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Originally Posted by diabetic32yrs  .... I "CRAVE" sweets and eat sweets all the time. I am talking candy sweets. I ate 10 8oz bags of hershey kisses in a 2 1/2 week time period. I don't know what to do. My body actually craves the sweet taste. Is there a pill or something I can take to take the place of the craving, to trick my body? .... |
The main reason why we eat so much carbohydrate (including sugar) is that it makes us feel good. Eating carbs boosts levels of seratonin, the feel-good neurotransmitter. Some people are highly responsive to this effect, which leads to a very powerful carbohydrate addiction. It sounds like you could be one of them. Sugar and foods containing it are very high GI, so the effect is really strong. But all carbohydrate has a similar effect.
Like with any other addiction, breaking a carb addiction is difficult. You could try going on a low-carb diet. If you are able to stick with it, the addiction will weaken and eventually go away. But most carb addicts aren't able to make this work. Various anorexients are used to help people break a carb addiction. Richard Bernstein patented his own method, using naltrexone. Here is an excerpt from the patent application.
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Therefore, provided herein is a method for controlling carbohydrate cravings in a patient, in which naltrexone is administered to the patient in low doses, preferably at specific times of day so that efficacy of naltrexone peaks before and during times of day when carbohydrate cravings are strongest, such as, without limitation, before and during meals. The described method reduces carbohydrate cravings to assist diabetics in normalizing their blood sugar.
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It is an interesting read. You can read all abut it here :
Method for reducing food intake - Patent 6972291 
