By Rania Watts
When I first immigrated to Montreal, I was 2.5 years old. I remember one night, before falling asleep, one of my parent’s friend’s came over with a small brown paper bag for me. The contents of this paper bag was sugar. Of course not granulated sugar but candy.
That night started my sugar addiction. I even wrote a poem about it in my first book ‘cement covered cement, covered in pools and rarities’, and called it Enslavement.
It was a comparative peace between various drugs with alcohol and sugar. It encapsulated the various levels of addiction that humans have for sugar.
Over the last few weeks I have been giving more thought to my sugar addiction. Having loads and loads of sugar is probably one of the biggest injustices that I have done to my body, aside from smoking – which I have since quit.
Over the weekend, I took all the candy out of my office and put it in the family community bowl as a treat for everyone to have once in a while. The only thing that I have left in my office are cinnamon hearts that I found have soothed me when I’m feeling stressed.
There are so many impacts to health caused by sugar. I have listed a few articles below regarding the benefits of not using sugar.
The best advice that I can offer – as someone who has been addicted to sugar for such a long time, is to try and cut out as much as you possibly can – because it really is detrimental to one’s health. Although I wouldn’t deter anyone from having pure cocoa based chocolate.
Any personal opinions expressed in this blog solely belong to the author Rania Watts and not the Practitioner advertised in this website or social media.
https://www.purerecoveryca.com/4-benefits-of-quitting-sugar-7-ways-its-similar-to-drugs/
allowmiracles.com 