The carbohydrate-addicted child or teen typically:
would be happy to live on sandwiches, snack foods, junk food, and sweets
sometimes requests a snack or another dessert within two hours of eating a full meal that already included dessert
snacks on fruits often throughout the day
can become quite upset or irritable or may sneak food when junk food, snack foods, or sweets are denied
frequently consumes sugar-sweetened or artificially-sweetened drinks including sports drinks, powdered mixed drinks, fruit juices, fruit flavored drinks or sodas
is or may be overweight, hyperactive, and/or experiences extremes in moodiness, lack of motivation, lack of impulse control or an inability to concentrate*
often has at least one blood relative who may be carbohydrate addicted and/or has adult-onset diabetes
With physician's counsel, non-diet-related reasons for these conditions must first be ruled out.
