This conventional product can cause strong dependence

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 Этот обычный продукт способен вызывать сильную зависимостьSugar can cause addiction, like alcohol, drugs and tobacco, say researchers from Princeton University (USA).

Scientists have been researching for several years, which studied the effects of sugar on laboratory rats.

In previous studies, experts found that rats who were fed sweetness tended over time to increase dose consumption of sugar and experience discomfort if sugar suddenly disappeared from their diet. As it turned out, rodents-sweet tooth capable of experiencing the craving to sugar and will experience periods of remission. All these phenomena are the signs of acquired dependencies.

As a result, the more rats loved sugar, the more they began to consume alcohol offered to them and the less you were inclined to examine the cages, which contained (normal rats constantly surveyed their room).

According to researchers, sugar is able to exert long-term effects on the brain (it increases the emissions of “pleasure hormone” – dopamine). In fact, sugar (at least, for rats) is able to act as a “soft drug” – that is, a substance the ingestion of which increases the odds of initiation more powerful narcotic drugs.

For example, the use of alcoholic beverages increases the chances that people in the future will drink visokogradnja alcohol, and marijuana Smoking makes it more likely subsequent use of cocaine or heroin. It is theoretically possible to assume that some people are able to purchase the same sugar addiction, experts said.

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