The effects of sugar addiction and withdrawal are similar to those seen in addictions to drugs. Like drugs, sugar stimulates the reward (pleasure) centers in the brain, triggering a release of the ...
Animal data has shown significant overlap between the consumption of added sugars and drug-like effects, including bingeing, craving, tolerance, withdrawal, cross-sensitisation, cross-tolerance, cross ...
Nicole Avena, a neuroscience professor at Mount Sinai who recently wrote a book on sugar addiction. “It can produce signs of craving and withdrawal; it can produce alterations in behavior ...