Science Illustrated

Sugar makes you want more

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Sugar is better than a cocaine rush. An experiment from 2007 showed that if rats can freely choose between sugar and cocaine, they will choose the sweet stuff. Even cocaine-addicted rats were willing to skip the drugs for a little sugar water. However, other experiment­s indicate that sugar does not cause real addiction. Instead, the sweet molecules can directly affect the hungerregu­lating nerves in the brain to

make you want more.

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