Anyone that knows me knows that I love sugar and I have often wondered "what happens to my brain when I eat sugar." Well according to a series of experiments where rats were deprived of food for 12 hours, then given access to sugary solution and regular chow for the other 12 hours, it was shown that the pattern of the rats behavior with and without the sugar was similar to that when they were exposed to drugs, such as cocaine. I found this very surprising, but it also made sense to me. For example, I absolutely LOVE Sprite or any sort of fizzy, sugary drink. Often times when I haven't had Sprite in a while (as in maybe a day or a few hours), I start to get headaches and a severe "need" to have some. In the past my parents have also given up pop for a few months just to try to stop drinking it like the "healthier lifestyle" kind of stuff. During the first month of them doing so, my mom often complained about having headaches as well. After this I have come to the conclusion that people do have sugar addictions and that sugar withdrawal is a very real thing. It is also hard to quite bad habits when you have something sweet even if it's not doing you a lot of good.
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