough to see these results, but I don’t think it’s impossible. I have started keeping track of all of the sugar I eat and I am raised brows surprised where it is and how much it is. Anyone have any experience on the issue? Anyone think of a similar example?