sugar addiction

sugar addiction

Sugar addiction has long been joked about. Most researchers, however, believed you could not get hooked on sweets and lose control over consuming them, as if they were drugs.

Sugar addiction idea is revisited now by some scientists, who compiled studies over the years. The results do not indicate that donuts are in the same category as addictive drugs like heroin, alcohol or nicotine. They do suggest that sugar addiction may be a result of some brain actions and characteristics associated with the intake of sweets, when drug addiction may overlap. The studies, mostly in animals, provide evidence that overeating sweets may share some characteristics of serious sugar addiction. Further insights may lead to new types of eating disorder treatments.

Sugar addiction is also called sugar sensitivity or carbohydrate addiction - these are all words that describe the same condition - a biochemical variation that results in a person having strongly fluctuating blood sugar levels, low serotonin, and low beta-endorphin levels. This condition is not uncommon and yet sugar addiction is so little understood. Those of us who have sugar addiction, until we learn to understand our condition, feel tremendous suffering from our inability to control our food, our bodies, our health, and our emotions.