Thursday, September 5, 2013

Fructose certainly makes me depressed



I am 100% absolutely sure that fructose makes my depression much worse. For years I have stayed away from pears because they always made my head feel bad. This is before I figured out what depression was. Pears are high in fructose. Raisins, and apples are also high in fructose. Even though fruit is known to be healthy and such, for those like my self it is the exact opposite. F.Y.I. the sugar in honey is half fructose and for those that have jumped on the agave wagon, agave has more fructose than honey.

Since sucrose (table sugar) will be turned into half fructose and some milk sugar will be turned into fructose it is difficult to eliminate fructose from the diet. Even some vegetables have larger amounts of fructose in them. If I sit down and have an apple I will pay dearly. My head will go fuzzy and any feeling I had left in my brain is drained for days. Pretty much any fruit will do this to me. I can tell when I have had a high fructose food when my mind goes down the drain right after. This is possibly one of the main reasons I have mood swings.

Another thing fructose does is raise my hunger levels up the roof and I will binge eat my head off if I eat fruit. This leads to eating more sugary stuff that isn't fruit. Then my depression gets worse and worse. Also I get fatter and I can get all kinds of health issues from eating that way.




Fruit is a big part of nutrition for people and most people that eat a lot of fruit are diabetics and over weight. They think that they are doing good for themselves and since fructose raises hunger levels, this is detrimental to helping out people in the long and short run.

Fructose, Sucrose, and milk sugars are a major problem for depression and the addiction for these foods make it difficult to address the problem.

Taking the sugar out and taking sweeteners out will eventually stop cravings as long as you are eating enough calories. Sweetness leads to wanting more sweetness. Take the sweetness out, including chewing gum and all sweet items and the craving for sweetness will go and will be gone as long as you keep sweetness off the tongue. Once the cravings are gone you can get on with life. It is well worth enduring. Depression might still be there for me, however I know I can help it by doing this.

If I had to pick one reason why my depression can get so bad this is it.


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