Psychologist Natalie Damaskaya said today, Thursday, that the desire to eat sweets is a natural and understandable phenomenon, but it is not useful, and there are psychological reasons for eating sweets.
According to the Russian newspaper “Izvestia”, the specialist explained that if a child under the age of one and a half is traumatized, he will begin to relieve stress already in adulthood with the help of food consumption, at the same time, according to Damaskaya, when a person is tense, specific differences can be observed Like biting lips.
Damaskaya noted that from a physiological point of view, sugar is the fastest way to fill the body with energy, and it is it that allows you to create the illusion that a person has an increase in strength and happiness hormones such as dopamine and serotonin are produced.
She also attributed the inability to demonstrate self-love and loneliness to the modern version of the causes of sweet cravings, where for many people, food and especially sweets replace important psychological moments such as building honest relationships with yourself, loved ones, and colleagues.
And the nutritionist Anna Milikhina had previously indicated that many people give up sugar in order to lose weight, and added that the person in this case may begin to feel a loss of energy, because sugary foods were a source of carbohydrates for him.