Sugar addiction: is it real? A narrative review.
Br J Sports Med
; 52(14): 910-913, 2018 Jul.
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ABSTRACT
In animal studies, sugar has been found to produce more symptoms than is required to be considered an addictive substance. Animal data has shown significant overlap between the consumption of added sugars and drug-like effects, including bingeing, craving, tolerance, withdrawal, cross-sensitisation, cross-tolerance, cross-dependence, reward and opioid effects. Sugar addiction seems to be dependence to the natural endogenous opioids that get released upon sugar intake. In both animals and humans, the evidence in the literature shows substantial parallels and overlap between drugs of abuse and sugar, from the standpoint of brain neurochemistry as well as behaviour.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Banco de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Carbohidratos de la Dieta
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Conducta Adictiva
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Azúcares
Límite:
Animals
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Br J Sports Med
Año:
2018
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Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos