Sugar Addicted or Just Stressed Out? Study Investigates Modulatory Effects of Different Macronutrient Compositions on Serotonin in the Presence and Absence of Stress
Image 1: She has the reason she is so relaxed right in her hand... but does she know that sugar is no sustainable way of coping with stress unless you don't care that you thusly pave the way from from initial episodes of hypoglycemia over binges, to obesity and diabetes. "Sugar addiction" is a recurring theme in the blogosphere and whether it exists or not and what potential causes and treatments might be is still a matter of a partly very emotional debate. If we go by the definition of "addiction", of which the venerable Oxford English Dictionary says that it was "a condition characterized by regular or poorly controlled use of a psychoactive substance despite adverse physical, psychological, or social consequences , often with the development of physiological tolerance and withdrawal symptoms", it would be, if we had prove that sugar is a "psychoactive" substance. After all, the "adverse physical, psychological, or social consequ...