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Originally Posted by T3rminator
Awesome, that's really good to hear its had a positive impact. I went off sugar about 8 years ago when I had a health scare. Nothing related to mental health though. I had a dizzy spell whilst walking home from work, doc ran a few tests, and was found to be on border line of diabetic. I then cut sugar out, pretty much cold turkey, got re-tested a couple of months later and levels were back to normal. I also drank a shed loads of green tea at the time to reverse the effect. That was also around the time when I had severe work anxiety, so I can't say it really did much for me mentally. Watch out for fruits though, I think people underestimate how much sugar they contain.
By junk I don't mean just the sugary stuff too. I put fast food into that category e.g. maccas, kfc, fish and chips etc. There are suggestions that some people turn to these "comfort food" when they start to feel down.
Same question with pot, other substances, alcohol, gambling etc...do these things cause mental health or do people use / abuse these things because they had mental health issues to begin with? The million dollar question.
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100% on those aspects highlighted. Too much fruit is not a great thing either. It isnt like Im consuming a big bag of grapes, an entire pineapple, 12 apricots and 20 peaches in 1 week. More that I am now substituting the rubbish processed options for something less processed. Something with less calories so to speak.
Junk food is also one of my weaknesses too. Definitely love my fried chicken. But know deep fried foods are a heart attack waiting to happen. I turned to junk food a lot in the past 12 months as a comforter.
With illegal substances, I would say people mostly turn to these items for social reasons to start with. But they could be using these things as a crotch to escape from their reality even for a short time. But then it becomes a vicious circle after that. Ive never been a drug user. I dabbled in it as a teenager out of curiosity, but didnt like it.