Our Love for Sugar — Zuker Lab
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Our Love for Sugar — Zuker Lab
Dr. Charles Zuker: The Biology of Taste Perception & Sugar Craving
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My illustrations for @livemintlounge on the science of sugar. We are wired to be addicted to sugar because historically, calories were hard to come by, and humans eat whenever they could find food (which wasn’t 3 times a day like it is today), so evolution has designed us to eat as much sugar as we can when we can find it - and unfortunately,... See more
instagram.comOur craving for sugar comes from the gut. Neurons recognize the glucose in the intestines after it has been infested and converted from sugar. They send a signal to the brain. We learn to associate foods that contain sugar even if they don’t taste like it through these circuits. We learn to associate the texture, viscosity,…