Posted on 12/23/2008 4:43:51 AM PST by CE2949BB
Almost anything can be considered colloquially 'addictive' if you like it enough - computer games, Reese's Peant Butter Cups, reading Scientific Blogging articles and the best science blogs on the planet.
Clinical addiction is another issue, though, and Princeton University Professor Bart Hoebel and his team in the Department of Psychology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute say they have evidence that sugar can be an addictive substance, wielding its power over the brains of lab animals in a manner similar to many drugs of abuse.
So now sugar addiction can overtake "I have a thyroid condition" as the number one excuse obese people use in America.
(Excerpt) Read more at scientificblogging.com ...
Rats on amphetamines! :)
“Big Sugar” and Princeton are both on the government dole. The ultimate addiction: Other People’s Money.
I’m definitely addicted to sugar or at least sweetener. I need a “fix” of sugar or sweetener with or after every meal. I have to have a big piece of fruit after every meal or drink a diet soda while I eat. Its something I could do without, I should try to go “cold turkey”.
Seven years sober, I’m totally oblivious to beer and wine displays as I cut a beeline to the Twinkie section in the grocery store, still a hopeless addict.
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