Why Does Sugar Make Us Crash???
I know you’ve all experienced it. I am talking about the up and down effect that sugar has on you after you eat your favorite sweet treat. It typically goes something like this: At first you have this intense hunger or lack of energy that immediately flashes visions of a candy bar, cupcake, soda pop, or donut into your mind. So you go for it. I mean after all, there are vending machines everywhere. Almost every single break room that I go into when doing luncheon health talks have at least one “food” vending machine and a soda machine. I used “food” purposely because there are little to no items in these vending machines that actually qualify as real food. So we consume our sweet treat, and almost instantaneously we experience a burst of energy! We think to ourselves, “man that’s just what I needed.” But then something else happens. Within a short period of time we start to notice that weird brain fog thing happening. We feel slightly confused and well, not so ener