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The Most Unhappy of Pleasures: This Is Your Brain on Sugar

  • March 10, 2012
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The Most Unhappy of Pleasures: This Is Your Brain on Sugar

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  • When you eat sugar it triggers the production of your brain's natural opioids -- a key factor in addiction. Your brain essentially becomes addicted to the sugar-induced opioid release, not unlike addictions to morphine or heroin

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