Dr. Charles Zuker: The Biology of Taste Perception & Sugar Craving
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Dr. Charles Zuker: The Biology of Taste Perception & Sugar Craving
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It should: sugar, in the way it stimulates the release of dopamine, resembles drugs of abuse.
“There is nothing programmed into our brains that makes us see a box of doughnuts and automatically want a sugary treat,” Schultz told me. “But once our brain learns that a doughnut box contains yummy sugar and other carbohydrates, it will start anticipating the sugar high. Our brains will push us toward the box. Then, if we don’t eat the doughnut,
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