Our bodies naturally produce powerful brain neuropeptides and hormones that regulate certain cravings. One of these chemicals, neuropeptide Y (NPY), instantly sparks our appetite for complex carbohydrates. Serum glucose levels rise and incite consequent rapid decreases and this drop initiates intense carb cravings. These cycles of craving and overindulgence are easily switched on in children already biologically primed for such cycles.
The nature of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents is a low threshold for anxiety, says Demitri Papolos MD. This can then cause an overreaction to real or perceived stressful events such as deprivation, loss, rejection, and humiliation. “Even hearing the simple word “No!” … children and adolescents with bipolar disorder often have rigid and inflexible thinking.”
This fixation for something starchy or sweet leads to behaviors that are symptoms of appetite dysregulation “that may help to define one aspect of the core syndrome of bipolar disorder in childhood,” explains Papolos. Those behaviors, he adds, include foraging (going after and finding the food), binging and hoarding.
Unfortunately, many children are sensitive to the weight-gain effects of mood stabilizing drugs and atypical antipsychotics. Some medications cause severe insatiable hunger; add to that the cravings for something known to cause weight gain and it’s a recipe for a vicious circle. Conversely, there are some meds that can act as an appetite suppressant.
The extreme urges for carbohydrate-dense food become that much more difficult to control when these fast foods are so widely available…on every street corner or in the school cafeteria. And when the child watches television, an insatiable switch gets turned on every time a commercial shows sugary cereals, cookies and ice cream—which is often.
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There are two rational explanations:
– psychiatrical drugs make people fat (even they do not eat at all) and
– in tension every person hides into little traits. Grownups can control it, kids not.
What scares me is this webpage takes it as a fact. In fact (I am from Europe) bipolar rarely bursts before 15, 18 and in fact obesity in children is closer to parents’ bad choices of lifestyle than their own choice.
You do not have to buy every shit pharmacy tells you.
May anyone assist me to with a very little issue.
A split year before, I was identified as having the candida
I wish to attempt some eating plan against Candida albicans.
Online, a lot of information about this issue.
Although ideas generally diverge. And I didn’t find the right decision for me.
Maybe the forum members will recommend a proven diet or simply a lot of tested recipes against candida?
I’ll be extremely many thanks for every assistance
Thanks a lot!
This article is very helpful. I didn’t know how bad of a problem I had before now. Thanks!
You forgot #6: Candida. We’re all born with it, but a diet rich with foods that feed candida and those which havr natural antimicrobial properties cause candida to over grow the stomach and get lodged in the liver–where it begins controlong cravings to ensure its dietary needs are met–robbing the body of essential micronutrition because the candida acts paraciticly, depriving the brain of nourishment while creating toxic byproducts as demonstrated by symptoms of mental illness. The more candida in the body, the more severe the symptoms of Mental illness. It’s a metabolic issue. Check out the research of Dr Bruce Demon, child psychiatrist with a PhD in clinical nutrition, for more information.
Get rid of the candida and you get rid of both the binge eating, carbohydrate cravings, and symptoms of severe mental illness. I did.
How do I get rid of it? I get it in my mouth from asthma medicine
I think making smarter choices for what kind of food you keep in the house helps. I try to keep an ample amount of fruits and veggies available, but sometimes we are out and I go for the bread. It is tough for sure.