Show Sugar Who's the Boss
Did you know the addictive nature of sugar rivals that of cocaine, morphine, and cigarettes? It’s no accident recovering alcoholics often turn to sugar as they cut out alcohol—it’s an easily available drug. According to a 2008 study out of Princeton University, “rats eating large amounts of sugar when hungry, a phenomenon [known as] sugar-bingeing, undergo neurochemical changes in the brain that appear to mimic those produced by substances of abuse.” In addition to the detrim