The Skinny on Obesity (Ep. 4): Sugar - A Sweet Addiction
5/8/2012; 7 minutes
Sugar isn't just sweet, it's addictive. This episode explores the cycle of addiction that sugar causes in the brain, much in the same way as drugs and alcohol. (#23717)
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Fructose: Metabolic, Hedonic, and Societal Parallels with Ethanol, by Robert H. Lustig (Journal of the American Dietetic Association, September 2010)
- Public Health: The Toxic Truth About Sugar (Nature article by Robert Lustig, Laura Schmidt and Claire Brindis)
- The Fructose Epidemic, by Robert H. Lustig (The Bariatrician, June 2009)
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