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When nicotine leaves the body it creates an empty, insecure feeling, rather like a hunger for food. The feeling is so slight the smoker does not realize that the previous cigarette they had caused the feeling. They have another one and the empty, insecure feeling goes away. They no longer feel as low, as empty or as insecure as they did, and so end up believing there is a genuine pleasure in smoking. Yet all they are actually enjoying is the ending of an aggravation which was caused by the previous cigarette. All the tobacco industry then had to do was some product placement and advertising. Words such as ‘smooth’ and ‘satisfaction’ were used to describe cigarette smoking on advertisements. Every film and television hero was a smoker etc. As most people are aware, the body will always build up an immunity and tolerance to any drug and you therefore end up needing more and more to get the same effect. In the end a feeling of dissatisfaction is felt even when the addict is taking the drug. The nicotine companies found a way to create an additional hunger to a normal hunger. All addiction creates a hold which the addict believes is filled by the very substance which caused the hole in the first place. Junkie foods – foods which have had a great deal of their nutritional content removed and other chemicals added in their place – create a hole. Apples will not fill this hole initially; in the same way that an apple will not fill the hole nicotine has created for a smoker. This fools us into believing that fruits and vegetables and good wholesome foods don’t satisfy and that junkie foods do. But this is the trick – this is the illusion. All that’s happened is you have had an injection of your ‘food fix’ and some of the empty hole appears to have been filled. But the huge hole is only there because of the junkie foods in the first place. When we change our diet in the correct way, the hole disappears in no time at all and we feel genuinely satisfied.

Drug-like junkie foods and drinks are the real cause of the food and diet trap. They are designed to create additional hungers and feelings of dissatisfaction – the complete opposite of natural foods. The sad reality is that most people are suffering from malnutrition. In fact whenever you see someone who is overweight you can be almost certain they are suffering from this condition. When we think of malnutrition, we tend to see images of starving people in the developing world, so it’s hard to imagine that someone who eats loads of food and has so much abundance of food around them is also suffering from it. But the fact is they are and it is vital you fully understand this.