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This story always remind me of this interesting study done on rats, where they found sugar more tantalizing than cocaine or heroine.[0] Take it with a grain of
by meesles 11y ago
This story always remind me of this interesting study done on rats, where they found sugar more tantalizing than cocaine or heroine.[0] Take it with a grain of salt (or sugar, if you prefer), since sugar has some nutritional value, but this is a little terrifying. Look at the obese, particularly in the USA, and look at these massive buckets of soda they drink, breads stuffed with 20+grams of sugar, sweets which are literally nothing except colored sugar. The public desperately needs some education, just like how trans-fats were scared out of us 10-20 years ago.
[0] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/connie-bennett/the-rats-who-preferred-su_b_712254.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/connie-bennett/the-rats-who-pr...
- busterarm 11y agoCane is a hell of a drug.
- talles 11y ago> “is much more rewarding and probably more addictive than intravenous cocaine.” Sugar is bad alright but more addictive than IV cocaine?
- moron4hire 11y ago"The public needs education" is the absolute wrong answer to the obesity epidemic. The public has been receiving education. That sugar is bad is not news. We need to start questioning why the health and medical industries' attempts at addressing the obesity epidemic have thus far been abject failures.