ARE YOU A SUGAR ADDICT?

Answer yes or no to the following:

1.If you reach for one cookie or chip, is the bag empty before you know it?

2.Can you skip dessert but empty the bread basket—and the pasta platter?

3.Can you control your food intake during meals but lose it when you start to snack, especially on chips and crackers?

4.When you want to lose weight, is it easier to skip meals altogether rather than just eat smaller ones?

5.Are you tired all the time? Are there things you’d love to do but just don’t have the energy for?

6.Once you've had “just a taste” of bread, bagels, muffins, crackers, pasta, or rice, do you go back for a second (or third) helping?

7.Do you spend the day on a roller coaster of snacking highs and lows, hitting the doughnuts in the morning, the vending machine chips or candy in the afternoon, and the ice cream at night?

8.Do you eat healthy around other people but lose it when you’re alone?

• If you answered yes to two or more odd-numbered questions, your food addiction likely lies with sweets or salty snacks—cookies, chips, cakes—that have been carefully engineered by food scientists to keep you eating and eating and eating.
• If you answered yes to two or more even-numbered questions, you are highly susceptible to the addictive powers of white flour (which acts like a sugar during digestion).
• If you answered yes to two or more odd- and even-numbered questions (at least four total questions), you are highly susceptible to food addiction, period.