SAA - Sugar Addicts Anonymous

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jlamailbox wrote: »

I am a recovering alcoholic AND a sugar addict. I personally know addiction very well and I can tell you both are addictive. I never ate sweets when I drank, but gradually over the 33 years I am sober, I found sugar as a new way to soothe myself. It started out innocently, and then gradually became a compulsion. The cravings were nearly as strong. I was eating sugar when I didn't want to. I was sneaking it and feeling all the loathing and shame I did when I drank. Studies of the brain show that the same brain chemicals and pathways are involved in both. It's uninformed and dismissive to say sugar is not addictive...especially if you haven't lived it.

Let's see what current scientific research says about it:

http://www.clinicalnutritionjournal.com/article/S0261-5614(09)00239-8/abstract

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25205078

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20056521

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27372453