Jill Wootton

Sunday Times article on how sugar can cause emotional and physical ill health.
Sofie called me over Christmas and was distraught – after thinking she was recovering well after a period of high anxiety and panic attacks, she had Training in Hypnosis felt spaced out and tearful. Following a few questions I soon realised that the escalated anxiety was down to what she had eaten. Feeling so much better Sofie had let go of the food advice I had given and tucked into trifle, chocolates and a couple of glasses of wine. Three hours later her heart was racing and beating like a drum, she felt emotional and ‘really wobbly.’

When a person has high anxiety it is likely they are going to be reactive to sugar and can suffer a whole host of related symptoms. So if you or someone you know has high anxiety they may well respond well to a change in diet – read the great Sunday Times article below to understand more. And how some big companies who interests lay with protecting and building profit, so are preventing the spread of knowledge of the damage effects sugar can cause!

Two years ago Lucy Miller, a 31-year-old fitness and diet coach from Bromley in southeast London, decided to quit sugar. Added sugar is one of the key staples in the modern diet, from sweetened cereals to soups to sauces. For Miller that meant that biscuits, cakes, sweetened breakfast cereals and even fruit juice would be on the banned list.

It was so difficult she turned to hypnotherapy to help her kick the habit. She soon suffered withdrawal symptoms, however, in the form of headaches and mild anxiety.

“I was an avid exerciser so I wasn’t overweight but I would snack on Haribo sweets and chocolate,” she said. “I was hyperactive and I found I would have a sugar crash afterwards and I always had puffy bags under my eyes.”

Miller has stuck to her new regime ever since, switching to a Paleolithic, or “caveman”, diet of unprocessed foods that she credits with boosting her energy levels and helping her complexion. “People used to tell you not to eat fat but it soon became clear to me that it was sugar that was the problem,” she said.

On average we consume more than 700g of sugar a week, either when added to drinks or when contained within Training in Hyp