I myself do not like to think about sugar or highly refined carbohydrates as an “addiction.” Just because I drink alcohol on some occasions which is rare for me does not mean I’m an alcoholic!
“SUGAR IS AN ACID”
Same with sugar, it is a potent acid or ribo-nucleic-acid, we are made of it (RNA) that’s why we crave it so much, but at the same time it can damage your pancrease eventually when we catabolize too much of it directly.
When you quit eating too much sugar; the parts of your body that need to be more alkaline becomes more alkaline rather than acidic and vise versa with acidic parts of the body that need to be more acidic or homestatic equilibrium.
It’s about awareness and education; the very real damage refined or natural sugar can do if you eat it too much of it all the time?
High carbohydrates are harmless if you don’t make it your primary source of nutrition?
I really like Dr. Fung’s analogies, we can also go too far with fasting (a tool) and being hyper-vigilant about food to the point where it becomes an obsession of black and white thinking, there is a grey area and having of an education about what causes the problem to begin with is something nobody can ever take away from you?
Sugar is a clear acidic crystalline like structure and is what carbon based life forms are made of: