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shego1142 · 4 months ago

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I mean sugar & fat both help keep the brain running, and both are things you could definitely need from ice cream. But also like, sometimes the thing your body needs is dopamine and seratonin and idk about u but my brain thinks ice cream tastes like happy

"craving a food means your body needs something that food can offer" now what the fuck does my body need with an ice cream

#drugs mention in tags tw #thing is I don’t want to like go into a fearmongering thing about sugar bc the body DOES need sugar to live #but also! I have a horrible sugar addiction because too much sugar can rewrite the brain’s reward pathways in the exact same way cocaine can #which is insane #and also makes sugar really really difficult to cut down on once your brain associates it with dopamine #especially if you’re naturally very low on dopamine and seratonin to begin with a #as many autistic and adhd peeps are #also autistic brains have shown to just require more sugar naturally which can make finding the line of what’s enough and what’s too much #even harder!#but yea so the thing we do with our child is say is that a good that will make your body happy or your brain happy #like have you tied a food to an emotion or does your body feel like it really needs that right now #and the key here is both are valid!!!#we have to have a balance of the brain happy foods and the body happy foods #your brain is a part of you be nice to it

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