Big Sugar Won't Like This Princeton Study On Addiction
Sunday, December 21, 2008 - 12:35
in Psychology & Sociology
Almost anything can be considered colloquially 'addictive' if you like it enough - computer games, Reese's Peant Butter Cups, reading Scientific Blogging articles and the best science blogs on the planet. Clinical addiction is another issue, though, and Princeton University Professor Bart Hoebel and his team in the Department of Psychology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute say they have evidence that sugar can be an addictive substance, wielding its power over the brains of lab animals in a manner similar to many drugs of abuse. So now sugar addiction can overtake "I have a thyroid condition" as the number one excuse obese people use in America. read more
Read the whole article on Scientific Blogging
More from Scientific Blogging
Related
- Sugar can be addictive, Princeton scientist saysWed, 10 Dec 2008, 7:28:48 EST
- Thinner cortex in cocaine addicts may reflect drug use and a pre-existing disposition to drug abuseWed, 8 Oct 2008, 18:42:59 EDT
- Studies improve knowledge of underlying brain changes caused by addictionWed, 21 Oct 2009, 10:17:59 EDT
- Cocaine: How addiction developsThu, 21 Aug 2008, 13:28:53 EDT
- Addiction: Insights from Parkinson's diseaseWed, 25 Feb 2009, 12:57:00 EST