Lynne Wadsworth - The Sugar Addiction Nobody Talks About: How Emotional Pain Is Hiding in Your Food

About this episode

Lynne Wadsworth discusses the emotional roots of sugar addiction and its impact on women's health.

Lynne Wadsworth is a holistic health coach, certified wellness practitioner, and specialist in women's nutrition, sugar addiction, and perimenopause. Most women know sugar isn't good for them. They've tried cutting it out, they've done the programs, they've been through the cycles of restriction and relapse. But here's the thing nobody tells them: the sugar was never really the problem. It was always the emotion underneath it. Lynne spent years as a self-described yo-yo dieter and sugar addict — hiding English chocolate in her freezer, watching her blood pressure climb, losing entire afternoons to brain fog and migraines — before she discovered that the food was just a symptom. The real addiction was to the feelings the food was numbing. Expect to learn why sugar addiction activates the same brain chemistry as cocaine and why that makes willpower a completely useless strategy, how the modern American food system has been engineered to keep you dependent on processed foods without you ever realising it, why yo-yo dieting is physically dangerous and what it actually does to your long-term health, how unresolved grief and loneliness quietly become food addictions, why switching one…

People in this episode

Host: Asekho Toto

Guest: Lynne Wadsworth

Topics covered

• sugar addiction
• emotional pain
• women's nutrition
• perimenopause
• mental health
• dieting
• processed foods

Keywords

• sugar addiction
• emotional eating
• perimenopause
• nutrition
• mental health
• yo-yo dieting
• processed foods

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