I worked psych for many years.  One of the most common characteristics of those trying to quit an addiction was sugar.  (And caffeine and smoking).  And the desire not to take responsibility for their behaviors, & for the docs to "fix" them so they didn't have to go thru the pain & consequences of their choices.  But i'm getting off point here.

After 15 tears as a secondary researcher in the health field, in 91, I did a statistical correlation between sugar consumption and degenerative disease on a world wide population base.  The degenerative disease figures per country, came from WHO and the sugar consumption came from a sugar industry marketing paper.  I used a country by country comparison and their average respective consumption rate verses disease rate.   The sugar figures were for High Fructose corn syrup and sucrose, the two most prevalent commercial sugars but did not include, dextrose lactose, maltose, honey maple syrup, molasses dried fruits or fruit juices.

Interestingly there was a 96% correlation between the two.  This boils down to the fact that the higher the sugar consumption in any country in the world, the higher the disease rate.  It took another 5 years of research to determine the links between sugar and disease.  I will make another post on that relationship.

The sugar consumption in the US in 1896 was 4.3 Pounds per person and that included sorghum, sucrose, honey, maple syrup and molasses. The consumption today is roughly 153 pounds for every man woman and child in the country, and that is for sucrose (white sugar) and high fructose corn syrup ONLY.  

Sugar of any kind, (mono or disaccharide)  drives your blood sugar up dramatically and uncontrollably into hyperglycemia and you crash 2 hours later into hypoglycemia.  This roughly, 2 hour swing from ingestion to craving is the addictive cycle.  If you get hunger pains, you are addicted.  Anyone with stable blood sugar does not get hunger pains or go into a hypoglycemic state.  

The allopathic medical profession has argued forever whether mono or disaccharide is better for you, the answer is neither.  Once they enter the alimentary canal they go directly into the blood stream within 2 minutes.  Depending upon the quantity you ingest, your system is driven into a hyperglycemic state (too high a blood sugar).   More later

Glyconutrients are essential for glycosythesis; including, many functions of the body, such as inflammation process, stem cell manufacture, immune modulation (not immune cell production, big difference), etc.  

When it comes to sugar cravings (I steer clear of the word addiction, as cravings are a biological response to an imbalance), glyconutrients (per my  experience with hundreds of clients dealing with this issue) seem to not significantly impact the biological / physical reason behind the cravings.  

If you are interested in reducing / removing sugar cravings, perhaps you would like to try what has worked in my practice.  Cleansing amounts of a good bacteria (or probiotic) that has PROVEN TO RE-COLONIZE in the digestive tract.  

significanthealing.com/nuferm.htm talks about this.  

There is one leader in the world in the area of probiotics, Czerral Wheeler of Australia.  He sells his product under a few labels.  The third party analysis indicates that this is the only probiotic that can culture foods and reproduce in the digestive tract.  

I think people in this country are addicted to shopping (and Love MONEY) more than sugar--yet most wouldn't rob a bank, because they exercise self control (NO, DUH)...so too must control...yes use your cerebral cortex to override other older parts of our brain to say NO))DUH...

Dr Dave

Yeah.  I have to agree with this one.  I have tried both, and had some bad experiences with Cocaine.  I do however, like sugar-- until after about an hour and I feel like crap.